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Jay,

Isn't ALL salmon fishing, fishing in spawning rivers? Unless you go sea fishing for salmon, you're fishing for fish that are on their spawning run. The size of the river can hardly have any significance.

As I have said before regarding spawning fish: you decide whether it's ethical to fish for them or not. Personally I prefer not to, but I don't condemn those who do as long as they abide the rules and laws. And in general the fish will see more hardship during their run than you can offer them with a hook and line. These fish seem to be fine and swim readily when released. I don't think we need to worry.
And as far as I know the Wisconsin salmon are landlocked Pacific salmon, and will die after they have spawned - so as long as we release them unharmed to continue their task, I have a hard time imagining that this does any damage.

Regarding the flies, I have fished for salmon using two Icelandic Snelda's on one line, and if that is fly fishing, then this is too.

Martin

MIke,

Those are some nice fish! Great to see some pictures from that famed river. Thanks for sharing.

Martin

Submitted by jay on

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Why did you put this video in here? Fishing in the small spawning rivers is irresponsible and not sportmanlike. And by the way...the flies do not really look like flies!

Submitted by Jan Korrubel on

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Hullo Martin,

Great to make contact again after all these years - when you took me sea trout fishing off Copenhagen when I was in Denmark for business in December of 2000. So sorry to hear about your fishing instability - your message is well-read and taken on board!

All the best,

Jan Korrubel
South Africa.

Submitted by Stephen Shultz on

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Excellent. Keep up the good work! The old saying goes "If you do what you love for a living...you'll never work a day in your life"....

Submitted by Lyle Hodge on

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I am looking for a tieing book with the Prince of Darkness in it. Does anyone know the name of the book so I can buy it. As for all your comments I have tied it in many different combinations and found it to be most effective in the spring when the trout are still running deep.

Erik,

And you would of course immediately break off the fish of a lifetime if you were in a similar situation? No, sorry you wouldn't fish at all if the "risk" was there of hooking such a fish! Situations like this happen - a salmon takes a nymph meant for a grayling, a barracuda takes a bonefish fly. What to do? Fight it or break it off? Most anglers fight it. You may choose differently.

This fish might have had a rough time, and it might have been handled too long, but as far as I can see it does swim actively back to the depths, and will most likely be there to be caught another day.

Let's realize it: sticking a hook in a fish, fighting it for a long time, photographing it and releasing it is not something the fish would choose to experience - if it had any influence on its own fate.

If you don't want to see fish suffer, you either fish heavy gear and kill all you catch - or don't fish at all!

Martin

Submitted by Erik 1737246336 on

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Beautiful fish but completely worn out after a far too long 'fight' on too light tackle. Next 5 minutes of handeling the fish in front of the camera.. :-(

Submitted by Dan f Lux on

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Mr .Joergensen
Thank you for the reply .
Good to know that this article is, after you added a stamp "This is For Fun" not to take for serious!
The reality is just as you described it ! That's why Flyfishing tackle is as expensive as it is,at least 500% overpriced!
Well ,i hope that in the future articles like this one will be recognizable after the first letter so most people have not to to read the rest wasting time and can go straight to a serious one.
Sorry for my english writing skills,in my live i never had the opportunity to study english .
However greetings and tight lines to all the GFF staff.

Submitted by Gary on

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Hey Murray I appreciate your comments but its easy to pass along something you love to do. I am glad you enjoy the site and I hope to share some water with you this upcoming season.

Submitted by Lyle Hodge on

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Excellent layout and pictures. I had a prince of darkness nymph that used black and white biots and my tieing instructions got lost or destroyed. Anyone know where I can find the instructions.

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I am like you I just tie what I know works and the simpler the better. I tie the woolly in several color schemes and they are my go to fly up here in Saskatchewan, Canada

Dan from Luxembourg,

For you and other people's sake I have now added a stamp and a declaration on these articles that they are irony!

Take off the serious steel rimmed glasses and put on the funny blue ones with a mustache underneath them, look in the mirror, laugh and read the article again, and then tell me that you still seriously mean that anybody would have written this and meant it!?

Really?

Martin

Dan from Luxembour,

Have you ever heard the term "irony"?

So you really, seriously think that I'd write articles like these in dead seriousness?
It must be my lousy writing skills that aren't up to the task.

THIS IS FOR FUN!

Read it again, this time with your "funny-glasses" on...

Martin

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