Common Fish Handling Mistakes - Got Some?

[jim sylvester]

BEING ON A PERCH TO FISH PRODUCTIVE WATER BUT HAVE NO WAY TO LAND A FISH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[sok]

Originally Posted by jim sylvester

BEING ON A PERCH TO FISH PRODUCTIVE WATER BUT HAVE NO WAY TO LAND A FISH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Watching all the "bridge people" on the Mystic river bridge & City Square bridge in Charlestown,MA.
Catching schoolies & letting them drop.
25-30 feet to the water.
Smack.
I did it when I first started, decided there had to be a better way;then found an alternate location. Or two.
Not so much no way to land them.
Just no way to release the ones you can't keep.
Alive.

[Joe]

When guiding, I would cringe when somebody said they could handle the fish. All I kept thinking was, "Lawsuit, lawsuit, lawsuit."

On the rare occasions when I fish with other people around, I always offer to help land the fish. I just get nervous when I see somebody tentatively approaching a caught-fish, I don't want to be around when they start screaming.