Holding bass for pics

[abkeenan]

37 minutes ago, Chief Grey Bear said:

Close it then. 

I guess you going off topic was just fine.

As if he needed your okay to go ahead and close the thread. Do you actually fish or just troll all the time? Because I've never seen you contribute in any way to the Table Rock forum other than to start arguments or disturbances, which isn't contributing at all.

[Chief Grey Bear]

Oh don't stress your dress. It was a bit of humor as was a few others posts.

[Sam]

Hey, some good came of this thread - I'm going to get a rubber landing net.  Just something I've never thought about, and I need one of those.  Besides it being kinder to the fish, I bet a rubber net wouldn't tangle so when I net a flopping, toothy walleye that's waving a two-treble-hook plug around.  Untangling such a mess in my string net usually keeps me out of action for awhile and sometimes I lose blood.

Also, now I'm thinking about starting a new account here and doing my posts on that.  User name:  Tom Foolery.  

[176champion]

My fish are trained when i catch them, they jump off the hook just as they getting close to the boat...dont have to handle them that way.

[Quillback]

4 hours ago, 176champion said:

My fish are trained when i catch them, they jump off the hook just as they getting close to the boat...dont have to handle them that way.

Yeah man, quit training the fish to do that, I've run into more than a few of those. 

[MOPanfisher]

I have done many an unintended catch and release in walleye, any more instead of trying to net them by myself  I swing them up and in, amazing how much better my percentage has been since then and a bunch of them do fall off, right into my boat.

[Flysmallie]

10 hours ago, Sam said:

Hey, some good came of this thread - I'm going to get a rubber landing net.  

 

I'm going to get one for trout fishing since I have the old style and what Bill said made some sense on the trout. Even though I usually try to free them before needing a net.

Used one while bass fishing for as long as I can remember. The lure tangling up is no problem with the rubber most of the time.

[Bill Babler]

The rubber nets are a wonder when it comes to the multiple hooked lures, but the Daiichi Death Traps I use on most stick baits will stick right thru that rubber.  It just amazes me.  They are the only hooks I have ever used that goes thru that rubber as easy as butter.  They be very, very sharp.

[Flysmallie]

It's not the only one that will go through it. I had one of those chrome rattle trap hooks get embedded in one while my dad was trying to net a double digit bass for me on lake fork. The fish saw that net and lost it's mind. Ended up getting one of the hooks stick in the net material but the fish was not in the net. We all know how that ended. Freak occurrence for sure. Still haunts me in my dreams.

[abkeenan]

2 hours ago, Flysmallie said:

It's not the only one that will go through it. I had one of those chrome rattle trap hooks get embedded in one while my dad was trying to net a double digit bass for me on lake fork. The fish saw that net and lost it's mind. Ended up getting one of the hooks stick in the net material but the fish was not in the net. We all know how that ended. Freak occurrence for sure. Still haunts me in my dreams.

When's the last time you spoke to your dad? lol.