So true, Antnee. I had a new mate get three digits chopped off by a big, old growler of a chawdawgy many years ago that had been gaffed, came off in the 'pit and was doing the usual going nuts thing. (Screwed up a perfectly good wahoo bite, too, taking him back to the hospital!) And years ago I also saw a woman standing in the crowd behind an Oregon Inlet charterboat get a horrible ankle wound when a mate tossed a big 'hoo on the dock and it slid head first across the dock and its open jaws sliced and diced her something awful - and I mean emergency room awful!

That's why I always shudder when I see bare footed and even decked shoe'd people standing in 'pits with berserko wahoos snappin' and slappin' around. What with all of that slippery slime and their strength, they can shoot across a deck and grab people meat in a flash...Gulp !

I am a proponent of that slide 'em in the door thing, but I wasn't the one to come up with it. As far as I know it was Ron. And you were the second person other than him that I ever heard speak of it, in fact.

'Course, maybe the difference in you and me is that you're concerned with losing tournament weight blood and I'm concerned with humans doing that same thing. Whatever, "open de door por favor and welcome aboard, Senior ChawDawgy."