Please understand that I'm not condoning the abuse of a resource. People who know me know this of me. I'm just stating that for the five salmon trips I was able to go on this year that when I landed a couple fish out of five that weren't mouth shots that I kept them.

It's food. A couple fish out of a run of 60,000 on this creek. Two fish that wouldn't be pitchforked into a truck at pennies per fish for cat food. Two fish that gave my family about 8 meals each.

It's ethically wrong, but it's also something that I could live with to bring home food.