Fish care. Things to increase the survival rates of fish.
1. Always wet your hands before touching a fish.
2. Wherever possible, remove barbs from hooks. This makes unhooking 10 times easier.
3. If possible, do not use trebles on spinners but only a single hook.
4. Try, whenever possible, to unhook a fish in the water and let it go free without ever leaving its environment.
5. Think very carefully whether you need to land a fish in a net and take it away from the Waterside for photography or weighing. Only do this for important specimens.
6. If a fish is tired after its struggle, support it gently in the shallows with its head facing up-river so oxygen passes through its gills. This can take many minutes, so don’t be impatient.
7. Never keep fish in a keep-net. They suffer both mental stress and physical discomfort-sometimes so great that death results.
8. Don’t be greedy. If you think you have caught enough fish, pack it in for the day and let them rest and recover.
9. Always make sure that a fish swims away from you as pristine as the moment that you hooked it.
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