I know the wild steelhead CNR ediquette threads are getting old, but come on!!
This fish is lying on the beach nowere near water, while the angler fumbles for a tape and a camera! Is it worth putting a fish through all that just to know exactly how much it weighs?
I also got a 20+ pounder this year. It was a very tough place to land a fish and i wasnt able to get pics being by myself, but the memories will always be there. I know guys want something to show off when they get the big one, but sometimes you gotta put the fish first...

After seeing a filleted wild fish on my fav. river and seeing a "guide" net a wild fish and let his clients roll it around in the bottom of the boat makes me glad the rivers close March 1 on the Sno/stilly/sky....Just a little bitter fellas frown

Nice fish though
_________________________
"I have a fair idea of what to expect from the river, and usually, because I fish it that way, the river gives me approximately what I expect of it. But sooner or later something always comes up to change the set of my ways..."
- Roderick Haig-Brown