Originally Posted by ahlandco

Thanks y'all -- your feedback is much appreciated. Actually, Corndog's photos are strangely the most reassuring. The second photo (no nose) is pretty close to what happened to the fish I caught.

I figured that in the end, it's better to be respectful of the Gorge and its wild trout than speculatively humane...plus mother nature DOES have a magical way of working things out either way.

Let's give that fish a couple years and keep our eyes out for a monster brown in the Gorge which is missing its nose.