Hi Phishfreak:

Last fall I was fishing for silvers in a terminal area with a float and eggs and really havin a good day. The fish were stacked up in a small slot, prime pickins for the local yocals snagger a'holes. This guy comes down and stands new to me and starts snaggin. I matched him fish for fish (mine were all fair hooked though). I told him there was no need to snag these fish. I even broke into my vest and set him up with the same setup!!! After 5 minutes on not catching anything he gave the rig back to me. The point is Snaggers are dumb A$$ jerks who don't know how to fish and most of them aren't interested in learning.

The thing that bothers me about your post is the age old "My method is better/more reichous than yours, yada, yada, yada". Instead of floats why not floating flylines and dryflys. For some that may seem like a good solution to the snagger prolbem.

Personally I would rather try and educate these guys first, if that doesn't work I usually try and run them out of the hole. One time I invited a friend of mine who is a police officer to fish one of the salmon/snagger holes on the Snohomish. He only had to show his badge once then all the snaggers went home.
If the ethical fishermen stick together and speak up to the snaggers they usually back down pretty quickly.

FYI: I didn't mean any disrespect to you or your post just trying to make a point with the flyline comment.