Current River on 2/19/16

[fishinwrench]

5 minutes ago, Ham said:

I haven't. I don't sight fish trout.

You traveled 200 miles, the water is crystal clear and the bigger fish are holding tight in specific lies and won't move an inch to take a fly.....

Ham drives home with no smell on his hands because he's just too regal to participate in such lewd techniques as "sight fishing".   He is happy for a day of badly needed casting practice though.  

[DainW]

Is sight fishing frowned upon here or something? IMO there's nothing more challenging than sight nymphing a big, spooky fish (as long as you don't snag it of course). Is there something unethical about it that I'm missing?

[Mitch f]

Don't care what anyone says, if you're using a bright pink jig that can plainly be seen in 6-7 FOW with a huge treble, and watching it drift down by a big brown shadow and snag it, don't be thinking you're a great fisherman and brag on FB, you're a dork, plain and simple.

Every trout park has a "Hero" that has his picture posted all over the cork board holding big Browns. There was an old man who was the local expert at Montauk, I believe, who used a white marabou  jig and did the same thing. 

[DainW]

I get that Mitch, but it's a little different than throwing flies you can't see at a fish you can and watching for a strike don't you think? 

[Mitch f]

2 minutes ago, DainW said:

I get that Mitch, but it's a little different than throwing flies you can't see at a fish you can and watching for a strike don't you think? 

Absolutely

i was responding to other posts, I think we posted at the exact same time

[jpb2187]

12 minutes ago, Mitch f said:

Don't care why anyone says, if you're using a bright pink jig that can plainly be seen in 6-7 FOW with a huge treble, and watching it drift down by a big brown shadow and snag it, don't be thinking you're a great fisherman and brag on FB, you're a dork, plain and simple.

I kinda feel like most people looking like this while fishing were dorks...

HA!

[DainW]

Gotcha. I was kind of just wondering though, I mean the way Ham and Wrench were talking about it, it's almost as if sight fishing is looked down on, even the kind I'm talking about. Just wanted to get people's thoughts on that, if there's something I'm missing?

Also, yes JPB, safe to say I'm a pretty big dork lol. 

[Ham]

Not really a value statement on my part. I don't sight fish trout and I have never thrown repeatedly at a trout trying to goad him into biting. Just saying that not everyone does that.

you're a lowlife if you snag gamefish. I know that in Alaska lots of folks snag salmon. Maybe if I'm ever in that part of the world I'll see things their way and snag like a local, but I doubt it. 

[fishinwrench]

Spawn run Salmon don't eat.  If you catch one you snagged him.  The fact that one is hooked in the mouth means nothing.  They swim with their mouth open 1/2 the time so you're just as likely to snag it in the mouth as anywhere else.  More likely actually, given the fact that they face upstream and your fly is being pulled downstream.  

[joeD]

No salmon in Missouri. But, if there was, but there's not, but if there was, but there's not, but if there was, but there's not...............,,,,...b.........the............n...,,,,, .....b...... ............... ...........n.................... Not......

The morality of trout fishing . And people who buy and wear expensive and use expensive gear are portrayed, as usual, neccesarily, as no nothing poseurs.  "Plain 'ol folks" condescension at its best.

Remember, no laws were broken. And the MDC doesn't care.