No-Kill areas were born to protect local fish and educate anglers, but recent interpretations of this noble idea have turned it into something that is totally opposite. Instead of giving native fish a chance to thrive, along with prizing the attitude of releasing a wild creature, some no-kills seem nowadays to promote a compulsive act of catching a fish after the other. All this has nothing to do with the Catch and Release discipline and with Fly Fishing as sustainable and ecological activity. The compulsive take and put of stocked fish is more similar to the work in a chain gang. Where is the poetry of fly fishing? Where are the highest ideals of practicing a discipline in balance with the nature? Where is the 'sport' and the challenge?
Of course it is not all black and white and there are fading grays and different degrees of these realities, but the trend is quite concerning.