Yes it is a fantastic size fish, and yes its nice to know there are fish like this about. But there is now one less.

I'm sorry if I sound like a toff, but as far as im concerned anyone who takes a breeding size fish that used to be severly endangered out of our waters needs to be made aware that he is doing something very wrong.

Oh, yeah, and its not like I haven't done the same and I have family photos of this kina thing. On top of which there may have been some other issue that caused its death, its just time we all became in touch with what we need to do to make this a better world and catch more fish.

Thomas McGuane put it very nicely.

"We have reached a time in the life of the planet, and humanity's demands upon it, when every fisherman will have to become a riverkeeper, a steward of marine shallows, a watchman on the high seas. We are beyond having to put back what we have taken out. We must put back more than we take out."