07-23-2004, 10:13 PM
Your third picture looks a little scary. According to Tom Pettengill, "Hooking the fish under the gills and hanging it up vertically can cause serious internal injury. A fish's internal organs are built to have support from surrounding water, not hanging vertically in the air."
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