...btw, there is a dark cloud on this sampling procedure. The first YP inhaled the hook and worm. Even tho the barb was crushed and Phil has good experience with removal, it was buried. He asked me if I wanted to cut the hook and leave it or try for a v low percentage of survival. I told him to pull it out. Floater. The silver lining is that both Dski and I needed to have this happen to bolster the deliniation between sport/food and pets. I think I felt worse knowing what I put into getting it to that point, as opposed to killing a pet. We're good with it, particularly knowing it will provide another link in the food cycle. Yeah, I know...kinda dopey, but it's just the way it is. - Would it have been better, in the big picture, to have cut the hook and let it go?
