Traumatizing fish

[mtmuley]

We used to traumatize them all the time on the Bitterroot growing up. The river got famous and over run with river pimps. mtmuley

 

[kwyeewyk]

Fish therapy

 

[Southern Elk]

Trolling for a scrap^

How about some numbers to process?
Upper Madison ...you know, Montana? 225, 000 people fish this river EVERY year. If every person caught and killed one trout it would virtually wipe out the entire fish population.
That is why people catch and release and there are limitations to how much you can kill.

Is that the real number? Obviously it’s a sh!t ton of people, but I didn’t realize it was that many.