I kinda have to agree with Willie on this one.

I can count the number of times, on one hand, I've been stopped and/or checked by a WDFW enforcement office while in the field. Of those, I've never been checked while fighting, or just releasing a fish.

I like those odds.

Sparkey's Law is just poorly thought out, and not enforceable with our current (or lack of) method of enforcement.

I think there should be a Parker's Law: State Wide Single Barbless, No Bait.

Good luck not "handling" any wild fish when that Owner Cutting Point trebble hook, either on your wrapped K-15, or your Tadpolly, just demolishes the face of that wild fish. Yeah, like tweaking it's face with a pair of pliars, while trashing around in the net (but in the water), is doing any good to the fish.