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I posted my comment before I saw your post so I hope you don't think I was giving you a hard time.
I have no problem with any of these scenarios and would be most likely to keep one for reason A. And if it's not decent quality....compost or crab bait.
I have no problem with any of these scenarios and would be most likely to keep one for reason A. And if it's not decent quality....compost or crab bait.
bubs said:I've never kept a spawned out fish (was just sort of thinking it through in my post above), and I don't plan to, but some possible reasons for others might be:
A) it's a steelhead that looks more or less freshly spawned and still has some meat and you figure it might smoke up OK, B) you suspect that for whatever reason your fighting or handling it might cause it to die anyway, C) because you have it out for all hatchery fish, D) you want to see for yourself what the meat quality is like in that particular fish because someone telling you on an online forum that it will suck isn't enough to satisfy your curiosity, or E) it's a huge monster spawned out steelhead and even though it looks sort of like a giant eel you want to take it home and show it off to yo mama.