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typhoon

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Re: Almost Time For A Flossing Debate?
« Reply #15 on: June 28, 2017, 10:31:52 AM »
Close all sockeye openings in fresh water and restrict leader length to 18".
Done.
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Re: Almost Time For A Flossing Debate?
« Reply #16 on: June 28, 2017, 02:38:41 PM »
Quote from: typhoon on June 28, 2017, 10:31:52 AM
Close all sockeye openings in fresh water and restrict leader length to 18".
Done.

That's a little aggressive but that would definitely put a damper on the bouncing for Sockeye fun.

Maybe just close the river for all recreational fishing. Probably not far from that happening anyways.

I won't be surprised to see an permanent Sockeye closure and quickly followed by a complete Salmon closure.
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Re: Almost Time For A Flossing Debate?
« Reply #17 on: June 28, 2017, 05:23:30 PM »
Sockeye is not recreational fishing.

Obviously actual fishing for salmon would be closed if there are insufficient stocks.
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Re: Almost Time For A Flossing Debate?
« Reply #18 on: June 28, 2017, 06:09:59 PM »
Quote from: Fish Assassin on June 28, 2017, 08:21:33 AM
Sockeyes all taste yummy whether it's hook in the head or tail. :)

Right on. Sockeyes also didn't say you can eat me depending on fishing one way or another too. It is all rules made by the 'human nation' and it doesn't apply to them. For them, the best rule is no fishing for them at all like this year. LOL. This thread is one year too early. Next year this time, the purists can trash the sockeye flossers all you want.  ;D ;D ;D
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Re: Almost Time For A Flossing Debate?
« Reply #19 on: June 30, 2017, 11:46:37 PM »
Quote from: RalphH on June 28, 2017, 07:54:41 AM
as all non FF anglers know with compete certainty - salmon and steelhead get flossed along the full length of a fly line regardless of it's weight, diameter and sink rate ... or even if it floats for that matter. Even all steelhead caught on surface flies are flossed! Fact is fly fishing for anything but bass and carp is a great big hoax!

So fly anglers will be blissfully unaffected by a 4 foot leader regulation. You can make a 1 inch regulation and we'll floss all the fish we can catch - in your beady little dreams anyway.

RalpH; sorry, it was meant as a tongue in cheek comment, with a small element of truth as I'm sure you are aware.   I should have added a sarcasm emoticon.  I am a FF of 47 years.
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Re: Almost Time For A Flossing Debate?
« Reply #20 on: July 01, 2017, 08:03:32 AM »
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Re: Almost Time For A Flossing Debate?
« Reply #21 on: July 01, 2017, 04:38:32 PM »
Quote from: typhoon on June 28, 2017, 05:23:30 PM
Sockeye is not recreational fishing.

Obviously actual fishing for salmon would be closed if there are insufficient stocks.

Yeah it's a meat fishery. I find best 100 pound test, 11 inch red flasher, 24 inch leader, small pink hoochie with a big hook. Crank them to the boat with drag fully tight and hand balm them in the boat.

I find small hooks and trying to net them and you lose more than half.

its not much of a rec fishery even in the ocean
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