Homer,
You really caught me on that one! I don't know how old this picture is, but this client obviously lifted the fish for a picture (which we all know can be done without harming the fish if done quickly). So I'll retract my statement about removing fish from the water and just say he shows his clients how to handle fish carefully and releases them unharmed.

So does this picture mean he is a poacher? Ridiculous.
Calling him a poacher is what I was objecting to.

The river is now open for killing chums at the time the school was planned for anyway, so this is a moot point.

Now what about the other issue I brought up here. Why on earth can we not have a legal CR season from the beginning, when 100,000+ chums are predicted? Why is the escapement goal so high? And if the concern is about mortality then the silver season should go to restricted regs (barbless as JohnnyC reported doing) cause the by catch is going to be significant (probably far more harmful than all of the flyfishing schools). Arguing about what is being targetted, isn't protecting the fish and is mostly semantics anyway. I would think you and Dickson would be on the same side of this issue but you seem to have something in for him that I don't understand.