Properly Lipping a Bass

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I just wanted to ask the forum how do you go about lipping your bass? Where exactly do you place your thumb inside the fishes mouth. I ask because I may be asked to do the tournament director job at the first tournament of 2008. I know just lipping my own fish sometimes gives me bloody thumbs, so I must be doing something wrong. I can't imagine what they'd look like after the entire club has weighed in.

(We use a rubbermade box on a calibrated digital scale. We do not have a holding tank to place the fish until release, so the anglers keep their bags full of water. Each fish must be individually lipped, measured, and placed in the rubbermade bin for weighing in. The fish are then lipped again, and placed back in the anglers tournament bag.)