Salmonbelly, yeah it may be great healthy protine but thats what the state spemds millions of dollars on hatcheries for! Kill all the hatchery fish you want and leave the wild ones alone. The reason you caught more this winter than you did 30 years ago is because todays methods and tackle are more sophisticated and effective.
My feeling is that there are so many hatchery fish why not just keep a bunch of them and put the wild fish back. There is not one angler in the state who needs to kill wild fish for him or his family to survive. Killing wild fish is an act of greed an nothing else. There is no way to sugar coat it. Until a stream is meeting what should be it's maximum spawner demsity noone should be intentionally killing them for any reason. Especially sport anglers! I'll say it one more time there are hundreds of thousands of hatchery for anglers to catch and eat. Killing wild fish is an act of greed even where legal!