This guy wasn't the guy that caught six in one day, as for raping the gills. He was holding the fish by the gill plates, though it woulds have been nice to see him hold them horizontal. When i went with the DGIF this past spring musky sampling, this was how i was taught to hold them. I was instructed that the safest way to handle a musky is by the gill plate.
As for me being a badass mofo, Im not....I just love talking sh!t on the forums, gets everybody talking !