Dammit, You Guys! If a fish is hooked in the mouth, it's legal, simple as that. I challange anybody to prove me wrong. Show me where it says that I can't keep a fish that is hooked in the mouth. Lining is not snagging. If a fish is hooked in the mouth, you can keep it. Final! If you look at 99% of the fish caught boondogging on the Cowlitz, the hook is in the fishes mouth, but it has penetrated in from the outside. Is it wrong to fish like that? I don't know, why don't we ask some of the guides who fish the Cowlitz? Duckinthefog: Yes, I am a "Meat Fisherman". If legal to do so, I keep the fish I catch and I take them home and eat them. Yes, I love to line fish.... I lined one this morning as a matter of fact. It was a chrome bright chinook hen about 18lbs and chocked full of eggs. I kept the fish because it was hooked in the mouth.... Right in the bottom jaw. I will eat the fish and use the eggs for Steelhead this winter. I caught that fish in front of about 30 guys today. There was no shame in it. None at all. It was a legally caught fish. I don't care that the fish didn't "bite" my junk. I put a hook in that fishe's mouth and that is all that matters to me. Am I a bad person? Do I have poor morals? Are you better than me because you refuse to engage in such "Brutal" tactics? Maybe, but I've got a freezer load of fish and only four punches left on my Steelhead card, so in my book what you have to say doesn't really seem to matter that much. If you disagree with my tactics, then that's fine. It's OK to disagree with me. But if you want to attack my Moral Character, if you want to question my integrety and my honesty over something as stupid as this, then we have a problem. I'll be down on the Skokomish this Wednesday at around 8:00AM. I'll be the one with the red tiger striped fishing vest. Come on down and say "HI", then maybe we can discuss what a loser I really am.