I first fished the Samish 20 years ago, I was turned on to it by a guy from Alger. He used to brag of fishing for kings with a shotgun. It was, as it is for ALOT of locals, kinda cool to travel 15 minutes and snag some fish to eat. I am not going to say that people coming from Seattle are perfect (alot of us come from small towns as it is), but to blindly defend locals is ignorance.
Yup it's all them city's slickers fault. Go to the Samish or the Cascade or Stevens creek or Blue creek, ask the snaggers where they are from. I think you will find, as I have, most of them aren't from very far away.