thanks dave, i know i am a new guy here and I got a lot to learn about catchin fish and stuff but I thought it was against the fish laws now to take a wild steelhead completely out of the water unless it was legal to keep them. i cant afford to fish with a fish guide but if i could afford one, i sure would want him to tell me if i was breakin the fishing laws. i would think that a fish guide would be in big trouble if the fish cops got a hold of him or that picture. i know up here in my neck of the woods when they see us taking a wild fish out of the water we get nail to the stump.

i didn't think much about it until i seen that picture of that big hog 2 foot out of the water. Ain't guides suppose to make sure that there client don't break the fish laws ? i hope you guys don't get all mad at me but dave told me to ask away. so i guess my question is did that guy break the law and if he did, did the guy who took the picture also break the law. It looks like 2 people may have broken the fish laws. ain't it against the fish laws for a fellow fisher not to report a guy breaking the fish law and help him by taken his picture ?

we don't get away with it up here, so how do they get away doing that kind of stuff there? you guys are pretty darn smart and i respect the vast knowledge that many of you guys have about fishin and stuff. so did these guys break the fishing laws or not ?