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#909934 - 10/17/14 04:06 PM Re: Flossing: It's the California way [Re: ]
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It all boils down to this - I'm right, everyone else is wrong, and anyone who disputes this is clearly a dumbfuck.

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Originally Posted By: norcalsnagger
As Coley pointed out, flossing is not illegal in AK (Sockeye) and snaggers would argue it's not illegal in the lower 48.


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#909936 - 10/17/14 04:16 PM Re: Flossing: It's the California way [Re: ]
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Originally Posted By: Banned User
Depends....

What was your intent ?

Was it a hatchery moose ?


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#909997 - 10/17/14 08:30 PM Re: Flossing: It's the California way [Re: Nor Cal Drifter]
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Originally Posted By: Nor Cal Drifter
As Coley pointed out, flossing is not illegal in AK (Sockeye) and some would argue it's not illegal in the lower 48.

I'm gonna sign off on this discussion - there's no right or wrong, just opinion, and everyone is entitled to that.
My final thought - I consider myself a very ethical angler, a great steward of the resource, and the best ally you will have as we continue to fight to save our fisheries. I also have flossed fish before - intentionally.

And yes, I used the words ethical and flossed in the same paragraph.
Dammit, I wish you bastages would just love me for who I am.

I'm out.


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#910040 - 10/18/14 12:20 AM Re: Flossing: It's the California way [Re: Direct-Drive]
Roy Otis Offline
Juvenile at Sea

Registered: 12/09/12
Posts: 114
$400 dollar rod-check
$200 dollar reel-check
Simms gear from head to toe-check
9 foot leader-check
tuft of yarn (black or purple)-check
hefty rip each and every cast after approx. 3-5 seconds-check
multiple foul hooked fish, one after another until the triumphant cry of..................it's in the face, on the head, whatever.....priceless!

The long and the short of it is this...THE FISH NEEDS TO TAKE THE HOOK, NOT THE HOOK TAKING THE FISH!
It seems easy to cast your glance on the guy with the white or yellow 7 foot broom handle rod with the oversized spinning reel, but in reality they are the minority. When you stand back and observe at the Skok, Satsop, Hump, or anywhere else where kings and silvers congregate in freshwater in our fine State, what you actually see is the first eight lines of this post. If your hucking a gob of lead and 9 foot of leader your one of them. It is remarkable to me that the same guys that you see doing the 5 second rip on salmon are the same guys that are carefully dissecting water and working hard for a bite come steelhead season. In a boat or on the bank, they fish jigs under a float, drift eggs, pull plugs and set the hook when necessary, not as a matter of routine each and every cast in hopes of finally getting one somewhere from the gill plate forward. Flossing (gentleman snagging as some refer to it) is a joke. You can dress it up and justify it any way you want but if you think it is legit or sporting (in WA), you are our of touch. Let the fish take the hook (offering) not the other way around.

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#910051 - 10/18/14 08:39 AM Re: Flossing: It's the California way [Re: Roy Otis]
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Registered: 11/07/99
Posts: 2691
Loc: Yelmish
i started noticing a lot more of those types once the gigantic runs of slimers started to take off in the puyallup. they got a lot of people interested in "fishing" and then they branched out. it seems to be an I5 corridor thing but unfortunately it's branching out.

confront them about it and they get massively offended, after all that's how they learned to fish and we must just be some damned elitists.

there's always been snaggers lurking around, especially at hatchery holes but these guys are something worse, because they're dishonest about their methods.

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#910905 - 10/24/14 12:36 AM Re: Flossing: It's the California way [Re: Chum Man]
Roy Otis Offline
Juvenile at Sea

Registered: 12/09/12
Posts: 114
Open invitation to flossers.......Move to AK or CA. Carry on.

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