The incompetent fish handling in the video below, filmed in 2015, is almost unbelievable. You'd imagine that the people involved had never handled and returned a pike in their life before. Oh, hang on.....
If Kenny Sloan hadn't been there with his camera it doesn't take a genius to imagine what the fate of the pike would have been.
Click through to read Kenny's description of what went on. It's farcical, incompetent, and outrageous. Almost beyond belief that a fishery agency can carry on like that in this day and age.