So who's Salmon is it?

Lol. 
Not uncommon to see some asshat snag and keep another dudes legally caught salmon.

The Sac River, Feather, and American have a shitload of shitbags salmon fishing right now. Avoid the crowds.

+1 love the crowded fishing. Watch people lose there cool from getting each other's line, arguments, the screaming.bank angler had no right to the fish

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Sad.

Could care less.

And all that for what was probably a smoker.  I live in the middle of this combat fishing shit, and that's why I prefer salmon fishing in the ocean. 

Doesn't matter what we think about it but I still would have liked to see 'someone' try & call out the "older shore angler". Maybe next time. Just for the fun of it.

& cue the banjo's......

"Hello Caltip, there's a gentleman down here on the river hucking big hooks to illegally snag salmon and he's already got one belly hooked fish on his stringer."


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"Hello Caltip, there's a gentleman down here on the river hucking big hooks to illegally snag salmon and he's already got one belly hooked fish on his stringer."


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Funny you should mention that. There was a DFG boat on the water checking people's catch earlier that day. They even took the head off a hatchery fish.

So who is the rightful owner of the salmon? Is it the boater that hooked the salmon in the mouth, but did not manage to land it, or the older shore angler who foul hook the salmon in the belly but landed it with the help of another, or nobody's because it was not caught by angling and landed by the same angler?

Good question.
The answer depends on a number of factors.
Like, how much meth was consumed by the older shore angler within 24hrs of snagging said salmon. Another similarly-enforced rule would involve the amount of alcohol consumed by the boat angler and what type of weapon they were packing (knife, firearm, etc). And like baseball, the tie goes to the runner...whoever can run faster gets to keep the fish.

So who is the rightful owner of the salmon? Is it the boater that hooked the salmon in the mouth, but did not manage to land it, or the older shore angler who foul hook the salmon in the belly but landed it with the help of another, or nobody's because it was not caught by angling and landed by the same angler?

Good question.
The answer depends on a number of factors.
Like, how much meth was consumed by the older shore angler within 24hrs of snagging said salmon. Another similarly-enforced rule would involve the amount of alcohol consumed by the boat angler and what type of weapon they were packing (knife, firearm, etc). And like baseball, the tie goes to the runner...whoever can run faster gets to keep the fish.

 

You're hilarious Pat.

That's Bullsh*t, even if the banker DID net the salmon, the method he used to land it (Snagging) is illegal and he should have thrown it back. Common courtesy is that he should have netted it, plier'd both lures out, then handed the fish to the boater, the minute he cut the line he is being a d*ck..

Sometimes I really hate people...

I still stand by my opinion that neither of them legally landed that fish... That'd be like foul hooking a fish as a way to land it. Granted it wasn't the boaters intention, but intentions only go so far. He still didn't land the fish....

The fish was landed illegally, and therefore taking it (technically) was illegal.

The fish was landed illegally, and therefore taking it (technically) was illegal.

Agreed, if the snagged had of unhooked his hook and thrown it back in the water, THEN the boater landed it, it would be legal.

I fished Hazel St one time and learned one thing from watching those idiots. Never ever bring a knife to a gunfight.