this is the law straight from the wa legislature page for keeping salmon http://www.leg.wa.gov/wac/index.cfm?fuseaction=Section&Section=220-56-215 cant get any clearer then that. the regs are wrong when it clarifies snagging and thats why it is being changed next year to what this law says. anyways this law only applies to salmon. hope that this will put all the arguements to rest