Pinware River - Salmon on the Hitch 

Love a hitch take, thanks for watching!

Love the rough rivers like this, makes it all the more fun.

Caught a lot of flack from commenters on this lol. Nets arent commonly used in Newfoundland and Labrador, but youre right that they come in handy. Bringing the fish in before played out ensures a healthy realease. Thanks for watching!

Thanks, buddy!

@@AngryGaper your welcome very much...

2 minutes at max is a bit short for an 8-10lbs fish but thanks for your opinion. Dip nets are very rare in NL, we are just products of the fishing culture we have been brought up in.

Lol you are too kind! To catch salmon on the Pinware you don't have to be a good fishermen, you have to be a billygoat ;)

Lol thanks. Fair enough, not very common to use nets around there surprisingly.

@@AngryGaper Never touch the line. Beach the fish and grab the tail calmly

@@CONEHEADDK No where to beach the fish here, all bedrock and over 2m deep right off the bank. Thanks for the comments though.

Hey thats me. Been called worse by better thanks for watching lol.

@@AngryGaper you must admit your being a bit of a Muppet ?

@@danmac5510 Call me Kermit buddy he was always my fav.This is how I was shown how to do it by a very experienced angler on this river. The pinware is very deep to the bank and falling in would pose a significant risk. End of the day, not that big a deal but it definitly rustles a few jimmies.

@@AngryGaper If you get "enough" fish, I can understand the whateverness. Where I'm from, some people don't get a sea trout or a salmon a year, and then you don't fuck up while "helping them", without the mood changing a lot very fast..

@@CONEHEADDK On this river, its common to release your C&R limit of 3. I fish many rivers in other parts of Canada where hatching one or two salmon a season is a "good year". At the end of the day, we are out fishing for the enjoyment of the outdoors, and nothing is overly serious or consequential.

lol Im guessing you've never caught and serious salt water fish ? Its called ''leadering'' its done by top guides everyday in the salt for pelagic fish ,,ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-9FOUkR0Uoeg.html just google it to see a million examples on fish that swim faster, weigh more and have insane agility , On top of that some of the best steelhead guides ( steelhead fly fishing is done mostly single barbless, barbs, doubles, etc are illegal in b.c) do it,, ed ward the literal creator of the skagit head does it....Dec hogan (its on the cover of his book) and so on. People who live off catching and landing similar salmonids..... Personal i dont do it often, but im not afriad to do it. In most fly fishing contests for makos tarpon etc its the way to score a land.. Mako sharks can jump 20 feet and swim 40 mph. see for yourself ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-EVo3QwkIFTE.html

@@MichaelPhillips-jw4bj lol your self. No matter how many guides or "gods" that do something, doesn't make it right to do, and especially not under other circumstances. I've seen many fish lost by people, who were doing "as we always do", where there had been better ways to do it. That something works out some times, doesn't prove the quality of it at all.

@@CONEHEADDK Man oh man, do people ever get excited about this. I could understand if it was poor fish handling, but all we are risking is loosing a fish. here will be another salmon in the pool to hook. You are going to remove the hook and release the fishanyway. Often times we dont even tail the fish just bring it in close and pluck the barbless hook out and the fish is on its way.

I never said it was hard to release larger fish hahaha. Sorry that you don't like how we handled the fish. Like I said before it's not common to use nets here lol we don't own one.

@@AngryGaper i didnt mention the handling specific, just saying buy a rubber net and land more fish:)

Lmao, give me a damn break.