A good friend and I went fishing today and I hooked a fairly large native fish. I asked my friend help land the fish. While he was landing I asked him to cut the line at the hook because I did not want to harm the fish in any way. He preceeded to grab the fish and run his hands up thru the gill plates and cut the line. While all this is happening, I saw blood on his hands. Immediately afterwards my heart sank and the whole moment is ruined.

Here is the advise I need: How do you tell a friend, kindly, that you don't agree with his landing methods on these beautiful fish. Can someone please tell me, so I feel better, that this particular fish has any chance at living. She seemed to swim away fine, but there was that blood. Also will some of you guys put out the word to some of the naive people out there how to properly relese these wonderful animals. Thanks