Sailor Bar Salmon Chasing

[Buddy]

Don't know who this is, but it was taken at the top of the big island.

[Bill Kiene semi-retired]

Not a "Half=pounder".........

[Terry Thomas]

Cal Tip?
I keep the number in my cell phone and have called in a couple of times. They have been good about getting back to me to try and correct the problems.
1-888-334-2258

[chapmag]

I had the misfortune of hooking a salmon while fishing for steelhead on the Feather River last fall. I was targeting steelhead at the riffle by the cement plant.

Once I hooked it I had to land it. I tried to break it off, but 12# Maxima (for the big steelhead I'd hoped to hook) and the spey hooks by design don't give up easily.

I got a nasty note from another fisherman who saw this and accused me of breaking the law and targeting salmon.

Besides just not fishing when there are salmon in the river, how do you keep from hooking them while steelheading? Thanks.

[Ned Morris]

Not cool at all.

Don't know who this is, but it was taken at the top of the big island.

[Scott V]

I had the misfortune of hooking a salmon while fishing for steelhead on the Feather River last fall. I was targeting steelhead at the riffle by the cement plant.

Once I hooked it I had to land it. I tried to break it off, but 12# Maxima (for the big steelhead I'd hoped to hook) and the spey hooks by design don't give up easily.

I got a nasty note from another fisherman who saw this and accused me of breaking the law and targeting salmon.

Besides just not fishing when there are salmon in the river, how do you keep from hooking them while steelheading? Thanks.

What you wrote is what makes me upset about people jumping to conclusions. Imagine if someone called Cal Tip and an officer came out and gave you a hard time and possibly arrested you for something that you did not do on purpose. You would have to prove that what you did was correct and not wrong, just like the guy in the picture above. I hope I never hook into a salmon, because I would hate to get put down by people on a board for something I did not try to do.

[OceanSunfish]

What you wrote is what makes me upset about people jumping to conclusions. Imagine if someone called Cal Tip and an officer came out and gave you a hard time and possibly arrested you for something that you did not do on purpose. You would have to prove that what you did was correct and not wrong, just like the guy in the picture above. I hope I never hook into a salmon, because I would hate to get put down by people on a board for something I did not try to do.

I agree.

Honestly, posting this picture and implying some sort of illicit activity without getting all the facts, is kind of slanderous.

[DFrink]

What you wrote is what makes me upset about people jumping to conclusions. Imagine if someone called Cal Tip and an officer came out and gave you a hard time and possibly arrested you for something that you did not do on purpose. You would have to prove that what you did was correct and not wrong, just like the guy in the picture above. I hope I never hook into a salmon, because I would hate to get put down by people on a board for something I did not try to do.

Seriously, sometimes people get a little high and mighty on this board (Not complaing about the board because I really like it and the people here have always been very helpful). I try not to say anything, but sometimes it just gets old.

[Ed Wahl]

You last three were reading my mind. That could be just one frame of an innocent incident.

Ed

[speyfool]

I'd have to agree. Who knows if he accidentally caught him and couldn't break it off.

Although, I sometimes wonder why people bring a fish up in what looks like a few inches of water instead of landing them somewhere better. I hate seeing what is supposed to be a released fish bouncing around on the rocks or a few inches of water.

But again, I don't know what took place before this to cause the fish to be there. Wasn't there to witness it. Maybe the fish ran itself aground in the shallow riffles.