On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:25:53 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

Curious, did you have many foul hooked fish or fish hooked outside the
mouth? On rivers with lots of fish in them, doing the above would, in
my experience, result in lot's of foul hooks. Even without "blind
setting", dead drift nymphing (and other subsurface techniques)
through runs with reasonably dense fish populations results in not-so-
rare foul hookups. The main legal method for catching sockeye in
Alaska is to "snag" them in or near the mouth with a fly.

Hi, Jon. I get more foul hook-ups on the Rapid than anywhere else. I
think it is because there are so many fish. When the leader touches
one, I set the hook snagging it. *OR*, I'm just a little too slow in
setting the hook on a strike. I know for every fish I have taken on a
dry I have missed twice as many rises. A late hook set on a rise can
cause a foul hook-up.

There is nothing quite like a 20 inch brook trout or landlocked salmon
that is foul hooked.

Dave