Gloves for handling bait?

[AJFishin]

Nice 👍 
Good luck out there

[croaker stroker]

I hate wearing gloves and have been cleaning fish and cutting bait for over 50 years. But a young friend is in the hospital right now on I.V. powerful antibiotics because of an infection that went "Sepsis". He got the infection from a "poke" from a fish preparation tool. He has been cleaningfish for over 25 years without incident.

I wont mention his name because he may not want me to.

His advise to me was to keep those tools clean.

[AJFishin]

Croaker hope your friend has a speedy recovery.

Last year I found out Calicos have a sharp gill plate that cut my thumb pretty bad and my boat looked like I bleed a fish on the deck I'm just glad I have real good first aid kit on board to clean, disinfect, put liquid stitch over the cut, and taped it up well.  Go figure it was the one day I had no gloves on board