The Northern California Fly Fishing Board

Recently while fishing for steelhead I had an interesting experience. I had caught a decent hatchery fish and noticed it had a distinctive mark on it's head and after carefully releasing it i hooked another fish on the very next cast, this time it didn't fight as good as the first one and Uppon landing it, I notice the same mark on the side of it's head, I had caught it again. Then one week later in the same riffle I catch the same fish for a third time. it had recovered much of it's energy and fought pretty good on the following week. anyways this particular fish had been caught at least one time prior to my encounters. uppon the final release it quickly darted off leaving a splash of water in my face!
Proof positive C+R works if done right.