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Bad Tuna
This time of year, every year, on all the different outdoor forums people are posing with pics of dark wild fish. I'm not singling anyone out anywhere, if you're already uptight reading this, you're probably part of the problem.
On most rivers, you can keep some sort of wild (unclipped) salmon or steelhead, if it's legal, bright, and you want to kill it, by all means, have at it. If you happen to catch a dark fish, close to spawning, please consider letting it go to make more babies. The dark fish are poor eating quality, even in the smoker, and nobody is impressed with your native spawner. I, for one, am more impressed that someone released a spawner to help keep runs going, than a pic of a dead fish with milt running down it's tail. Please think before you bonk.
On most rivers, you can keep some sort of wild (unclipped) salmon or steelhead, if it's legal, bright, and you want to kill it, by all means, have at it. If you happen to catch a dark fish, close to spawning, please consider letting it go to make more babies. The dark fish are poor eating quality, even in the smoker, and nobody is impressed with your native spawner. I, for one, am more impressed that someone released a spawner to help keep runs going, than a pic of a dead fish with milt running down it's tail. Please think before you bonk.