I let my Nates go. Most of the rivers I fish are closed to retention of wild fish, so keeping one is sort of out of the question. I've actually had very good luck so far with releasing wild fish. In the last five years I've only had one Wild fish that was bleeding badly, he was hooked in the gills and was bleeding everywhere. I couldn't even get him to swim away, he just kept going belly up, no matter what I did, he wouldn't swim off, so I bonked him, even though it was illegal, and I took him home and ate him. If I'd have gotten caught, I'd have been in big trouble, and just for the record, I'm totally against keeping wild fish, even where it is legal to do so, but I felt that this was a special case. I'm not saying to start bonking Nates, because the Judge wont care weather the fish was bleeding or not. I'm just saying what I did, and I'm really not sure if I'd do it again or not.
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If you get home and I'm not there, don't eat it.