I'll jump in on this one!!

No where in the regs does it state and anchor can be dragged to slow the sled to fish a drift but it is done on a quite regular basis up here and deffinately needs to be halted!! I've seen huge balls of chain being drug down the river to slow ones drift and on many occasions have gone a little beyond biting my tongue to try and educate those dragging through known spawning areas.

The Skagit is a huge river with one of the largest CFS's on the West Coast and remains a killer work-out on the oars and a not so effective river to fish out of a sled without oars or by dragging it to slow ones speed.
As most can not afford to also buy a drift boat for the C&R Season or either rig their sled with oars due to the sled size in most cases, current regs should be changed for not only the majority of sled owners that wish to fish the C&R Season up here but to also protect the fish from having redds dredged up. With lack of current enforcement officer numbers for such a big system and limited viewing areas from the bank to enforce a no anchor dragging rule, let alone the current fishing under power going on by those lacking integrity and regard for the law, the regs DO need to be changed.

Regs "in my opinion" should be changed to allow fishing while under power below the HWY 530 bridge located in Rockport down to the current C&R boundry line in Concrete. Current regs should either stand as is for above Rockort or ban the use of sleds all together during the C&R season above Rockport due to very limited viewing areas by enforcement officers and the amount of redds in the upper stretch. Yes, this will most likely bring more anglers to this area but it should also allow for more much needed enforcement officers.
Also as a side note for those taking the more fish caught by sleds under power than free drifting means more hook mortality,..when side drifting or boon-doggin' artificial lures on a river with flows as fast as the Skagit almost every single fish caught is hooked in the outer mouth area and not in the gills or even deeper as is often the case when using bait divers with artificial lures or even some of the smaller plugs seen today.