Interesting Sockeye Opening

Floss and release study I guess.
What's the mortality rate when hooked in the cheek vs. the mouth.
 
What is flossing? Is it snagging? All I know is that it's negative. I hear people talk about it, but I'm not a river fisher.

thx
 
casting a lure in front of fish in the river , intentionally
trying to hook them in the yap when they are not biting.

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Sockeye in a river will rarely bite anything.
Flossers hurl out a bouncing betty with a 15-20' leader and as the line drifts downstream, fish swimming upstream will end up with the line in their yap and after it 'flosses' their teeth they usually end up with a hook in the cheek. Always the opposite cheek to the shore being fished.
 
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