I'd like to clarify one thing and that is that I would never look down my nose at someone for keeping a big fish. People who keep multiple trophies per season, those are the ones that bug me. I have a few friends that do this and yes I have killed a few big ones and I regret it now.
Catching a trophy is the culmination of all your efforts and hard work as an angler. But now that I've made the change to releasing the big ones, it's much more satisfying than saying "hey look what I caught!"
That was really the point I was trying to make.
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