I for one applaud him for keeping the fish. He caught the fish of a lifetime...it was legal to keep...and not a thing danged thing wrong ethically in doing so. I hope it hangs on his wall and brings him a smile every time he looks at it.

And those who criticize him for doing so can go home and light another incense over their personal trout alter...since that opinion is theirs and theirs alone, and of no consequense for anybody with half a brain. They've taken a single useful management "tool", and turned it into an ethical statement. I for one do not concur. There is zero ethical issue in the killing of a fish, on water where the ecosystem can support it.

There....I feel better now.