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Interesting thread. I'm confused a bit though by the various comments. When a guy posts pictures of dead fish (referring to the dead brown pics, 4 mins apart, nobody can say anything. But when a get together is organized to clean up the river and is catch and release based, guys are up in arms. Something doesn't make sense.

These tribs are pounded hard every year but most need to understand that perhaps for every fish that is harvested or dies, hundreds of fish are safely in the sanctuary. I never worry too much about fish mortality unless someone is doing something illegal.

Some of guys need to relax. Kudos to the guys putting on the event. Less garbage, food for needy and river awareness.

And PS if he is allowed to keep the fish from that trib, it has enough for people to take if there wasn't many fish in there the the limit would b 0

That answer is something I would expect from someone who probably hasn't the slightest clue about fishery management.  Do you realize what one dead brown means to a river with a few hundred that run it all together?    Very few, and I mean very few places and species in Ontario have a zero limit for both conservation and sport licenses.  Just because you can doesn't always mean you should.  Especially if that resource is important to you,  you want to be able to enjoy it for the rest of your life and hopefully your children one day.  I made that comment because its fairly obvious what river he caught that fish and hopefully he thinks twice next time about killing a brown for a few pictures.  I really hope he didn't eat that fish though, from Lake O, disgusting.  Browns sit in shallow warm water all year eating greasy bait fish.  

 

Im glad I got the attention of a few guys more than likely new to river fishing or with a lack of general salmonid knowledge.  

 

 
 
 
Got this monster brown at a West Ont. Trib. Same as the one from Friday.I fell into the river chasing this bugger. Wader soaked. cell phone soaked.Darn!! I was freezing like crazy. It pays off in the end landing it.Lost 2 smaller browns as well.Lost 1 chrome too. Can any one guess its weight based on the pic??

The weight of that fish is dead. Way to go.