I'm curious. If your willing to bonk that trophy cause you want a wall mount, why not go with the alternative of a replica and enjoy the knowledge that you caught it and still did everything in your power to continue the nate survival? The replica will look better, last longer, and you can tell the same story to all that see it as you would with the real thing. Plus, people will actually respect you when you tell them its a rep vs the real deal, and why.

Your logic may work for you, not me. This same narrow mindedness is why there is no fishing as of today in the Puget Sound streams. This is not an elitist point of view, its the facts. They thought these runs could support nate killing very recently to. Apparently, they were wrong....