I owe the board an Apology

[willametteriveroutlaw]

This in not really fishing related but here goes..
I would like to apologize for the pole I started (flossing hatchery fish). Sometime I get a little carried away, I was genuinely interested in what people thought of the whole subject, but then things got a little heated and out of hand. I should have been the bigger man and let it go.
As for a little history on it from my side. I grew up in alaska right on the Kenai river fishing reds for 1 month solid every summer. Anyone who has ever fished for reds knows what it is all about. But for those that don't they don't bite, and its is all a lining fishery. That was the main run where I literally taught 20-30 of my parents friends every year how to catch them. I also have caught hundreds of chinooks and cohos up there as well on alot of different methods.
I moved to OR about 5 yrs ago and had to relearn fishing. I have been very fortunate to have a fast learning curve and over the last 3 years have been averaging 50-100 steelhead and salmon per year caught on every method out there. I made the mistake of trying to defend something that I have maybe done on 3 or 4 fishing trips in the last year.
I had no idea that people felt as strongly about it as they do about abortion. So my apologies go out to everyone who got all heated up over it, and espicially jen, who had to watch over the whole darn thing.

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[Kilgore]

I wasn't following the thread, but I respect your courage to admit and apologize

Outlaw,
Sockeye will hit a small purple yarn fly when they're in freshwater. Caught many of them this way on the Karta River.

[willametteriveroutlaw]

Keta,
I'll try that next time I am up there. I think in the Kenai, they don't though because the river is so silty. I'll try it in the Russian though.

Tie a knot in the egg loop and cut most off. A bare red hook works too. The water does have to be fairly clear. The Karta had a high tanic acid content from the muskegs but was clear (like tea).

[willametteriveroutlaw]

On the kenai we always used a red Gami and a little chunk of black yarn. Last year on the russian I slayed them on purple and blue coho flies. I thought that that was because the fish couldn't see it as well. I will defiantely pay a little better attention next time.

18"-24" leaders and slightly too heavy weight to slow down the drift. Drift through 200-300 sockeye and you will set true biters. It worked for coho too and the humpies didn't hit too often.

[ 02-17-2003, 09:39 AM: Message edited by: Keta ]