Here’s a terrific video from Bonefish & Tarpon Trust‘s Bahamas Effort Supervisor, Justin Lewis, who discusses why appropriate fish handling is necessary to the survival of your catch and to the total health of the fishery. Fly fishers yap about catch-and-release finest practices when it pertains to trout, and although things aren’t much various when it pertains to bonefish, there are a couple of ideas particular to the flats environment.
Here are the 14 things you ought to keep in mind prior to you go out on the flats:
1. Usage barbless hooks
2. Keep the battle brief
3. Usage 12-pound tippet or much heavier
4. Keep the fish damp
5. Usage tidy, damp hands
6. Remove Sun Gloves
7. Restore up until the fish sits best side up
8. Do not slosh fish backward and forward
9. Enable water to stream over the gills
10. If the hook is deep, cut the line
11. No Greater Than 15 seconds of air direct exposure
12. Do not get the fish by the gills or squeeze it
13. No Boga Grips
14. Take images with fish in the water or leaking
