Most of the criticism of fishing redds seems to come from catch and release trout fly fisherman. Most of my fishing is with fly gear and for trout (wish we had better populations of warm water species). I have no problem with fishing redds, if legal. I personally don't find fishing redds very "sporty" and would prefer to fish for non-spawning trout. I think that some a catch-and-release trout mentality take it too religiously, and consider it sacrilege to fish the redds. I think that they take both catch-and-release and fishing the redds too seriously. I see their posts, and their pushing of these simplistic messages. Recently, someone posted that they were upset when I posted a photo of some trout kept legally from a LAKE that were gravid with eggs. There is no natural reproduction in this and most lakes in our area. There are things that are categorically wrong ethically, but these are not.
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