Actually I was trying to explain how the entire fishery is about fish being hooked without the fish trying to eat a bait. If you think you are catching fish by the fish running down your bait and swallowing it, then you are mistaken and hence, you too are a snagger.

If you have never fished it, then your comments aren't worth much.

They are hatchery fish in an artificial situation. The dike is artificial. The salmon follow each other up that "river" (read that as a ditch), using exactly the same path within inches. You put a hook in front of that path, the fish are going to end up running into it. You can delicately fish your eggs in that path, and the fish will run into them too. It might make you feel better to think that you are outfoxing those hatchery fish into biting, but it ain't true. If you catch one salmon that actually bit your eggs under your float, then you hooked 10 others that just ran into it and I defy you to tell me which salmon took it, and which didn't.

I am not fishing the ditch anymore and I guess that makes me feel like a have perspective to call it like it is. If you fish that, then you are snagging. It is all snagging. Use bait or jigs, under a float or whatever. Those fish aren't biting. I call BS on anyone who says otherwise for the vast majority of fish there.

You want to call me a snagger, fine. I call you a snagger too.