Snagging Salmon in Alaska! {LEGALLY!}

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One of the few places to LEGALLY snag fish for meat harvesting is the sockeye run in Seward. This is a state hatchery supported fishery. It is a blast and a great way to provide meat for families for the winter.
EVERY fish we snag is harvested for food!! Most of the meat harvested on this trip was shared with needy people in remote villages that use the meat all winter long.

#Fishing #Alaska #salmon #sockeye

*We often practical ethical catch and release. However, eating is part of life. We never waste any fish we harvest.

[matthoffman]

I use this technique for water skiers in Illinois.

[tiredredneck]

I live in ontario canada on the ganaraska river and people think they can fish the lake run salmon and trout like this....not cool

[ethancoles]

This is a legal type of fishing as long as you are in the right spot (in this case Seward Alaska off Nash road) and as long as you have a license, it's not just a subsistence fishing and it is actually really fun and you legally have to keep whatever you catch so you can't put the snagged fish back to die.

[KodiakGuy]

For anyone wondering you have to check if it is legal at different places or it is legal but in some places it is illegal (yes I know I’m late)

[ArcherBowman]

Read the regulations, people! Hard for Fish & Wildlife to use us as a management tool if we don't follow the damn rules!

If the rules say snagging is a legal method of harvest, then stop bashing people who follow the rules! Has nothing to do with ethics. If you don't like it, don't do it!

Bunch of antis in the hunting and fishing community. Just go to bed if you can't support legal harvest.

[boredvet]

I can't be around that many people. Especially if I'm trying to fish and enjoy it

[wildnorthadventures]

You get a life sentence in Michigan if you even have that leaded treble in your possession !! 😂

[chrishyson]

Brutal fishing ...should be embarrassed lol

[temujinbear]

😂 people virtue signal. I murder fish much nicer than this guy. 😂 reading comments in snagging videos is a new favorite passtime.

[indicus]

Fly fishing on the kenai river every summer is one of the biggest highlights to my life, fish on man

[tiredredneck]

That said I believe in subsistence fishing!! Always fill the freezer!!! Sweet footage man!

[lovefish]

Right on brother! Don't mind the haters. They have no idea what they are talking about. We ha e already dri en down there twice in the last 2 weeks from fairbanks and might be making a 3rd trip next week. Or the Russian river.

[benjamingriffin]

And a giant bear attacks and kills all the fishermen for ruining thier fishing grounds!😮😮😮stoopid humans

[mittenmof]

My grandpa had us doing this when I was like 6 in Michigan years after his passing I learned it wasn't the right way 😂

[FISHGEEKDAVE]

That 20 cent snap swivel bends out immediately if he yanks a King 😂😂😂

[Dafa-rl]

This is called ripping where I come from. Highly illegal and could go to jail for doing it. Our rivers used to be abundant with salmon. And because of methods like these the salmon is now endangered because people got greedy. That is not fishing

[WDFishing]

I wouldn't even think of it as a skill to let a hook float into a fish

[carloshayesmusic]

It’s illegal to keep fish like that here in bc

[ClintBice]

Rock on man!.love this fishing industry here..
Foe those complaining..our state plants this fish so we can have food to eat..and also enjoy the art of snagging for us..legally..
If we tried to explain to the others why this is so important to us ..they wouldnt underatand..

[magnump.i.]

I love this lure. The salmon can't resist it😮