Quote Originally Posted by hatidua View Post
I'm all for fillet & release in saltwater but have never really liked the consistency of freshwater fish. My wife asks why I don't bring any trout home and so I may have to drag a collapsable cooler along one of these days...
Agreed. Filet and release for saltwater and catch and release for freshwater so I can catch them again! However I let all of my rockfish that I caught up in Alaska last week go just due to their slow maturity rate. Both of these fish are about 50-60 years old. The yellow eye can live up to 120 years old. Unfortunately I wasn't able to take as beautiful pics as yours with a shitty cell camera and the roughness of the sea.