You want law? I'll give you law.

When the horse is dead, quit kicking it. It's the law.

This discussion in the past has come up with one clear fact: the Washington angling laws have a loophole that allows someone to potentially floss a fish or snag it in the head (if there is a difference) as long as the hook hits the gillplate or forward. This does not mean that a game officer cannot give you a ticket if the officer feels that you tried to snag (or floss) the fish. And that doesn't mean that you cannot be pissed about it either way.

There ya go. That's it in a nutshell. Take the horse for what it stands for and grow to love it as others have.