What is snagging????

[Ty]

The act of "intentionally" and I emphasize "intentionally" attempting to hook a fish by mean other than cooercing the fish bite lure or bait.

Just because a fish is not hooked in the mouth doesn't mean that it it didn't attemt to attact the lure or bait w/ it mouth and or it may have attacted the lure w/ it's body.

I read alot of threads on here suggesting that because a fish is hooked outside the mouth that it was flossed.

I assure you that fish are often "foul hooked" even though they ligidimately attacked the lure or bait. They should be released and hooking by means outside the mouth should be avoided if possible.

I never fished w/ bait much for the first five years for salmon and steelhead, and still today do not like the extra drag that bait gives a drift presentation.

I used to peg my corkies drift fishing and even my beads when rainbow fishing. After watching beads pegged vrs free on the leader I am under the influence that if you are searching for a natural "drift", I advise not peggin' corkies, especially small ones and esmpecially when fishing mutiple corkies.

I am so tired of hearing people decaring a fish snagged by means of drift lure w/o bait defined as flossing, not always the case.

Another point I would like to illistrate is that "tight lining" is not nessisarily flossing or snagging. I have had great success in Alaska and Oregon for steelhead, coho, and chinook in a wide variety of situations.

[Fast Water]

What is the difference in presentation that you have seen with pegged and unpegged corkies?

I have a habit of pegging my corkies, especially in slower/deeper water. I've always wanted to know for sure where my corkies are.

:smile:

[blacktail519]

Hey there TY,
You say you recommend not pegging your corkys.
I have always pegged them thinking that my corkys would float to far up my line away from my hook initiating less hook ups. But you say its better not to? I will try it. Thanks

[Fshklr]

Toe-mae-toh....Toh-mah-toe.
I have used both depending on the drift, depth, and flow. Both work well. I use the pegged version when using the bait corkie combo.

[DJFISHS2XS]

Ty
please explane more about tight lining, There are some guys up here that use jigs dressed with feathers, but they leave them sitting on the bottom with the poles high, they set when the fish swims into the line, these guys are snagging in my opinum, but theres not much the game warden can do.(leagle hook, fish hooked in/near the mouth) This is not a flame is just I never heard the term tigh lining, but it seems to describe the jig/bottom deal better then flossing...DJ