Oh please.........Lining is not "snagging". Lets face it, if anyone of you have ever fished a river full of large amounts of salmon, chances are, all of us have lined fish before. It comes down to the facts of what you do with the fish after you land them. Anything hooked in the head is legal, and anywhere else is considered to have been snagged. Don't get me wrong here, I don't intentially snag fish. I think the lining technique is fine if you are fishing in an area where the numbers aren't depressed. If you are obviously doing this techinique on dwindling numbers than I think it's wrong. Go to Alaska or the Satsop when the fish are abundant, lets face the facts, in these conditions all of us have lined fish. Even steelhead when they are schooled up.