We've come a long way on the native retention laws...just a few short years ago you could kill one per day on lots of streams...now it's down to one per year, and only on a handful of streams.

Until that loophole is closed, our best bet is to educate our fellow anglers to not do it, even if the law allows it...and wishing ass cancer on them probably isn't the best way to go about it.

There is virtually no chance that the fish has spawned, ever. Statistically speaking, zero bucks repeat spawn. That's not to say that they don't, but statistically all repeat spawners are hens...they drop their eggs and head out, while the bucks literally stay in the river all spring spawning until they die...it's what they do.

Fish on...

Todd