Yea, Charlie that's what I was getting at.    Specifically the use of the  mono in the Zone.   I politely told him that he shouldn't be using mono in the Zone as it is illegal .  He rather politely (no sarcasm) told me that this was all he had and he wanted to fish with his buddies and he was going to take his chances and stay.  I did nothing after that.  He was not snagging or lifting  by any means.  As far as running fly line (not mono),  I had a discussion with a  DEC officer and he said if he caught you lifting in the zone he would surely write a ticket for snagging and the line , but he would not single a guy out and write a ticket for just that as long as has fishing the right way.  He alluded  to the same if someone had an 1/8 split and a bead head fly.   He also added if he asks for a license and gets a hard time he would write a ticket for both even if you were fishing the right way.