Wow, amazing to see this tired old thread resurrected.
Anyways, I've enjoyed my jet boat trips immensely, and really can see how not a single piece of even remotely fishable water gets missed by a skilled angler\skipper combination. Truly the most efficient means of maxing out your catch ever devised for the flow.
IMO, thats the problem. Even using a drift boat (which I do regularly) there are certain sections of holding water that you simply can't reach, and when you've done your business in a given run, you move on and oan't come back. Not so with a jet boat. Every little slot, eddy, boulder and seam is accessible for as long as you want to fish it.
With the use of jets, there is simply no where for fish to get any rest or security. They're all vulnerable to multiple encounters on any given day.
I don't pretend to be any kind of expert in this stuff, but common sense tells me that once a fish has been hooked X number of imtes 9even in the same day) that its chances of a mortal encounter with a deep hook must increase?
I don't resent those that use them, although I don't enjoy the noise and exhaust satink (especially from 2 strokes). In then end, If I had to offer advice to MoE and TC, I'd suggest that rivers like the SSS, Skeena, Lower Dean, Fraser etc that are big enough to handle the physical impacts, and have healthy enough runs to handle the pressure, should definitely allow the use of jet boats for anglers that prefer them.
Smaller flows, fragile runs, etc leave 'em alone - if you want to fish them, get out and walk like the rest of us. No one's stopping you. It appears from this thread that the whining is going both ways [}
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Gooey.