05-06-2014, 06:58 PM
IWB,
Yes it probably is an oversight. The rest of us have been reading it for years so don't notice like you did. I have not seen the single hook rule of which you speak in the last few years and am not sure that I ever saw it. I have been after the F & G to limit hooks to single for salmon so I know that it has been that way. I think there are too many boat fishermen with flatfish (and treble hooks) on the main rivers that tangle the wild fish in nets and then they eventually pull the fish out of the water to get untangled since flatfish are spendy. When the fish is wild, well, you know the rest of the story. It hurts all of us in the long run when wild fish fatalities occur.
I also see folks on the SF of the Salmon with treble hooks. They snag fish after fish that way (unintentionally or so they say). The rest of us sport fishermen stand there -- honoring their "fish-on" like stool pigeons....
FR
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Yes it probably is an oversight. The rest of us have been reading it for years so don't notice like you did. I have not seen the single hook rule of which you speak in the last few years and am not sure that I ever saw it. I have been after the F & G to limit hooks to single for salmon so I know that it has been that way. I think there are too many boat fishermen with flatfish (and treble hooks) on the main rivers that tangle the wild fish in nets and then they eventually pull the fish out of the water to get untangled since flatfish are spendy. When the fish is wild, well, you know the rest of the story. It hurts all of us in the long run when wild fish fatalities occur.
I also see folks on the SF of the Salmon with treble hooks. They snag fish after fish that way (unintentionally or so they say). The rest of us sport fishermen stand there -- honoring their "fish-on" like stool pigeons....
FR
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