Dang Burt! How many last times are you gonna post Bubba?
Sorry about the snobbishnish reply, but that's the impression I got from reading your posts.
Just because I haven't caught a Trout or Salmon, doesn't mean I haven't studied them! People use marshmallows down here for Catfish and whatever else they can catch with them, they use them in the tailrace areas of dams in the current and it is the action of the marshmallow in the current that attracts and triggers strikes. If you'll think about it, the idea of ringing a swimming fish in the mouth with a flailing marshmallow in current is pretty absurd... and nobody has refuted mt earlier comment about fly fishing with nymphs, streamers, and worms wouldn't be the same thing if you could indeed float a foriegn object into a swimming fishes mouth... but that's ok because it done with a fly rod?
I still get the impression that mallow fish is looked down upon because it is so low tech and "It's just not done that way". Like some Bass fishermen that use artificials only look down upon those that use bait, or others that would look down upon someone fishin' from a bank with a cane pole and a gob of Wheaties for Carp.
... and now you tell us you used to be a snagger but quit?... and that doesn't sound hypocritical to you?
Who should really care if someone uses mallows for bait as long as the fish is hooked inside the mouth and limits are abided by? Noone has yet to post the reg that say mallows are illegal.
I've found that ones ethics and morals are best kept to and abided by ones self in a situation like this.
May the next worm you float into a Salmonoids mouth be a PB for ya Bubba!!!
Glen