Lemmesee here...............aye'yuh, it's been around 46 years +/- since I put a hook anywhere near water, never mind got any kind of serious about hunting poissons. That sort of leisure time left the building the year I turned 16 and it became legal for me to have a job and work in the summer. Probably for the best. the river system we used to frequent got declared as being poisoned by mercury about the same time. You could still fish in 'em but it had to be catch and release; and just cut the line and let it go if it came up to th surface with multiple eyes on stalks or other similar weirdness. Don't even think about handling it otherwise unless you had a bunny suit on and had a pair of heavy gloves and some long handled tongs to disgorge the hook.
Nick
Nick