hi their uk420n fisherman,the trout seasons finished and the salmons soon to be finished,any of you into grayling angling on the fly,i use the czech nymphs their deadly on our rivers in scotland,t weight keeps them down in the fast curents,im looking forward to going out this year,gor a nice new jacket to keep me warm along with my neoprenes,because it frozen down the river at this time of year,ill hav to get a windproof lighter 2 for my pipes full of weed ,i must have fell n 50 potholes while wading stoned on the river haha.biggest last year was 4 lbs caught and relesed.

I was musing the other day about where fishing licenses come from -viz. a license to harvest fish.
The full-on game license allows you to take salmon and sea trout home for the pot - and different waters have different catch limits.

.. and salmon / sea trout taken have to be recorded - presumably not brown trout ....

.. where I was going .. I think is there's no law says you can't actually go fishing "accidentally" for sea trout and salmon - so long as you put them back... I know it's irrelevant as the Grayling is treated as a coarse fish license-wise.

As you were.

in scotland if they have a tag on the salmon you have to return it,their are various counters on the rivers its just to see how many made it this year,as for grayling theirs no law up here that says to return them,but they dont make good eating ive ate loads o them their boney as hell.