You released them after having them on a stringer for awhile?! What’s the point of that, they would be too stressed and more than likely die.
Those in photo are dinner.. the 8 that got release were smaller fish that were thrown back to grow.. if I was to fillet small fish there would be no meat on them so why waste a fish for no meat they were legAL to keep but to skinny to fillet.. ?? We threw them back right away with no harm done.. and took less then our limit so no biggie .. sorry you miss read that..