I think we have these rules and regulations in place to keep people like you from keeping, eating, and thus removing healthy, trophy fish genetics from that particular population.
If you eating trout is your thing, put on some powerbait, corn, rooster tail, or even a BH pheasant tail and catch all the brookies and small browns you wish. You'll catch more, get to keep more, and won't really be harming anything. They taste better, too.
It's just my opinion, and you can do whatever you like, but it seems to me that if the fishery was ready to support huge numbers of 2 foot trout being harvested, TWRA would step up and adjust the regulations.
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