This is a challenge for you fly fisherman. Explain Flossing. We Fly Fish for steelhead and Salmon using the Flossing method with a troutbead.

Thought that was the nasty stuff you run between your teeth after eating!

Why "floss fish" for salmon and steelhead? Because the fisher is not good enough to get them to bite their presentation.

Flossing is a method of fishing that catches fish without getting them to bite. You take your standard gear and set up a super long leader. Both ends are weight just enough so that they will stay low in the water. When you cast out, you simply pull back hoping that line has went through the open mouth of whatever fish you are fishing for. The hook then catches the fish without ever having the fish even know that you were fishing for them.

It is a technique that I will not use here because I think it is no better than snagging. I might do it in places where the fishery supports it and there are tons of extra fish to be had just because but if I can't get a fish to BITE my presentation then I don't need to catch them. I would do it as catch and release only though. Some states have made rules that have basically made flossing illegal anyway. In Oregon a salmonoid and steelhead is not legally hooked unless it from the inside of the mouth.

Now if you are using a trout bead on normal gear and fishing it correctly then you are at least trying to get a fish to bite it.

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