OK, here's another one for you. I used to do a bit pf plugging on a certain coast river that had lots of log jams in it and big pig steelhead that knew what they were for. Having a fish blow the hole, head under a logjam, and continue off downstream on the other side was a common occurence, and to combat that situation we would leave the guy with the fish upstream of the jam, have him slack his line, float on downstream, snag his line with another rod, cut it and tie a quick blood knot to a 3rd rod with half a spool of line on it for just this purpose, and resume the festivities. Once we had to do this 3 times, as the fish went down through the jam on one rod, up through the jam on another, and back down through again so we had to tie on a 3rd rod. And lest some of you start thinking that we would all be arrested and hung by our thumbs if a warden ever caught us, one of my fishing buddies was an enforcement officer and I helped him out of this jam several times. The fish voluntarily took the plugs in their mouths after all, our having to snag the line and re-tie it to another rod was just a technique to deal with a hairy landing situation and had nothing to do with snagging fish. Anyway, one day we left our bud way up the hole out of sight, went on down, found his line and retied, and landed a nice big chrome hen which we bonked for him. When we rowed back up, there he was looking bored with his rod bent. Told him to reel in and told us he couldn't because the fish was still on there and what had you b@stards been doing for so long down there? Well, we went back down with the line snagging rod and sure enough, hooked another fish, damn nice one too, bigger than the other by a couple pounds. Well, we bonked that one too (talkin' pre-Boldt 70's here, ok?, we released dark fish and dinks but not chrome hens!). They had identical chrome green hotshots in them, real popular lure at the time, although we did notice that the line on the first one was a different brand than my bud was using once we got to comparing them. Some cracker before us had obviously lost the fish under the jam and didn't know how to deal with it without busting her off and leaving her hung in the logs. Except for the bonking of all the fish I would do the same thing today to a fish that ran me under a jam with a clear conscience, and if it was a hatchery fish and I really wanted one I'd keep it too.