I am passionate enough about these fish to take care of them like my own baby...don't have any babies yet but I swear one day we'll have a chrome one...everyone has their own ideas about the best handling procedures...net them don't them opinions...knotless nets or not, wool gloves or no gloves, barbless or barbed, bait or no bait...there is a fine line between fishing for them or becoming too passionate about them to even fish for them at all. I sit on that line and this rotten chum humpty dumpty ass of mine wants to fall either way...I bet there are others out there who agree with me.