Snagging Technique

I've been reading a lot of posts about snagging lately. I've been informed that "flossing" is a legal way to snag. I've been told that a hook anywhere forward of the dorsal fin is a fair hook. So, since so many people on here seem to be experts in snagging, let's talk about your favorite snagging technique. I know, I know. It's like talking about an illegitimate son or a sibling that shoots heroin. It's embarrassing. No one wants to admit that they are a snAgGr. It's a dirty word. So what? Talk about tying a bead a couple inches above a bare hook. Talk about using 1" jigs in tribs. Talk about little cleos. Let's hear those snagging stories.

TheBlueLagoon


Let's hear one of yours SLAB

Ok, so there I was, fishing with my girlfriend (now my wife) in the early spring. I was using worms and big sinkers, fishing off of the bottom. When I turned my attention away from the beautiful woman on the blanket beside me to the rod that was propped up on a "Y" stick, I saw that it was bouncing pretty hard. I grabbed the rod, set the hook, and... SNAG. I was stuck on the bottom. I started to jerk the rod up and down, side to side, all to no avail. My sinker must have gotten snagged on a rock. "Oh well, looks like I'll have to break it" I said to the red-haired princess at my side. I jerked up on the rod one last time and felt the sinker come loose. One the way up though, it felt like I got a hit. Sure enough, that little Zebco 33 started giving up line. "It's a big one! Must be a carp or a big catfish!" I excitedly exclaimed to the freckled, elfin beauty. After a few minutes and much excitement, I brought my fish to the surface. I was suprised to see a 28" red-tailed sucker. I was even more suprised to see the hook buried in its rectum... The sweet-faced seraph beside me recoiled in horror as I awkwardly but quickly removed the hook, even as the fish poop and blood covered my fingers.
 
We hung around and fished for a while afterward, but even though I washed my hands in the creek, she wouldn't let me touch her until we got home and found some soap.

HAHAHAHA! good story

When I was a kid we used to make grappling hooks out thick steel wire and attach em' to a long rope 100' or so and head down South 18th Street in the SS and try to snag anything we could off the bottom of the river from the boat docks, back then the dock stretched a ways out into the river.
except fish, we left the carp and catfish to our ugly sticks.
 
So we would launch this out into the river and see what we coulcome up with, that summer we pulled out bicycles,giant logs covered in fishing lures/tackle, ect....But my best SNAG ever that summer was the Ugly Stick with a Giant Carp on it had lost a few days beforehand. I couldn't believe it when I pulled the rope in and I saw my rod with the fish still attached to the other end.
 
Fun Times
 
 

Somebody has got to have a dead body story... ANYONE??? ....recently a body was found around the 10th street bridge and days before that a buddy of mine and I were fishing in that exact area with the boat, and actually joked about what if we hooked into a dead body!....then a few days later that story came out, I immediately texted him the story and we both just about shat our pants.  I've caught some extrodinary sh*t out of these 3 rivers but never a corpse...i hope it stays that way.

I'm not a bit embarrassed to admit I'm a snagr. Everyone jokes about it...it aint that easy. Doing it by accident on a pile of fish...easy. Picking a fish from the pod, and saying..."I'm gonna rip that one"....way difficult.
 
I like to drift a spoon, in the current, if front of the fishes face...as soon as his mouth opens....I slide that spoon in and stab him. Usually I have him top dead center of the mouth.
 
I've given my friends snagging lessons...serious.

I give lessons at Cascade every Sunday morning October through February.

Mr.Slickfish

I give lessons at Cascade every Sunday morning October through February.

He is a very good teacher....
 
Thank You, Oh Master of the Snag.....
 
 
When we were teenagers on the first day of trout we got bored catching trout. This was back in the 70's when they dumped in way to many fish. So we went to trying to snag the big suckers that were in the creek. Had this old duffer stand there and watch us for about 15 minutes. When we finally hooked one he came walking over and proceeded to show us his Fish Cop badge....OOOOOppps.
 
He was actually pretty cool about the whole thing he had us dead to rights for snagging but just gave us a good azz chewing and didn't cite us. He said since we were only snagging suckers he would let us off with just a warning.....

in erie anyone with a cast master can snag....just run it through the pile enough times
or put a thingamabob 8 feet up your fly line from your small black fly and run it through
alittle different up in ny where you can only use a single hook
there you have the pinch point guys who will wait to see a fish come through and aim for the front end and jerk
those who fish the redds who will rig it so the line parrallels the bottom about 8 inches up and then cast right on top of the hens to snag the males and trout behind
those who will "swing" the flies while lifting
the spey guys who swing through the whole hole in one suppersnagger motion
the ones who use the bright colored flies or spounge , sit it on the bottom and watch for a fish to pass over
and finally those who get those spots that hold a couple fish in the slack water behind rocks and drop in and rip
i prefer to actually fish for my fish
but i am a good observer
 
ps, yes i have intentionally snagged a fish....the shop i work at part time had a kids trout derby in the water feature, there were 6 trout left and the cities permit ran out at midnight meaning the shop would be fined for having them there...the boss and three others had spent the day throwing all manner of bait at them...when i came to work at 6 i asked what was going on, they explained and i got my fly rod out of the truck and had them all in a bucket within 10 minutes.......like i said, i observe and learn

i accidentally snagged a guy who decided to wade into the middle of the hole i was fishing...just broke him off
oh yea and the time i snagged my own ear fly fishing salmon...nice ear ring

I know you said "accidentally" but... LOL!

i got him good, size 2 bait hook in the back of the leg...through the waders :)
 
got me good too, whole way through and i had to pull it out with forcepts....windy day

bigbear2010

i got him good, size 2 bait hook in the back of the leg...through the waders :)
Attaboy! An you busted it off? That's awesome! HAHAHAHA!

got me good too, whole way through and i had to pull it out with forcepts....windy day

I've seen pics of people with fly hooks in their eyes. Glad it was your ear.

I don't blame you. It's ignorant to wade in front of someone like that. So, did the guy want to fight you or what? Any drama involved? If I'd have been watching from the bank, I would have gotten a good laugh at this one. Duud was probably mad even though it was his fault.

That's beautiful! HAHAHA! Good for the idiot.
 
I was on a 15ft Sea Nymph with two of my friends when I was about 17. My one buddy snagged my other buddy in the face with a J-9 Silver Rapala. 2 sets of trebs in the sideburns. It was one of the sickest, yet funniest things I have ever seen. He wouldn't let anyone help him. He insisted on yanking the hooks out himself. The pliers slipped off of the hook at least twice before the first set of hooks came out. He got the second set out on the first try though. LOL! He bled like a stuck hog. My other buddy kept telling him to be careful so he didn't bend the hooks on his lure! LOL! Good times.