A n00bish question

[An00bis Maximus]

Hi everyone, this is my first thread and post, so give me a ghey yay, or whatever other hellish welcome you usually do.

I joined this forum because I saw some attitude inna thread I found last week that seemed kinda smartass, so I knew I had to give this place a shot.

So anyway, I got divorced, and I'm allowed to fish again. The thing is, I just moved to a new area, and thankfully there are few cats and carp to be found in the area, yay, I can catch things without using live bait, sheew!

Okay, so we know I'm not a bait fisherman, and I seem to have recently become hooked on bass, hell yes! Oh, but the question eh?

Okay, *sigh*, the only fish I ever have caught besides mudsuckers is pike, with those I always used spinner bait, and I knew how to pick them up, but all I find here in this new area are bass. How do I hold them after I land them, and while I remove the hook?

EDIT: Thanks to the admin who removed the horrendous mistake I made.