RT, first off I don,t keep snagged fish, I do a lot of catch and release of summer fish, and by your own admission the survival of c and r is less for these than that of snagged fish. I assume that we are talking about hatchery fish here. The manager of the hatchery on the river that I fish on actually get's mad when people release fish as he wants all the fish kept so he won't have to mess with them at the hatchery. I think that my poiint is that I don't understand how keeping a snagged fish (accidently snagged) would harm a artifical run. Just wondering.