Cover Photo on Texas Parks and Wildlife.....

[crazy_cajun02]

  It drives me nuts to see these tournement fisherman holding a fish that is going to be released with their fingers in the gills.  I don't know if the guys on the july issue are really tournement fisherman but they are poertrayed as such, and he has a red with two full fingers inside the gill cover.  Do people not realize that is equivalant to shoving a pipe in your lungs? 

[PNG Proud]

You see that all thje time.

What kills me is those bass fishermen on TV that hold the fish out of the water for like 1-1 1/2 mi., instead of getting it right back into the water.

[crazy_cajun02]

  I do see it al the time and it drives me nuts.  Bass fisherman especially, of course their not nearly as bad about fingers in the gills as saltwater fisherman.  I tell you what i can't go fishing anymore without my "boga Grips" they really save the fingers on snapper.