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What do you guys thing about snagging salmon.
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I personally cant stand it. I know people say they are going to die anyway but they SPAWN before they die. We need to preserve our future crop of salmon so we can enjoy the fight and natural beuty of a strong salmon run. Plus it makes the fish very line shy and less likely to actually bite.
weak, and in most places illegal.
Not Sporting.
Acceptable only in survival situations. Other than that, only slobs snag salmon in my book.
NO!
I've snagged over a thousand salmon in the last ten years. I've never kept a salmon that I have snagged. Sometimes it just happens. I snagged 9 silvers one afternoon. I just couldn't get them to take a fly. When you know where they are holding, you put the fly where they are. If they don't take, sometimes bad things happen to good flies.
In Ak sometimes the pinks are so thick that there are places that are unfishable because the fish are so thick that you snag a humpy as soon as your fly hits the water.
I'm not a fan of snagging deliberately, although its legal in the salt, before the salmon hit the fresh water in SE AK.
I think its kind of like shooting fish in a barrell.
Not very highly.
Since this was posted in "More Freshwater" I presume you are talking about snagging on freshwater lakes like Lake Michigan where salmon are unable to reproduce.
I am a proponent of snagging on these fisheries. The fish are stocked solely to support sport fishing. They are snagged only when they return to their stocking streams at the very end of their life cycle. Snagging allows them to be caught and eaten by those who choose to do so just before they die and pollute the stream. Although, this isn't everyone's favorite way to fish, there are thousands of people who enjoy it for the action and the food.
Those who think it is easy either have never tried it or have had exceptionally good fortune. I have seen thousands of people line the streams during snagging season and have rarely seen limit catches by anyone. I have also waded those streams fly fishing for trout and had to trudge through nearly three feet of dead and wasted salmon carcasses on the bottom of the river.
I do not approve of snagging any fish. It is true that once the Female spawns it dies,the Jacks will turn black and the flesh gets soft. On Kings the nose will turn and close. I asume you are from Michigan. Steelhead and Salomon do not generally reproduce outside of the fish hatchery,that is why there are so many Fish Weirs along the river system. They pull the eggs and milk the males. Sad but true. There are very few, "true" wild Salmon or Steelhead in the Great Lakes. Fact of life, snagging is not going to hurt the fishery.About 15% of the fish reach spawning grounds.The rest spawn on reefs and small streams and creek that dry up before there is any chance of fertilization or hatching.
Snagging is for people who dont want to put any time and effort into their hobbie. Salmon do naturally reproduce here too. Yes there are alot of hatchery fish but there are also alot of natural fish that dont have the clipped fin. I would say that on the rivers that i fish 90% of the people fishing are snagging or lining fish. I just think that snagging should be monitered more closely. Maybey if there were less snaggers then the number of naturally produced fish would go up. At least when a fish is legally caught it was the fish who made the mistake of biting.
I grew-up in a former 'snagging hot-spot'-Manitowoc,Wisconsin. During the early to mid '80's, from early Sep. to late Nov., the entire W coast and Westerly L.Mich. trib.'s were choked with "sportspeople" from every state in the geographical US-for this purpose only and leaving in their wake heaps of trash,mile upon mile of mono and tons of lead in and surrounding their "sporting pursuit". This "sport" has since been[for the past 20+ years]an illegal activity and I hope NEVER rears it's unsporting and disgusting head again.
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Acceptable only in survival situations. Other than that, only slobs snag salmon in my book.
weak, and in most places illegal.
Not Sporting.
NO!
I think its kind of like shooting fish in a barrell.
Not very highly.
I personally cant stand it. I know people say they are going to die anyway but they SPAWN before they die. We need to preserve our future crop of salmon so we can enjoy the fight and natural beuty of a strong salmon run. Plus it makes the fish very line shy and less likely to actually bite.
I've snagged over a thousand salmon in the last ten years. I've never kept a salmon that I have snagged. Sometimes it just happens. I snagged 9 silvers one afternoon. I just couldn't get them to take a fly. When you know where they are holding, you put the fly where they are. If they don't take, sometimes bad things happen to good flies.
In Ak sometimes the pinks are so thick that there are places that are unfishable because the fish are so thick that you snag a humpy as soon as your fly hits the water.
I'm not a fan of snagging deliberately, although its legal in the salt, before the salmon hit the fresh water in SE AK.
Since this was posted in "More Freshwater" I presume you are talking about snagging on freshwater lakes like Lake Michigan where salmon are unable to reproduce.
I am a proponent of snagging on these fisheries. The fish are stocked solely to support sport fishing. They are snagged only when they return to their stocking streams at the very end of their life cycle. Snagging allows them to be caught and eaten by those who choose to do so just before they die and pollute the stream. Although, this isn't everyone's favorite way to fish, there are thousands of people who enjoy it for the action and the food.
Those who think it is easy either have never tried it or have had exceptionally good fortune. I have seen thousands of people line the streams during snagging season and have rarely seen limit catches by anyone. I have also waded those streams fly fishing for trout and had to trudge through nearly three feet of dead and wasted salmon carcasses on the bottom of the river.
I do not approve of snagging any fish. It is true that once the Female spawns it dies,the Jacks will turn black and the flesh gets soft. On Kings the nose will turn and close. I asume you are from Michigan. Steelhead and Salomon do not generally reproduce outside of the fish hatchery,that is why there are so many Fish Weirs along the river system. They pull the eggs and milk the males. Sad but true. There are very few, "true" wild Salmon or Steelhead in the Great Lakes. Fact of life, snagging is not going to hurt the fishery.About 15% of the fish reach spawning grounds.The rest spawn on reefs and small streams and creek that dry up before there is any chance of fertilization or hatching.
Snagging is for people who dont want to put any time and effort into their hobbie. Salmon do naturally reproduce here too. Yes there are alot of hatchery fish but there are also alot of natural fish that dont have the clipped fin. I would say that on the rivers that i fish 90% of the people fishing are snagging or lining fish. I just think that snagging should be monitered more closely. Maybey if there were less snaggers then the number of naturally produced fish would go up. At least when a fish is legally caught it was the fish who made the mistake of biting.
I grew-up in a former 'snagging hot-spot'-Manitowoc,Wisconsin. During the early to mid '80's, from early Sep. to late Nov., the entire W coast and Westerly L.Mich. trib.'s were choked with "sportspeople" from every state in the geographical US-for this purpose only and leaving in their wake heaps of trash,mile upon mile of mono and tons of lead in and surrounding their "sporting pursuit". This "sport" has since been[for the past 20+ years]an illegal activity and I hope NEVER rears it's unsporting and disgusting head again.
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