wrote:

... The last time I actually killed a fish I wasn' supposed to
was a large fish, that was at the edge of a slot limit anyway,
that was so badly gill hooked he was essentially dead before I
got him out of the net. There was blood all over hte place.
That was 4-5 years ago.

I was camping on the river that night. So I didn't throw a dead fish
back into the water. I put him tin foil
and baked him with garlic and oyster mushrooms.
And I felt thankful for nature's bounty, what little is left of it.

I killed a large cutt on Slough Creek when my wife and I were
camping up there near where Elk Tongue Creek comes in. A sow
grizzly and her cub had been spotted in the area and I thought
about the bears before I put that trout back in the water. I
wouldn't hold it against someone who ate the trout under those
circumstances but I kinda doubt the Yellowstone Rangers would
feel the same way about it.

--
Ken Fortenberry