here is how to go 20 years with only one foul hooked fish.

1. do not fish in areas where fish stack up by the hundreds so close together that you cant get a lure fly or bait through them without hitting them!!

2. don't fish for visible fish so long thet you eventually snag them!

3. don't fish pools where the fish are all stirred up by snaggers.

I fished for coho 2 days last fall on an extremely popular river on a weekend and never saw another soul. The first day I caught 9 all on spinners all inside the mouth. The second say I hooked 5. I started at 11:00 am and was done by 3:00

frankly that was enough salmon fishing for me ina season. people fish for different reasons
i don't go fishing to put as many fish on the bank as I can. I go out to have a good time and to see if i still have the knowledge and skills it takes to be effective. I enjoy the level of skill I have and I don't need to impress other anglers and I don't want to impress them or the people on this board.

almost all of the snagging in the state of washington is done by guys using corkies . That is a fact. In the fall months there are more people snagging with corkies than there are fishing legally.

When I was about 10 I tried snagging a steelhead with a steelie rigges with a siawash. It was near impossible. When I jerked the soppn would ride up over the top of the fish not hook it the action of the spoon insured that. That is why spoons with singles rarely snag on rocks.
My point is the vast majority of fishermen in the fall using only a corkie and maybe some yarn are guys who are attempting to snag. If taking floating drift bobbers away from them is what it takes to make life hard on them I am ALL for that. if you don't like that idea then make sure that every time you see a guy snagging that way turn them in, with a description,license number, and be willing to set aside a day to go to court and testify.
I think the best thing we could do would be to close terminal salmon fisheries.
cedar creek on the North Lewis. These guys want to go where there are lots of fish and lots of other snaggers. They will not be displaced to other rivers they will simply quit fishing.