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John Lock
Guest
On page 7 of todays Angling Times there's a picture of two pike (14lb and 11lb) being held up, one in each hand, by their captor. Holding them up by their gills can't be doing them any good. I'm constantly seeing pictures like this in ALL of the angling press. Not just pike but all species of fish over about 1lb are shown getting the one-hand treatment. I caught a small (2lb or so) tench last week, it was all I could do to hold it with both hands. To have tried holding it vertically with one hand would have meant I'd have to use immense finger-and-thumb pressure either side of it's head, and that would surely have put it at serious risk of injury. It's time the angling press stopped publishing photos of fish being held in potentially damaging ways.