my fish is out of the water but its not on the dirt. dirt scrapes off the protective slime that covers the fish. If you look closely, or you want me to post up a bigger picture, you will see that I am standing in the water and there is water running off of the fish.
Taking it out of the water is fine but having roll around on the beach is what gets me.
As far as practicing what I preach.... where does it say anything bad about having it out of the water as being bad. I said you can take pictures in the water. That is much better for the fish than beaching it and then taking a picture.