Finally Happened......

[A-Jay]

I had very spirited pike get me good a few years back - managed to remove it myself - wasn't pretty.

 

Hooks in My hand are always MY Fault and a display of foolish carelessness.  Swore that would be the last time.

 

Fishing alone mostly and especially at night.   So when throwing treble hook baits, I Always use a net and then a boga grip to remove the fish from the net and to hold the fish and finally long nose pliers to remove the hooks.  

 

I do not ever need to touch the fish or the bait with my hands.

 

Hook Cutters are at the ready but I refuse to give any fish the chance to get me again.  

 

A-Jay

[Dogmatic]

I need to buy a gripper so it doesnt happen to me. Its just a matter of time. Wonder what the best ones are ?

Baker (just as solid as a Boga, for half the price), Make digital ones too...

But barbless is the way to go.

[the reel ess]

Baker (just as solid as a Boga, for half the price), Make digital ones too...

But barbless is the way to go.

Sure you're right. But if I'd been barbless last night, I would very likely not have landed that 5 lb. fish.

[Sam]

I had to go to the Patient First to have a stainless steel trailer hook removed on July9th.

 

Still taking antibiotics just to be on the safe side.

 

Used the spinnerbait this weekend with that trailer hook (doctor could not cut the shaft) but no bites.

 

Glad you are OK and you are right: sooner or later it will hit most of us.

[Canyon explorer]

Gets us all sooner or later. I've had four , but only one I had to cut at the head and push on thru. No ER 's needed if you get a tetanus shot every five years.

[bigbill]

I have a long nose ER hospital pliers. Never really important till three decades when a feisty chain pickerel swallowed my bomber crankbait. My older brother warned me about them biting. I carried that pliers in my scent box. That fish tried to bite me multiple times. Both trebles were deep but I saved him.

Fish hooks? I was salt water fishing casting a open face reel. The hook dug in above my ankle. It stopped 8" up my leg. My dad was with me, he was a medic in the army. He fixed it up.

[Dennis1972]

dang, that is something to think about! i have been pretty brave and lucky i guess when grabbing LMB by he mouth. i will be more careful when i think about what happened to you.

[southernson1989]

Somehow one of my PawPaw's crankbaits ended up in my bed and when I slid my leg up when I woke up it hooked me in the heel and the couch simultaneously. I was stuck for a little while. The worst time was when he hooked me in the back of the head with three trebbles all the way to the curve after I had just caught the first fish after two hours of nothing. He reached for his players and I said absolutely not and we went to the hospital. Did get one my favorite BBQ sandwiches though afterwards and the doctor let me keep the the three stats he used on me. I still use em to unhook fish 12 years later.

[Quesenek]

Typically my injuries come from shutting my fingers in my tackle boxes, that I remember I haven't been hooked bad enough to talk about however now you guys have me thinking about a lip grabber or something of the sort to land the fish.

[EvanT123]

Best $15 bucks I ever spent

I have 2 of them.

[NoLuck]

Its not just hooks folks, I stabbed myself with a knife while trying to cut a zip tie on my pole, it went DEEP. OUCH  

I use pliers after hearing these posts!!

[the reel ess]

Best $15 bucks I ever spent

I have 2 of them.

Do they float? I have a habit of losing good pliers off my kayak. I need a lanyard with a float to hold every tool I carry. That way I either carry them all or forget them all.

[hoosierbass07]

 All these replies and others like them are the reason I crush down all the barbs on all the treble hook lures I have and usually the barb on my regular hooks too.  

[mackroper]

In middle school my dad and I were in a small John boat. I was in the front seat, he in the rear. On my back swing I hit him in the face with my crank bait, the rear treble hook going into his mouth. On my follow through I set all the hooks, two through his lower lip one through the top. It's been 15 years and he still won't get on a boat with me.

[Meldawg]

I myself buried a treble hook straight into my index finger all the way to the crook in the treble. I was by myself bank fishing close to the house. I thought for a minute or two about going to the er, decided I would try pulling it out myself. I couldn't turn the hook and poke it back through to crimp the barb because of the angle it entered my finger. So I grabbed my pliers and decided to just pull it out, by the way I dont think I would do it again. I pulled it out on the 5th pull with all my might, came a hair of passing out from the pain. I wouldn't advise doing it yourself. But I didnt want to spend 3 hours in the er when the fish were biting, so I went home put some alcohol on it and bandaged it up and went right back to fishing.

 

Since then my wife was kind enough to buy me some rapala gloves for Christmas. They are a life saver.

[Skeeter Dan]

I got hooked in the neck by my Big Brother when we were kids. My uncle worked it back out with the barb still on it. 50ty years later my hands and fingers don't function very well plus my eye sight makes it hard for me to tie on hooks and baits of any kind. I hook my self on a regular bases. Keeping my shots up to date is a must. I have a Net, Boga and pliers oh yeh and gloves to keep me from getting hook after landing a fish. I gues you could say I'm back asswards.

[Neil McCauley]

Happened AGAIN yesterday.

 

Right thumb this side, the distal joint. Hook was a #2 KVD and a little past barb deep. I worked it out backwards.

It was a great LMB though, almost worth it.