So both guys I was with this weekend were making fun of ME for saying that they were spawners, snakes, no good, cat food etc...so you can settle with the eye rolling. My girlfriend used to do that...

I used to have the attitude that all hatchery fish must be bonked regardless of where they were in the spawning process. For the past five years I have reconsidered my position and decided that it would be in my best interest as a fisherman to let them go.

I'd never eat one again, but my first year steelhead fishing I tried one...
how was I supposed to know, that sucker was bright! Too bad you couldn't say the same thing about the meat...

I obviously couldn't have kept many or I wouldn't be asking questions about their physiology...

You'd think people who obviously fancy themselves a bunch of comedians would actually be funny, I suppose that would asking a little much around here.