Avoiding snags while bottom fishing?

[Dave Bailey]

(08-04-2014 02:17 AM)zippyFX Wrote:  Tighten the drag to max line up the rod with the snag so it is pointing directly to it and pull straight back.

This will generally straighten the hook or actually pull in the obstruction.

Or snap your line if you are on a rock or an immovable obstruction.

Yep, that's what I do. The trouble is that I'm snagging constantly. You see underwater videos of someone dragging a crankbait through sunken brush, with the lip bouncing off logs, and you think that it can be done easily. Yeah, right. I'll bet they did dozens of takes before getting one that didn't hang up permanently, because in that situation it's almost impossible to not get snagged.