Some very good points made hear!

One of my main concerns is when someone snags a fish,

1. Fights it to total exhaustion because their harder to bring in backwards.
2. Acids build up faster in the muscle tissue then the fishes metablism can deal with.
3. Dragging a fish backwards also can damage gill filaments.
4. There harder to un-hook I normally see people dragging them upon the rocks and waiting till the stop thrashing around so they can pull the hook out of the tail.
5. They get kicked back into the water half the time, un-revived



{3}(as most catch and release fishermen should know dont swish em back and forth to revive them!)

For these reasons part of me says they should be able to take there two fish and get the hell out! Otherwise there killing alot of would be spawners!

The other part of me thinks if the wdfw legalized snagging all the sporting goods stores would be out of treble hooks!
And snagging is just plain wrong! what pride can you take in holding two nice fish that you snagged and tell people you caught them? You would have to be a pretty shallow person to do that.

Its a tough one to be sure!