mrey- you made my point. A dead fish is a dead fish. Why does the guy's decision to smoke it (allegedly) make him more of an idiot that if he mounted it, fried it, bbq'ed it or threw it in the garden? Guys I am 100% for wild steelhead release...for me and everyone else and I do practice it snow dog. Fact is we don't really have the right to judge when someone acts completely within the law. I've been a part of this forum for a long time and I enjoy it but it gets really old reading topics like this. "25 #er from the Oly Pen" sure got my attention then out comes the fish god and it's judgement day for the plunker. Maybe I had a bad day and my fuse was short but come on...