I've been seeing a lot of people at the fish cleaning stations keeping small fish. Remember that these fish won't be showing up 2-3 years down the road.
Yea, I know, but it was bleeding. If I get a hook caught in my hand, I'm not going to die, am I? If you throw it back, it has a chance. No chance in the cooler.
Charters are just as bad with this. They're just hurting them selves by keeping the small ones. If I chartered, I'd make it a rule "no small fish will be kept".
And you think the fishing was bad this year! Here comes the snowball effect