If it was such a problem (which to me just sounds like a theory), there would be signs at boat docks as well as info on proper bass handling in fishing license brochures, magazines, and books. Why would TV personnel with hundreds of thousands of viewers encourage to hold a fish wrong?

And like I said before a short while ago and when you told me the same thing last month in another topic, if a fish was indeed mishandled by swinging it around without care, by holding only it's mouth, I can see real damage happening to the fish.

Last edited by stargazer; 01/05/13 09:37 PM.