Anyone else bothered by this??

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TransAmWS6
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2013/06/04 21:29:08 (permalink)

Anyone else bothered by this??

Why didn't he just lip it. No reason to have your hand in a smallies gills



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    KingKool
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    Re:Anyone else bothered by this?? 2013/06/04 21:43:48 (permalink)
    Yep.
    Good way to kill a fish.........

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    Re:Anyone else bothered by this?? 2013/06/05 07:16:12 (permalink)
    I agree, no reason to gill him, his NAME is on the pic you posted. I suggest writing the "biologist" a letter to educate him on how to handle a fish. I would assume that's not his first gill job

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    Re:Anyone else bothered by this?? 2013/06/06 20:49:56 (permalink)
    this may be much ado about nothing.  in larger fish like this you can lift the fish by grabbing it under the jaw and OUTSIDE of the gills.  i land large pike and walleye like that regularly.  and anyway, lifting a large fish with your fingers in the gill cage is a **** good way to draw mots of blood - from both you and the fish.  it's just not clear from this photo where he's holding the smallie.
     
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    Re:Anyone else bothered by this?? 2013/06/06 21:37:13 (permalink)
    Phish is right. On a fish that size he probably isn't even touching the gills. You can safely grab the fish by the gill plate and not harm the fish. I'm guessing you've never caught a big musky or pike? That's how you grab and hold them without harming yourself or the fish.

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    Re:Anyone else bothered by this?? 2013/06/07 07:24:43 (permalink)
    Very true, but I wasn't gonna say anything. Thought the gill blasting police would come after me...
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    TransAmWS6
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    Re:Anyone else bothered by this?? 2013/06/07 19:37:13 (permalink)
    Ya I've caught big walleye pike ski, but its a smallmouth. Theres absolutely no reason to hold a bass regardless of size anywhere near the gills. Why risk holding it by the gill plate when it can easily be lipped?
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    Re:Anyone else bothered by this?? 2013/06/08 08:49:03 (permalink)
    very simple - "lipping" small bass is just fine but as they get bigger their body weight can cause the lower jaw to actually lock open or even break - mainly when the fisherman bends the jaw back excessively in order to hold it's mouth open - or to show off for the camera how big the fish's mouth is.
     
    this is a photo of a waterways biologist - I would "guess" that he knows a lot more than any of us about how to handle fish.
     
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    Re:Anyone else bothered by this?? 2013/06/08 11:41:40 (permalink)
    Better would be one hand in the mouth for control, the other hand underneath for support.

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