I am sorry if you took mesingling you out as picking on you...its nothing personal. Your statement about the socs should be open for a retention of 2...because some probably die after C&R...that statement BLEW MY MIND!!!! How can you justify "hooking" one spring, when you hit 5 sockeye lessening their chance of spawning.
A shot gun is as selective as flossing. If you were hunting mallards, would you take a pot shot at 1 mallard surround by canadian geese? The fact that you would see the goose slain right before your very eyes probably would be enuff for you not to take that shot...with sockeye, you slip them back into the water and your conscience is clean...who knows if they die 5 minutes later in the murky waters of the fraser or 500km up stream on the doorstep of their birth river.
Your last post says "I didnt intend on hooking 5 socs"..." im hopeing to catch a spring"... bottom line is this shot gun approach in a time when sockeye numbers are questionable...its simply unacceptable.
DFO has asked us not to floss until socs are open and if the numbers are there, they will open it for us. Can I take on every beak on the bar right now...no, can I change your mind....probably not. But if my ranting makes 1 or 2 other guys on this board change their minds and not floss when they are endangering socs they cant even keep...well then I think I have made 1 small step forward.
What have you done lately???
PS during the stanley cup riots, would you have looted one of the stores that the rest of the mob was plundering? If your answer is no, then you cant justify flossing now by saying Cheam is out there raping the system.