Yes you are...this is the part that they use to prohibit fishing for a salmon when the season is closed for them:

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For all Game Fish and salmon, the Special
Rules show all of the fishing opportunities
for each freshwater area listed.

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It's on page 16 of the regulations.

If it doesn't list a salmon species as being "open", then it is closed...and there are no fishing opportunities for those species. The opportunity to purposely catch and release isn't there unless it is specifically listed.

Not only do those that are incidentally caught...like chums on the Snohomish system this year...have to be released, you can't intentionally fish for them, either.

Fish on...

Todd

P.S. Cue the same crowd as the flossers that will do it anyway because it can't be "proven" that you are fishing for chums...it doesn't really matter, that doesn't make it legal.