I ended up with a staph infection a few years back in Canada. I spent my week on St Clair and my hands were so torn up by the end of the week from handling every single fish that was released out of my boat. As soon as I got home I spent some time in the hospital on IV's. I couldn't leave fishing early to get checked out, so it was pretty bad by the time I went home. I could feel it in the whole half of my body on the drive home. Now I very rarely handle muskies without a boga. Also had a finger snapped in half taking a muskie out of the net at ST Clair two years ago. Dangerous stuff.