Wet your hands, take your gloves off

Image may contain: text
Ascent Fly Fishing

This is why we wet our hands and remove our gloves before touching trout! Dry hands and gloves scrape the protective slime coat from trout and make them susceptible to harmful bacteria and fungus. This is a hell of a way to go, and fish that look like this are dead fish swimming. Photo cred to our client Kellen.