How people without a kayak or a boat catch kokanee - snagging

I don't have an issue with snagging as long as it is legal.  I also completely understand the people who don't snags choice not to do so.  there are several snag fisheries available here in Alaska to snag and I do not participate in them...says the guy who uses 5 ft diameter nets to intercept sockeyes in a river....haha.

I don't see a "sporting" difference between snagging and netting - may even a small "ethical" nod to snagging over netting, based on degree of difficulty (I remember hearing about this on one of the chick-sports from the olympics like figure skating or gymnastics or something).

Edit: I would like to make it clear that I DID NOT WATCH THE OLYPMICS. And especially not the figure skating.

Edit Edit: I may have watched girls gymnastics, but only for the articles. That may be where I picked it up.

Funny thing is you don't need to snag kokanee even when in their spawning phase. They will quite readily take small marabou or tube jig in pink or red under a bobber.

Great video, uplandsandpiper! Those are really brightly colored spawning kokanee.  You were fishing in a shallow river, but I wonder if that technique would work in a lake?  When I'm downrigger trolling for kokanee, there are often a lot of kokanee jumping around me, and I've wondered how to target them.  If they're hanging out at the surface, I can't see them on my fish finder because my kayak spooks them out of the cone of my sonar.  I wonder if I were to stop in an area where kokanee are jumping and cast a jig out a few feet under a bobber, if I'd pick up some kokanee from a few feet below the surface?  I haven't heard of anybody doing this.

Great video, uplandsandpiper! Those are really brightly colored spawning kokanee.  You were fishing in a shallow river, but I wonder if that technique would work in a lake?  When I'm downrigger trolling for kokanee, there are often a lot of kokanee jumping around me, and I've wondered how to target them.  If they're hanging out at the surface, I can't see them on my fish finder because my kayak spooks them out of the cone of my sonar.  I wonder if I were stop in an area where kokanee are jumping and cast a jig out a few feet under a bobber, if I'd pick up some kokanee from a few feet below the surface?  I haven't heard of anybody doing this.

We were able to get them to bite in stagnant water by casting a bobber and jig into them and twitching it.