On Fri, 02 May 2008 14:57:37 -0700, rw
wrote:

Some people who use two-nymph rigs and regularly snag fish in the anus
and everywhere else get all upset about someone using a plastic egg bead
pegged 3" or less (per Alaska regs) above a hook. It's snagging! Never
mind that the "snags" are usually on the outside of the mouth where they
do the least harm.

Every time I have used the glass (plastic) egg pegged above the hook,
the hook-set has almost always been in the upper jaw, smack damn in
the middle of the mouth, a position that, as you say does the least
harm.

I asked a Maine Game Warden about using this method and he said that
if I used a fly as the hook it would be legal.

Dave