Proper handling of fish to be released

[Kent]

My experience with those particular nets are they are great for landing fish with flies or other small single hooks; however, unless you want to quit fishing for several minutes to get your hooks out of the net after landing every fish, never use them with a lure that has more than one hook on them. I prefer the rubber nets; however, one problem with them is that they are heavy to handle even without a fish in them. As most of you know, I often use a lip gripper; however, if they aren't carefully used they can poke a large hole under the jaw or worse. Angling was simpler when I was a kid growing up. Except for a few years that requried trout to be over 7 inches long before they could be kept, it was legal to keep all fish caught up to one's limit, and in my family we kept our limits. All fish kept were eaten by us or our neighbors. More complicated these days with all of the slot limits and also with me keeping few fish.
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