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Originally posted by Steve Ericsson:
Plus, in each of my examples, the fish could be a wild steelhead, I never specified salmon, I said fish.
Steve-
Hmmmmm...in many of the situations that you provided us, it would be rare to run into a wild steelhead.

And in your second set of examples...

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I can still catch a wild steelhead from a bridge, high rocks, a ledge, many other places that make it nearly impossible to release the fish without taking it out of the water. Ever fished in one of these types of places?? Of course you have.
Until you actually catch and release a wild steelhead from one of these types of situations and recieved a citation because you had to remove the fish from the water to release it, then I consider that comment a valid arguement. Given that the majority of enforcement officers use disgression, I do not forsee you having a problem. And I have already recieved word from one officer, that he will in fact use disgression...if you run into a situation like this and you treat the fish with care and respect, you will not get a ticket.
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Ryan S. Petzold
aka Sparkey and/or Special