riverman wrote:
Fact, or myth?

--riverman


About a decade ago, I was fishing a particularly heavy run of chinook
salmon. The bodies were so thick that you would constantly foul-hook
them. I resorted to using flies tied on a soft wire hook that would
bend open if I gave a steady hard pull. That way I wasn't constantly
re-rigging after snapping off a fin-hooked fish. I had to play
fair-hooked fish more carefully, but I was catching enough that I didn't
much care if I lost one.

Pete Collin