wrote:
Ken Fortenberry wrote:
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Does this mean you think it's important to return a dying fish to the
water?

The Montana bag limit is (usually) 5 fish per day.
I kill about 5 per year. They're mostly fish that didn't look
like they were going to make it. Returning those fish to the
water is, in my book, a crime, even if the current water happens
to be catch and release.

If that makes me a poacher, so be it.
It certainly does make you a poacher and it's sheer
nonsense to consider returning a dead fish to the water
a "crime". You're not the only link in the food chain
you know, that dead fish will be a fine meal even if
you don't take it home for yourself.

Honest question: Isn't this a vector for whirling disease?

Only if you put the dead fish in a different stream. If you
return it where you caught it, then no it isn't.

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Ken Fortenberry