Here we go again!!! Let me weigh in first. If I'm out in the salt trolling and bring in a fish that by the time I get it to the boat it is "snagged" in say a fin. I bonk it. My reasoning is that the fish hit my lure and in the resulting fight the hook(s) slip from the mouth to the fin, well too bad, in my book it was a legal catch. This happens regularly with silvers thrashing on the surface.

If I get a ticket someday for this, so be it. I can't be responsible for th stupidity of others. While idiots worry about whether a fish intended(what a foolish concept... worrying about a fish's intention before I am allowed to stick a hook into it and then ultimately knock it over the head with a club) to bite my lure , the gillnetters continue to rape the resource.

Flame away! I can take it.