With trout I use a Ketchum Release tool and never touch the fish or lift it from the water. With bass I lip them and then release and with bluegill I use the Ketchum Release tool unless they are large enough to eat and I am keeping gils for supper and then I will hold them in one hand, rod under arm and remove hook and then into creel.
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Warren
Warren
Fly fishing and fly tying are two things that I do, and when I am doing them, they are the only 2 things I think about. They clear my mind.