Global Moderator Bluebasser86 Posted February 4, 2020 Global Moderator Posted February 4, 2020 17 minutes ago, SuperDuty said: Ouch! Yup that's exactly what happened to me last summer and also happened in my dominant hand. And with nothing to put pressure on the hook/skin, it made it very difficult to push the hook through the skin and past the barb. Stupid part is I wasn't even fishing. I was rigging up tackle to go fishing the next day and had taken this 110 off my rod and put a different one on, but when I put it in my jerkbait box I managed to close the lid over the split ring with the treble hanging out the back of the tackle tray. So when I dropped the tray back in my boats storage, BAM! Thankfully the weight of the tray pulled/pushed the hook through as far as it did. I'd been working on it for a minute when I stopped to take the picture. I was sweating quite a bit despite it being in the 30's, needed a little "don't pass out" break. 1 Quote
SuperDuty Posted February 4, 2020 Posted February 4, 2020 38 minutes ago, Bluebasser86 said: Stupid part is I wasn't even fishing. I was rigging up tackle to go fishing the next day and had taken this 110 off my rod and put a different one on, but when I put it in my jerkbait box I managed to close the lid over the split ring with the treble hanging out the back of the tackle tray. So when I dropped the tray back in my boats storage, BAM! Thankfully the weight of the tray pulled/pushed the hook through as far as it did. I'd been working on it for a minute when I stopped to take the picture. I was sweating quite a bit despite it being in the 30's, needed a little "don't pass out" break. Kinda the same way for me. I was pulling a lure out of my tackle box and somehow another lure caught my hand and then the other hook caught the tackle box and as I pulled my hand out of the box, it pulled the hook deep into my hand. It didn't really effect me much other than knowing I didn't have any cutters with me which is why I grabbed the lure and gave it a few very hard yanks and realized it wasn't budging at all. I probably coulda yanked it out but it would have taken a huge chunk of my hand with it and I wasn't up for that. I was just getting ready to use my knife to cut it out when my wife seen the kayakers coming down the creek. We happened to know one of them so it worked out alright. Quote
NittyGrittyBoy Posted February 4, 2020 Posted February 4, 2020 https://www.foxnews.com/us/florida-evergades-missing-kayaker-rescued-video Another Yakker 1 Quote
Hook2Jaw Posted February 4, 2020 Posted February 4, 2020 @NittyGrittyBoy, I'm glad they found dude. @Bluebasser86, note to self, no Katsuage Outbarbs. 1 Quote
SuperDuty Posted February 4, 2020 Posted February 4, 2020 He's very lucky he wasn't food for something. I'm anxious to hear more about the details. Just seems odd he wasn't still with the kayak unless he just got so weak that he was unable to hang on to it any longer. 1 Quote
NittyGrittyBoy Posted February 4, 2020 Posted February 4, 2020 Everglades is the worst place to be floating. Colder water was actually an advantage to him, even though I doubt he was thinking that 1 Quote
Hook2Jaw Posted February 4, 2020 Posted February 4, 2020 43 minutes ago, NittyGrittyBoy said: Everglades is the worst place to be floating. Colder water was actually an advantage to him, even though I doubt he was thinking that For sure. I spend so much time in the water at work that it's either I like the cold or the reptiles. Quote
SuperDuty Posted February 4, 2020 Posted February 4, 2020 I've spent quite a bit of time in the Everglades and that's definitely a water I wouldn't want to spend a couple of days floating in. Quote
Ratherbefishing75 Posted February 9, 2020 Posted February 9, 2020 Man I never carried a kit On my canoe but I’m thinking it’s going to happen this year especially now that my sun wants to go out more with me 1 Quote
txchaser Posted September 26, 2021 Posted September 26, 2021 On 1/30/2020 at 1:25 AM, txchaser said: I learned on here to carry pliers strong enough to cut a hook. I've gotten one out stuck past the barb before, but I can see getting hooked in places where that's not possible if you are alone. The follow-up post I never wanted to make... Today I needed the side cutters. ? I was putting away some tackle, and picked up an open box. Apparently one of the hooks from a lipless was caught on something, and as luck would have it, my thumb was right under the other hook. 6th sense has great hooks, if you are on the catching end of the lure. Not so much the caught end of it. Usually I can do the braid trick but with pliers, but that hook was not moving. Probably the deep EWG bend and a big ol' barb. Of course, it was dark already, and I was fishing alone. Anyway I have other stuff to do than pay for and watch a doctor do the same thing I'm going to do, but with lidocaine and three extra hours. Anyway it was close enough to the skin to jam it out the other side. I thought that part was going to be easier; it wasn't at all, and I had to yank twice to get it to poke through. Pulled out the side cutters and it cut through that big hook like butter. Related, is there a trick to getting the deep EWG-style hooks out? If you don't have a pair of side cutters, tab over to amazon right now and get a pair. The 15 bucks saved me a lot of drama. 1 1 Quote
schplurg Posted September 26, 2021 Posted September 26, 2021 17 hours ago, txchaser said: ................. If you don't have a pair of side cutters, tab over to amazon right now and get a pair. The 15 bucks saved me a lot of drama. Thank you, I just went to Amazon to check 'em out. Here's a search result list for anyone who wants them: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=side+cutters&ref=nb_sb_noss_1 Quote
txchaser Posted October 7, 2021 Posted October 7, 2021 On 9/26/2021 at 4:12 PM, schplurg said: Thank you, I just went to Amazon to check 'em out. Here's a search result list for anyone who wants them: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=side+cutters&ref=nb_sb_noss_1 I went and looked, these are the ones I actually bought. Mini bolt-cutters. https://www.amazon.com/Capri-Tools-CP40209-40209-Klinge/dp/B01018D2CS/ Quote
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