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[nosey]

For the past two years I've been telling people to quit bottom bouncing for springs during the DFO's request to selectively avoid the sockeye and nobody took me seriously, I've told people at the river, online, in letters to the editor of my local paper and it was like water off a ducks back, now I put in a post telling people to wade out in water over their heads and bottom bounce for endangered runs of steelhead and everyone thinks I meant it. I guess sarcasm is just wasted on some people.

[blaydRnr]

there's a big difference between request and mandatory, so here lies the problem....you don't hear them requesting for barbless hooks or requesting for you to refrain from using bait or fishing more than an hour before dawn and more than an hour after sunset......its all political.

[Gooey]

All I know is that the current regs are full of holes which have allowed flossing to spill over onto other rivers and other target species.  I too some times fish a 3 foot leader when fishing a slow deep pool but when a guy walks in and starts bombing the hole with a betty and 12 feet of leader, I would way rather give up 6 inches of leader and have that guy banned. 

Alwaysfishin (or anyone for that matter) I always apprecaite INTELIGENT feedback or debate when I throw an idea out the.  Old Black Dog your last post offers no critial feedback, you're just a chump that calls everything down...like I said if you dont want to SHARE you experiences (wether it supports my psoition or not) then why bother typing a word?!?

This isnt an original idea, it came from a tackle shop owner.  He and I have talked at great lengths over the years and if he thinks its a good solution then I see no reason not to get behind it.  Bottom line is we have an issue and something needs to be down. 

Alwaysfishing, thanks for you thoughts.

In terms of some of the obstacles people suggested...fly fishers cold be excluded from a leader restriction.  In my eyes, leader length would be defined as hook to bottomweight.  and I dont think a split shot falling off would ever be a concern.  All I know is a leader restriction and changing the verbage of the regs from hooked in the mouth to hooked INSIDE the mouth...those 2 simple things would put a huge kink in a flossers program.

[nigglesworth]

yawn...