Avoiding bad Salmon river fishing practices

[Seanook]

Well I have done quite a lot of river fishing over the past few years and I've seen alot of people using tactics that I have come to find out are either aggressively frowned upon or plain taboo.

I plan on hitting the river up this weekend and the float Rod I ordered wasn't in stock (Nice that I wasn't told this until 2 weeks after placing the order) and this leaves me with my spinning combo.

This has me head scratching a bit as to what method I will use to catch with. I probably will go with a bobber, small hook, rowe or shrimp. Is this an acceptable river fishing technique?

If I used a three way swivel and weighted line with a main line consisting of cork, hook and bait, would this be considered a flossing technique?

I had planned to be Fly or float fishing so I really am not well versed in Salmon run river fish etiquite. When I was a young guy I was tought to use setups that are now obviously used for flossing and I do not condone their use. I was young and nobody told me it was bad. Once I found out how frowned upon it was I never used it again and was never really faced with these circumstances as I just fished mainly for Bass and Pike.

Please, anyone with any advice as to what setups to avoid would be greatly appreciated.

Thnx, Seanook.