Wait, softhackle... you DON'T always catch trophy fish when you target them?

Yeah, I thought that was a bit of a stretch, too, but upon further consideration, I realized that sporties have definitely done at least a small share of the damage, particularly in Alaska, where a lot of tourists congregate en masse on rivers like the Kenai, which is famous for it's trophy kings. Of course, that is a terminal area, so at least the fish caught there are from the same stock, and it's not removing big fish from virtually every gene pool, like the mixed stock fisheries in the ocean do.