4TH OF JULY PANGUITCH PARTY

[Riverdogs]

LOL, I've only been smoked by salmonids more than once in a day when fishing fluorocarbon leader only twice. Once was fishing for large grayling and bows in Alaska with a 6 wt rod and 3 x leader. Ran into a bind of King Salmon 15-25 lb range. Hooked into about 10 but only landed 2 or 3. Another time I was fishing the early run of XL silvers below a waterfall in class 4 rapids with an 8 or 10 lb flourocarbon leader only. Only caught 1 out of about a dozen of those bright 14-16 lb bullets. If I had someone to net for me downstream maybe I would have gotten 2-3 if they could mange the net in such turbulence.. Tigers in Stillwater LOL my friend but no comparison. If you're happy with giving up some of the biggest fish you hook into each year keep doing what you've been told. No reason to adapt.