Tom Nakashima wrote:
I plan to eat what I catch and release the other brook trout, but my
question is; how is the best way to kill the fish that I will be eating? I
don't mean to be cruel to the fish in anyway. I've heard that a strike on
the head is one method, then gutting them right away. The other is just
letting them suffocate by keeping them out of the water. Another way is
gutting them alive.
Comments?

I bonk them on the head immediately then put them in
an arctic creel. They'll keep quite a while if you keep
them cool so there's no need to gut them right away. I
don't like to let them die slowly of suffocation.

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Ken Fortenberry