Handle in water by grasping line in one hand, other hand unhooks or cradles and lifts fish to be unhooked. Unhooking done with fingers or forceps. We also use a wire loop invention which allows unhooking fish without touching it or lifting from water. Rainbows get special treatment. They are actually easier to handle than arctic char due to their shape, and trait of going limp when cradled upside down.
Guides try to assist in landing and get photo session over quickly.
Guests are discouraged from standing with fish for photo especially over land. It is safer and a better photo if they kneel in shallow water and don t hold fish more than an inch above water. Fish are revived after landing by holding in moderate current until ready to swim away. Don't let it lie on its side or pump mud through its gills. Swallowed flies or lures causing fish hooked in gills results in high likelihood of mortality.