12lb 9oz Lk Hopatcong Brown trout...

Don't know all the facts but personally hate seeing a trophy 49 inch musky killed for a photo shoot. When will people learn these fish should be handled with kid gloves and released so someone else has the privilege of maybe catching a fish of a lifetime themselves. These fish are true trophies and should be protected. That fish was probably caught any number of times giving the lucky angler the catch of a lifetime. State should protect these fish, we'd have 50 lb. - 60 lb. fish in the state if they did. Sorry for the rant but it takes forever for these fish to reach that size, it's criminal in my world killing one just to put it on your wall when you can have a replica which will last longer just as easily. Doesn't make any sense to me at all! Someone should hang Norm Small on the wall!