just one more point on opening day..

we big time adult salmon and steelhead and halibut fishers have lots of opportunity to put meat in the freezer so hopefully the general mood is catch and release for us on this big day....

I view the "last saturday in april" trout opener as being primariky an opportunity to bring kids into the sport... so I don't use barbless hooks and release everything I catch in order to preserve the resource... I do it because I want that fish back in the water so some kid might have an opportunity to catch it...