So what then do you suggest we do? Let every jerk out there who wants to drop kick the fish back in the water do so and just look the other way?

I think it is pretty simple. We as sportsman need to continually exam our sport's ethics and best practices, set some standards, be personally accountable, and do our part to ensure others don't tarnish our sport.

If reasonable measures are taken to ensure fish are not mortally hooked and\or played to death, and carefully revived\released - that is all we can ask for. If that is not good enough to protect the 'by catch' of protected fish, then they probably should shut it down to all fishing. (Those reasonable measures may include laws not allowing bait, barbless hooks, etc, as well as sportsman setting their own standards like not fishing\wading over redds, etc)