Awww man

[Moto]

So I've realized that too many people are getting lures stuck all over their body - in their hand, their face, everywhere. This is probably the worst part about fishing. How can this be prevented if it can be?

[MN Fisher]

Pay attention

Be careful

 

50+ years of fishing, I've NEVER 'caught' myself or a fishing partner.

[813basstard]

Aim for the water.

[roadwarrior]

[Steveo-1969]

Don't use hooks. Problem solved.

[Quarry Man]

use a net and pliers, be alert to your surroundings

 

 

 

or just don't go fishing

[the reel ess]

I've never gotten a hook in myself or anyone else past the barb. Knock wood. Just be careful and it helps to fish alone. You can use a net to avoid thrashing fish. I fished with a guide for peacocks once and he all but shamed me for not grabbing a fish that had a face full of trebles. Peacocks don't just give up when you lip them. It got off and he said...well, I won't tell you what he said. He told me you could break his spinning rods boat flipping them and they would get banged up and die more easily. I just went back to fishing hard as I could and caught some more.

[Koz]

I use fish grippers when landing a bass. It’s not always the most convenient, but I haven’t been stuck yet.

[Bankbeater]

I’ve been hooked twice in 30 years. Last year it was my own fault for not being careful and the time before that it was either take a hook in the hand or the head. 

[Big Hands]

4 minutes ago, Bankbeater said:

I’ve been hooked twice in 30 years. Last year it was my own fault for not being careful and the time before that it was either take a hook in the hand or the head. 

Probably didn't have much time to contemplate the situation either.

[Bankbeater]

34 minutes ago, Big Hands said:

Probably didn't have much time to contemplate the situation either.

Nope. I had time to lean out of the way. My hand was where my head was when the hook got me. 

[GReb]

Had a treble go through my middle finger in 2001 while unhooking a 4 pounder. It was in my nail bed and urgent care had to perform surgery. Since then I’ve been OCD and always use pliers when dealing with trebles. 
 

Closest call since then was a jerkbait hit me in the calf going 100 mph but didn’t go past the barb. Drew blood though 

[Bird]

Over 40 yrs of fishing and never sunk a hook in this person, I hate self inflicted pain. 

I throw a lot of trebles and use grippers regardless of mouth size.

 

Been clunked in the chest a time or two from trying to free a lure but respect those hooks.

[papajoe222]

Most anglers get hooked in one of three ways: Another angler hits them with their lure, a fish head shakes as you attempt to land, or unhook it and in an attempt to free a lure, it slingshots back at the angler.  The first can be avoided by issuing a warning to your fishing partner prior to the first cast. 'If you value the family jewels, don't hit me with your lure," works well.  Don't hand land bass by reaching into their mouth to lip them. No net, firmly grab the lure and lift. Better yet, for both you and the fish, unhook them while they're still in the water.  You're going to let her go anyway, right? Lastly, don't pull on your line, with your rod, or by hand, in an attempt to free a snag. If the lure suddenly frees itself, it'll shoot straight back in the direction you're pulling (at you). Mono and fluorocarbon make this worse as they stretch and act like a rubber band when it happens.

[schplurg]

10 hours ago, Mottel said:

So I've realized that too many people are getting lures stuck all over their body - in their hand, their face, everywhere. This is probably the worst part about fishing. How can this be prevented if it can be?

Piercings! Sounds like a cool new look (for someone else) to have lures dangling all over you! Plus if you ever forget your tackle box...

[Jaderose]

Do it once (I have) and all of a sudden you become an expert at how to take a fish off a treble hook.  Been about 5 years and I still get just the slightest bit of anxiety when throwing cranks.  Past the barb lengthwise into my thumb.  ER trip for that one

[Bluebasser86]

Use barbless hooks so when it happens, it comes right back out.

[Hammer 4]

In about 50 yrs of fishing, I've been stuck once, by a 7 lb rainbow trout of all fish..Had him on a livetarget lipless crank, did not have a net, went to grab him after a fairly long fight..I thought he was pretty much done...Nope tossed a hook right in the side of my middle finger. I nor anyone around had any spare braid to pull it out, so to the ER I went, and then they took forever, they didn't have any cutters, lucky one of the house plumbers has some, 2 hrs later, I left. Dang trout..haha.

[TnRiver46]

Wear sunglasses 100% of the time. It comes out of skin a lot easier than an eyeball 

[Hook2Jaw]

Had a striper come unglued once and sink the rear treble of my spook into my pointer finger.  There was little pain at first, but that quickly got worse as I tried to move my hand in tandem as I unhooked the fish with pliers in a pretty much useless left hand.  I then realized how badly my BPS Split Ring Pliers worked, because they didn't get the hook off the bait.  I decided to call it a day and began pedaling my Hobie PA14 back to the ramp with blood pumping from my pierced finger.  It's crazy how tiny holes can pour so much fluid, but it was definitely augmented by the workout.

 

As I pedaled, the anxiety of loading that 140 pound behemoth into the bed of my truck started to worry me and the pain had become a pretty dull throb.  On a whim, I pedaled to a boater and profusely apologized for having to bother him.  I asked if he had done the braid trick and he told me he had stepped on a crankbait the week before and pulled it from his heel.  With a rag, he wrapped up the front and middle trebles to prevent more hooks entering anyone and braid tricked it right out.  The blood flow and pain stopped.

 

That man has since become a good friend.  I'm sort of glad I got that hook stuck in my finger.  Now, I always net my fish into the kayak when using trebles and use a pair of pliers to get them out and FIRMLY lip the fish away from the hooked side.

[scaleface]

I went decades without being stuck , then did it in three succesive years . One was a snagged crankbait came flying back , one there was a treble hook sticking outside a tacklebox that I didnt see and one trying to get a fish unhooked from a crankbait . I bought a set of fish grips that get used on fish caught with treble hooks . Single hooks I still lip them .

[tcbass]

My friends young son was whipping lures around in the boat.....I put sunglasses on even though it was sunny out. lol