No, my interest in how to achieve better flavor doesn't relate to my moral judgement on catch-and-release. Once I decided to kill it I stopped worrying about it

No, my interest in how to achieve better flavor doesn't relate to my moral judgement on catch-and-release. Once I decided to kill it I stopped worrying about it suffering. For example, I find lethal injection to be absurd. So the state decides to kill someone. Instead of taking them out back and blowing their brains out (or, if you want to get less gruesome, using that thing that punches a cow's brain out), we make them wait 20 years for death, and then swab their arm with alcohol before giving them an injection which might actually cause them to writhe in agony for an hour. People want something dead, but they aren't willing to face what that means. Anyway, for what it's worth, keeping the fish alive in a stringer or bucket doesn't freak them out. Putting them in a dark bucket keeps them pretty calm. And poking their brain out is the swiftest most painless death they're gonna get.