I was rooting for a clean kill, as I am sure that the guys actually taking part were doing. It didn't work out that way, but that is the risk we take in our blood/harvest "sports". I'm sure none of us have ever had a coho deathroll and cut his gills on our mono before we let him go.

Would you all rather have seen the guys break down and cry for wounding the animal, or chasing it down and dispatching it as ugly as it was?

I went hound hunting one time. It was a blast. We actually just treed the quarry and stared at them (took pics) without killing them. I don't know if it was animal harassment or not, but essentially we had proper license and tags for the activity, the treed critters just were either female, or too small, or the wrong species. About as close to CnR fishing as hunting can get.

We fishermen are pretty much on the same side as hunters, whether we can admit it or not.