[exDemMom]

Personally, I would have removed that fish from the gene pool, as its stupidity was obviously a detriment to the survival of the species.

It deserved the fate of stupid fish: being pan-fried, with herbs and butter.

[herkbird]

To remove that fish from the gene pool by cooking it in herbs and butter would have been illegal. The lake had a very strange slot limit on what size Largemouth Bass you could keep. The size of this fish was not legal to keep.

Not having a liberal interpretation on what the law really meant like the Klintoon's, I followed the letter of the law and threw it back. I never really liked this law in the cases where the fish was surely going to die, you still had to return the fish back into the lake instead of taking it home for dinner.

I imagine too many people would keep illegal fish and then try to use a Klintoon type excuse that the fish were going to die anyway. If you give some people an inch their always going to take the silverware, oop's, I meant a mile.

A dead fish floating on the surface of a lake , Foster's one from knowing the real truth.

[Carpet Kitten]

It deserved the fate of stupid fish: being pan-fried, with herbs and butter.

Say, that sort of reminds me of how my economics professor used to call state lotteries "stupidity tax."