Holy cow Dave Jackson, my post on the snagging thread must have hit home. Like I said, you pick your battles.

I for one am not going to confront anyone who has the mindset to snag his dinner. My ex-brother-in-law from way up the Washougal was very unfortunate in his childhood. They did whatever they had to do to feed the family. It unfortunatly carried over to his adult life where he was busted for poaching a deer with his headlights. You think I'm going to confront that guy in the back woods with a gun in his hand in the dark to explain the illegality of the situation? No thankyouverymuch, I have a wife and 3 kids that need me.

We all break the law. We speed with the car, we roll through stop signs or even run red lights, we probably drive home after having a few too many pop's at the bar or we fire up a doob in the privacy of our own home (or wherever). Where does snagging a fish fall into that? Certainly not life threatening to me. Yes the resource must be protected, but in reality we sportfisherman are the collective drops of WD 40 in the Columbia compared to habitat degredation, indescriminate commercial harvest and el nino. Sure we do our thing to help, but every snagger that is out there is still out there. The sportsman damn well better abide by the rules, but it is for the police to deal with. Are you going to call the cops on your buddy because you know he's smoking pot and you don't agree with it? I hope to hell not. If my buddy is snagging to feed his kids, I wish him tight lines, and move downstream. I also refuse his invitations to the river though.