Johnny Bass & Rizzo,
Fish was landed boatside and tried to take the hooks out with no plyers. proved too dificult so cut the line at swivel and held her for a quick poto and put her back in the water...took off with a splash and was doing just fine. As far as I know its better to let her go with a little shad rap that will rust off in 3 days than to screw around with the hooks for 20 minutes. I think I did the right thing...and i've got plenty of shad raps! Thanks for the pointers though.