Bear Lake - poor fish handling

[drpepper]

I must confess, on a past trip to big blue I caught one of the nicest cutthroats I had ever caught, in the process of trying to get it out of the net carefully to release it because it still had its fins, and was not a keeper, I ended up with one barb through my thumb one still in the fish and one tangled in the net, at that point all carefulness ended, I put the fish in the bottom of the boat and sat on it to try and hold it still while I found my pliers to cut the hook where it was connected to the fish and my thumb. after a short battle we were separated and because it was an illegal fish to keep, I tossed it over the side not really caring if it survived or not. so sometimes its just not possible to do everything the right way. I spent the next while trying to push the hook the rest of the way through my thumb to get it out.
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