Here is the sad part about that fish: After I caught it and reeled it in, and posed for the pic, I was about to put it back in the water. The guide said no, can't do that, State Law. After a fish has been caught and netted, they cannot be released because they will just die anyway from weakness and old age being so close to the spawning area. Basically, that fish lived his whole life waiting to return upstream to spawn, and I caught him just a few hours shy of his ultimate goal.
So I conked him over the head with a pipe, then ate him.