After reading this latest story about the guy on the Skagit killing the 40 pound King it made me wonder how people deal with the fish that dies on them during a closed season or when the fish is protected. Recently I was fishing a local river where Spring Chinook is closed to the taking of them but there are some Summer Steelhead available for catch and release. Well I got a nice Spring and after landing him proceeded to try to revive him. Now I figure I'm a pretty good fisherman and I enjoy catch and release. Well this King I hold on for about thirty minutes and everytime I let it go it goes belly up. I've released hundreds and hundreds of fish so I'm no green horn and this fish I just got in the lip. I also played him quickly as to not over tire him but he just won't get up and go. I felt like &^%$ to have killed such a beautiful fish, I'm only glad it was a buck and not a hen. My question is what do most of you guys think a guy should do when a fish dies when you've done everything right but it's just one in a hundred that won't get up and go. In the twenty years I've fished this has happened to me two other times but it's always such a shame to see. By the way, I don't believe this was the case at all with the guy on the Skagit but it just got me thinking how the general public might view this situation.