Prosecutors Case:

Here are the facts:

Dude takes his kid fishing and uses worms provided at local tackle shop.

Dude, who can't read, and is "ignorant", ignores the bait ban and catches some "trout", ie smolts. Nice bonding experience for Jr. Watch Daddy break the law.

Here's are the facts that my crack team of forensics officers (ie, me) just uncovered. Thank Glub for CSI, as they learned a lot from that show!

Dude cutplugs the trout and catches some ESA SnoCrummy King Salmon. Or, if cutplug smolts are not working, he wrapps his K-15's with smolt fillets.

Dude cutplugs the ESA Kings and uses them to fish for the local SnoCrummy ESA Taimen.

Dude takes the ESA Taimen, sticks an Owner 19/0 hook in it's back and uses it to lure in the ESA SnoCrummy White Shark.

ESA White Sharks eats his kid (ever see Jaws? It could happen!).

Dude cashes in the $7,634 life insurnace policy he took out against his kid. Takes the money and runs away with his neighbors wife's sister...which was later proven, by DNA experts, to be his Mother's cousins sister.

Fortunately, we now know the real truth, as Jr. is still alive, and this evil plot was unfoiled by heroic WDFW officers.

I, for one, call poaching ESA fish, attempted murder, and racketeering a "felony". I'd be willing to plea-bargain down to a $75 fine, though.