OK heres one that I havent thought about, so your drifting eggs for hatchery kings and you hook a fresh brite wild coho (wild coho is closed in the river your fishing) that just in an instant hes up and down the pool you fishing, it flys up stream peeling drag, you realise its a wild fish and you dont want to harm it so you thumb her down hopeing the line well break at/near the hook, she peels left under the pressure of the tight line, right up on the shore she goes, you run to her aid, you grab her and scoot her back into the water right as the game warden rounds the corner...now whats the game warden going to do....the ones I have talked to well do nothing they think its a dumb law too. but they do like the fact that they have just one more tool to hassel someone that they have judged to be troublesome or not good sportsmen......this is where I get mixed feelings I have seen the people that inspired sparky to do what he did, and dont like it either, But now we are letting/ expecting the enforcement officers to judge someones sportsmenship..Im not saying that all the wardens well abuse the power but there well be a few bad apples in every box. ..I can see someone getting the shaft over personal conflects with-in there community and wont be able to do a thing...