LOL PnP! I think you should have just let your original post stand. I don't think anyone was offended and all this "knifing and releasing" (KnR) sounds a little creepy. \:\) I wouldn't know what to think if I saw someone actually doing that on the river? Would you have to mark that one on the card? ;\)

While I agree with the sentiment, I'm most surprised at the matter-of-fact, general consenus (so far) that hatchery fish are obviously inferior and actually harm native stocks. I think that is true but I don't think that would have been the case 10 or 15 years ago.

Hatcheries seem like damn expensive band-aids on a massive, gaping wound.