This poses an interesting argument. For those people who believe that legalizing specific offenses will allow better monitoring and free up resourced to go after more offensive crimes this line of thinking might prove to be a way to show that legalizing 'recreational' drugs would have merit. (No I am NOT saying that anyone on this board holds this belief...just that some people in this world do and will use anything to further their case) If anything, changing the rules to allow specific snagging fisheries would allow law enforecment/gov to have a record of those that do snag fish and would have a tendency to do so in other locations. "I see where you were snagging your limit over there but it is not legal here. You are a known snagger so I do not believe that you caught those fish legally here..." I also see where this would just encourage others to try snagging as a method of fishing instead of learning the sport properly. To me I think that is more of a reason to not try this method. Why encourage more people to fish this way? It would still take a large amount of law enforcement to keep up on the rivers that are not open to legal snagging.

I would rather like to see a three strikes kind of law...three violations (any violation) and you can not get a license for 2 years. Do it again after that and you don't get a license in the state again ever.
Add to this the confiscation of gear at each offense and a hefty fine and I would think that this disgusting method of catching fish would be greatly reduced. (Not to mention other violations.) I am not fool enough to believe that it will ever be stopped.

Just my 2 cents worth.