Cap Q, you do prove my point exactly, you have a right to a opinion and to express that opinion. You can accuse me of being a hypocrite but have you ever fished the Kenai?
These guys are right, I have seen true tomatoes with sea lice on them and caught in tide water. Many of our fish flush in and out, many caught in the ocean (especially in the nets) have turned to what you all would call tomatoes.
Many of our fish are very blushed up when they hit the river.
I have caught a chrome bright as you can get hens whose meat was softer than a humpy while a colored up male is bright and firm.

I really don't want to get into it with anyone, that was not the point of my post, my point was that my ethics are not the same as one who kills a 14# rainbow and I have right to express that as does the originator of the thread about the steelhead. And you have the right to rip my opinion about your legistator, which btw, was not intended to be a representation of your fishing ethics, but to show the point of personal ethics.
You all have enough battles to fight to not be battling other sport fishermen over ethics. I have a feeling you all would not like the way Alaskans are master flossers!!

Parker, don't get the good Doc and I going on the first run, spawning beds, and the like, betweeen the both of us we have enough data and opinions to fill up the site bandwidth!