Passaic River Pike

[UglyStick]

Great post, I appreciate you taking the time to write it as this topic is one of my major pet peeves - I also encourage Rob and Matt to make similar educational posts as well.

For a variety of reasons I rarely post any of my catches anymore but I'm still out there several times a week and frequently see fisherman mishandling fish and especially using inappropriate tackle for large and/or toothy fish. In way too many pictures I see handling where the fish will probably live but is being caused undue stress for no reason except to get a picture. I mainly fish alone and rarely take pictures of the muskies I catch just for this reason.

The funny part is that many of the people who read this thread and are guilty of mishandling don't even realize it...