Have read a fair few articles about using a towel or similar for fish you are about to release. Same or similar articles also say you should not handle fish with your bare hands.
Am I allowed to dispute this????
Bare hands certainly increases the number if cuts and spikes I get from fins, and using a towel certainly reduces them... but what is best for the fish?
Theory apparently is that bare hands takes the slime off. But is this really true? Towels seem to take a heap more off than hands. And usually when fishing my hands are either wet, or at least damp, so wouldn't this be better for the fish instead of a towel that takes the slime straight off?
Interested in opinions.
Cheech