How Many Times Have You Taken A Hook To The Body

[jhoffman]

Hooks have gotten me the most in fly fishing. You reach down to pick up a fish and that little #20 lets loose and right into the hand.

[Hyrule Bass]

never really deep or past the barb. aside from occasionally getting jabbed by a hookpoint, which im sure all of has done, i did get a crank bait stuck in my leg once. i was casting to the bank and went too far and got caught in a tree limb. a few easy yanks didnt do anything, my uncle was like ill drive over there and we can get it, i was being hardheaded though and was like "no, just watch out" gave a hard yank and the crankbait comes flying back at me like 300mph and then just stops, i dont hear it hit anything, next thing i know i feel a stinging in my leg. look down and a strike king 6XD is stuck in my shirt, jeans and leg with the front treble, and the rear treble is stuck through my shirt and in the back pocket of my jeans. first thing i did was cut the line to rid myself of the rod and reel being attached. then i went to work with the needle nose pliers. had to get the front one out first since that was in my leg. got it out because it wasnt that deep, but it was a little tricky because i was pulling against the rear treble hooked in my back pocket. got it out of my skin and just ripped it out of my shirt and jeans wit the pliers, then went to rip the back hook out and it didnt want to come, eventually i broke off the treble and got it out, reached in my back pocket and pulled the hook point out. it was getting dark out and i didnt feel like putting a new hook on. what sucked was it was the only bait i had in that color and my only 6XD at the time, and thats what was working for me as i boated a few bass earlier on it. next closest thing i had was a chrome and black Red Eye Shad. i tied that on. well, i was using a two piece rod and a few casts later, for the first time ever, a 2 piece rod flew apart on me while casting, not wanting my rod to get caught in the submerged trees i started reeling it in fast. while im doing so my uncle says dont catch no fish like that, sure enough i get it in and theres a 12 inch striper hooked on my r.e.s. So i get the fish in the boat and he has all three points of one of the trebles hooked in his mouth and they did not want to come out, ended up breaking his jaw, i felt bad about it as it was a floater when i finally got the hook out and put the fish back. called it a night after that, my uncle finally put me on some decent fishing from his boat and i was a comedy of errors all evening...

[BenB54]

I got myself pretty good last fall trying to remove a red eye shad from a dink that decided to start flopping around on me right as I grabbed the treble.

[Felix77]

I used to brag that in 25 years of fishing I had never been stuck past the barb.........I almost didn't get those words out of my mouth the last time I said it before it happened. Since then, 3 times. Once in the meaty part of my palm with a treble hook, ouch. Once in the forearm with a drop shot hook, ouch. And one I do not wish on my worst enemy, a treble hook...............under my thumb nail, double ouch.

 

Holy crap ... you sent shivers down my spine with that last one ... OUCH!

[joetomlee]

I was trying to tie a knot that didn't quite seem to cinch tight when somehow the lure pulled lose from my hand and jammed 2/3 of one of the treble hooks into my hand. One in the index finger and another in my thumb. My fingers were literally glued together by this treble hook. I managed to get it out of my index finger but I think it dug the hook further into my thumb as a result; that required a very expensive trip to the ER. Hook was buried deep into tissue and although they had me numbed up pretty good I can still think back and remember the feeling of flesh moving about when the nurse twisted it out!! Thank GOD that was the only time I had ever stuck myself past the barb. I am extremely careful now to make sure that never happens again. 

[FD.]

My son got me between the shoulder blades with a spook.  Both sets of trebles.  It took three yanks with pliers for him to get them out.

[JSPOONE]

I tend to get them in my hands.. my buddy got me with rattle trap in the back of my head one time...

and for my brother when we were younger took a hook through his eye lid

[SudburyBasser]

On the water: Never

 

For some reason when I'm at home and just moving tackle around I sometimes manage to stick myself. Fortunately never deeply.

[Diggy]

0 luckily, other than normal hook pokes

[BassThumb]

I've buried a barb in myself a half-dozen times with small hooks: #6 trebles and the like. It's really not that bad with these little hooks. I lucked out.

[papajoe222]

To date, only eight times and only one of those required a trip to the Dr. to remove it.  All but one time, I was landing and unhooking someone else's fish.  In their excitement, they'd pop their rod tip up, or quickly crank in the slack line that I asked for prior to unhooking the fish.  The last time this happened I was six hours from home and didn't want to trust the locals to remove it. I cut the split ring and the other two hooks off and taped the hooked finger to my ring finger and continued fishing for another four hours. Then I drove the six hours home only to find out my Dr. was on vacation and his associate had never removed a barbed hook from someone!  I had to retrieve a worm hook from my car to show HER what a barb was.  I swore then and there that the next time, if I could get to it, I'd cut it out myself. 

I finally learned my lesson, though.  Now I net my partner's catch and it's their responsibility to unhook it.

[Teal]

To date, only eight times and only one of those required a trip to the Dr. to remove it. All but one time, I was landing and unhooking someone else's fish. In their excitement, they'd pop their rod tip up, or quickly crank in the slack line that I asked for prior to unhooking the fish. The last time this happened I was six hours from home and didn't want to trust the locals to remove it. I cut the split ring and the other two hooks off and taped the hooked finger to my ring finger and continued fishing for another four hours. Then I drove the six hours home only to find out my Dr. was on vacation and his associate had never removed a barbed hook from someone! I had to retrieve a worm hook from my car to show HER what a barb was. I swore then and there that the next time, if I could get to it, I'd cut it out myself.

I finally learned my lesson, though. Now I net my partner's catch and it's their responsibility to unhook it.

Wow!! Now..fishing for four hours and then driving for six with a hook in your hand...now thats what i call tough! Thats sounds like a minor nightmare tho with the doctor.

My younger brother has been known to cut out his own hook

[Hooligan]

Nine times barb deep or deeper. The two worst were both Muskie fishing. I had a big fish hooked and on her way to the boat, about ten feet from the boat she gave a head shake and a 10" Weagle came screaming at me with all nine points of the 5/0 trebles baring down on me. I turned my head because I thought it was about head level. It wasn't, it got me in the thigh with 5 hook points buried. And I mean BURIED. That one took a hospital trip, after I cut the hooks and tried to push them through. 26 stitches, too.

The next was very similar, was throwing a Sennet CreepTonite and had a fish launch on it pretty close to the boat. I could tell the first time I sent the hook I didn't have her hooked well, so I set the hook again, dislodging the bait and drawing it toward me. This time, however, we were on Lake of The Woods about a two and a half hour run from anywhere that could do anything. Luckily the guy I was fishing with was a dentist, and a freak about first aid kits. He had lidocaine and a scalpel, as well as a staple gun with him so we cut it out there. Four staples in my right calf just below the knee and we were back fishing.

I got smacked in a tournament by my partner one time, buried an owner 4/0 round bend worm hook in my chest after he set the hook on a fish, didn't get the fish and it came back at me. Left that one in for a couple hours because we couldn't bear to go back to the ramp and kill fishing time. Luckily, we didn't because he caught a 4.95 and I caught a 6.55 that put us in 1st after a three day tournament. Had we left we would have been in 7th.

[DelfiBoyz_One_and_Only]

:cry3:When I was about 15yo me and 2 buddies thought it would be a great idea to go fishing in a 12 foot jon. We were all sitting down and me being the youngest I had the best seat (eyes rolling) the middle bench. Did not take long and I realized I had very limited casting opportunities so I got the bright idea to stand up and fish. I wasn't standing more than 5 minutes when I felt something pull on my arm. At the same time my buddy goes oh ship. I look down and I have a treble hook in my bicep close to my elbow. I go to pull it out with my hand and it doesn't come out. By this point I am all amped up and grab a pair of pliers. I start pulling with all my might as the other two guys (if that’s what you want to call them) are about to throw-up. It was not even bloody but my skin did look funny as it stretched. With a grunt and a final pull it popped. Everyone was ready to go I looked at my battle wound and realized there was a funny piece of flesh sticking out. I pulled on it and sure enough I pulled out a tiny blood vessel. It was kind of sick cause when I let it go it slowly went back in my arm. Thought I should get it checked out by a doctor so I did. They tied it with what look like fishing line (ironic) around it to close it up and pushed it back in, then put a Band-Aid on it. Too this day those friends get all upset when I bring it up in conversation. GOOD TIMES

Jay-

[BuckMaxx]

Twice.

 

First time I was about 12, we were catfishing on the Iowa river with chicken liver. I had to cast left sidarm under this limb and caught myself in the left earlobe. I felt the hit and followed the line my ear lobe to a big wad of warm stinkin chicken liver. I effin FREAKED! The older guy I was with had to push it thru and cut it off. HURT LIKE HELL!!

 

Second time was about 10 years ago. A buddy and I were both in the front of the boat. We were casting 1/2 jig and craws. He would leave the jig about 18" from his rod tip. He winged it and stuck it had right in my shoulder blade. Ofcourse he did what any good friend would do and laughed his ass off about it. I yelled at him "yank it out before I get feeling back". He yanked it and out came about a dime size hunk of meat. We continued to fish.

 

Third time... lets hope it doesn't happen.

[Oregon Native]

Have done it several times in the hand. Rattle traps and spots every time I hear them remind me of the times they've bit me in the hands. Worst was on Clear Lake California. Had a treble in hand and on the other treble the fish was still wiggling. Dannnnnnnnng it hurt....fish didn't make it!!!!

Tight Lines

[zip pow]

Three times once in the upper ear past the barb my buddy got excited casting because we were wearing crappie out . He thought I'd be mad And I was laughing so hard I could breathe .Once in the spine when I was four years old hit a limb casting and a safety hook buried up right in my back bone .I remember it hurt bad. Once fly fishing in the neck let my loop get to big and I paid for it.

[Jaiden]

My little brother's hooked me before, nothing past the barb though.

[CPBassFishing]

Once so far......1 treble barb from a BPS Egg wakebait that my mom insisted I went to the hospital for....the novacaine hurt worse wearing off than the hook did coming out. Not fun. Learning how to take a hook out is extremely important.

3 easy steps

Step 1: push the eyelet down against the skin

Step 2: take a tied loop of line and slip it around the bend

Step 3: hold the eyelet down and give the loop a good quick yank, the barb will pop right out.

Slap some neosporin on with a band-aid and go back to fishing.

[Matt Jungblut]

I have had 2 fish hook me   1 I did my self  I also hooked my brother 1 a hot august day temp around 100  and he passed out said the sun go to him lol

 

same brother  when he was probally 12 or so was fishing with our cousin when he hooked him with a crankbait in the chin and lip both hooks buried deep. They had rode there bikes fishing so my brother gos into the casino and asks to use the phone. The lady was like is this an emergency my cousin takes his hand away from his face and says I dont know you tell me.

[Bluebasser86]

My dad hooked me in the top of a head with a big, deep diving crank. The impact of the bait hitting my head was the most painful part. 

Hooked myself in the back of the calf with a small rapala floater, pushed the barb through and cut the hook, for sure the most painless one.

Had a fish jump and fire a baby -1 back at me. I put my arm up to block it (I was in a 2 man so no where to run) and buried it in my forearm. Lucky enough the point had gone in and popped out the other side so a quick clip and it was back out.

Was posing for a picture with my PB brown trout with the jerkbait still in it's mouth. It flopped and drove the hook into the side of my index finger. Again I got lucky and she flopped again and ripped the hook back out. It hurt but it was over so fast that it wasn't as bad as having to do it myself.

Worse one was when my dog grabbed my buddies original Rapala when he wasn't paying attention and got a hook in the upper lip. I tried to grab him by the muzzle so he didn't get the rest of the bait in his mouth but he jumped back right when I grabbed him and he stuck me in the back of my index finger with the other hook. I just laid on top of him to hold him down while my buddy clipped the hook that had gone right through my dogs lip. The hook in my finger was all the way to the bend in the hook so I had to make a trip to the ER. Have a 50 pound scared dog attatched to you by a hook is not a good time. 

[TNBassin']

Did anyone see the MLF video of KVD sinking some trebles of a jerk bait into the camera man's forearm?? LOL, that was crazy stuff! If you're gonna get snagged, you might as well get snagged by the best. I throw cranks alot when I'm out on the boat with my kids, and my biggest fear is hooking one of them during a cast. If they hook daddy, that's ok. 

[11justin22]

When I was about six or so me and dad were in a Jon boat. I was throwing a rattle trap. I got to leaving more and more slack on the end of the line every cast cause I could throw it farther. Stupid me...... I went to cast and the trap hit me in the side of the head. The rear treble went through my ear lobe and the trap pulled my ear around and the front treble stuck n my eyebrow to the bend. I freaked and threw my poll. Dad turned around when I went to squealing. He freaked cause my face was covered in blood. Thought it had went I to my eye. I was crying saying "my poll! My poll!" Him thinking I was upset my poll was in the water " said quit worrying bout your d$&@ poll" lol then he realized it was pulling on the side of my head and pulled it up. He cut the barb off on the ear one. poked the other one on out and cut the barb off. Still laugh today about him freaking out and me "worrying" bout my poll

Also worse then I remember that hurting, and I remember it hurting, when was a teenager me and dad were fishing. He got hung in a willow tree with a jig. He was jerking and it popped loose about the time I turned around. It was flying at my head and I threw my hand up. The lead head smacked me right on the knuckle. Freaking hurt!!!! Thought it broke it. When the swelling finally went down after three or four days it was fine.

[LFT]

2 times in the head...by my Grandma. I don't fish with her without wearing a hat anymore. The kicker was after the first time when we had to cut the torpedo's treble hook with wire cutters, she replaced the hook and got me with the exact same lure 3 months later. Hook me once, shame on you. Hook me twice, I won't tick grandma off again.

[mnbassman23]

Only one time that was serious. I was 8 years old and casting for muskies. At the time the only way I could cast bigger 9"-11" baits was with an overhead cast. I had a 9" Suick on and when I went to cast the lure went straight up in the air and came down on the top of my head. I felt a THUMP and really had no idea what happened. My dad looked over at me (trying not to panic) and grabbed the hook cutters. Luckily I only had one treble that went through my hat and only 1 hook off the treble went past the barb. Needless to say our day trip got cut a few hours short and we made a 30 minute trip to the ER and the doc shot me up with Novocain and ripped it out.