Has anyone ever seen a snagger who uses a float setup? Float and jig, float and eggs, float and whatever? I'm sure it can be done, but I bet it's a whole lot harder.

My point? Well I know even the thought of this will piss off a lot of you, but hey - it's just a thought...

If a river had a rule that requred single barbless hooks and the use of a float, I bet most of the snag fests would be greatly reduced.

And most of us know that a float and jig\bait can be very effective for all types of salmon\steelhead.

Maybe just chage the definition of 'non bouyant lure restriction' to be allow the use of plugs, but any non floating hardware or bait has to be fished under a float - including corkies\yarn.

One thing that pisses me off is watching these guys on the green or other river using drift gear fishing over chum on their redds. At least one out of 3 fish (if they are kind of trying not to snag) is snagged. I was doing other techniques and was getting 3 legit hookups to every 1 snagg and I still left because I quickly lost interest in fishing under those odds. I never snagged when using a float\jig though.

Anyway - just rambling....