Setting The Hook And It Rockets Back At You....?

[Crow Horse]

Ever have the experience of setting the hook while the lure was near the surface and it rockets back at you? I've had it happen several times and it's a little disconcerting. The last time it happened I actually had to duck which isn't very easy while in a kayak. I try to be very aware of my rod position but sometimes it can't be helped.....

Maybe I shouldn't use the "turn them inside out" method of hook setting........

[scaleface]

Oh yeah . Have had a bullet weight smack my rod many times .Had a rod snap in half last year and I speculate its because of a weight hitting it and weakening it .

[GaryH]

More than I care to remember. I also did a gorilla hook set and had a dink fly pass me and hit my partner in his head. I have admit I laughed my butt off. 

[QED]

I always wear polarized sunglasses both for better visibility through the water and for eye protection.  Problem solved.

[dodgeguy]

Set a jig one time and it came back and stuck on my leg. Had to slice it out.

[Yakalong]

It happens, it will wake me up 

[gim]

I use my hand to block it from hitting me. The result is worse when using a lure with treble hooks than using a lure with a single hook, but I’d rather take one in the hand than the face.

 

It’s yet another reason to never have 2 people standing next to each other on the front deck casting. Spread out and use the back deck.

[Bankbeater]

It seems like it happens most when the bass are short striking the bait.  Keeps me on my toes.

[Bluebasser86]

I've had baits and fish both sent screaming back at me by hooksets. Sometimes by me, sometimes by the other people in the boat.

 

[TnRiver46]

Always set the hook away from your face……

[schplurg]

Had a frog fly past me at about Mach 80 (someone here uses that term ) a few weeks ago. I have it on video. I chuckled and said, "Hmmm that was close"

 

It'll happen.

 

Oh a few weeks ago I caught a dink right after reeling in a 5 pounder and it rocketed into the side of my yak. Poor little guy. That's what happens when you're next after a 5 pounder!

[throttleplate]

had a lure slam into my leg from a snag and stuck in my pants and a couple whistle past my cheeks again on snags, never on a hookset yet.

[K1500]

Yes. Had a hula popper hook bury itself up to the bend in a knuckle. I tried to push it through and it wouldn’t go so I yanked it out with pliers. Has a Kastmaster bury 2 of the trebles all the way in my lip. My daughter broke a rod in half with a flying Zara spook. Numerous other instances. Always wear eye protection. 

[islandbass]

8 hours ago, Crow Horse said:

Ever have the experience of setting the hook while the lure was near the surface and it rockets back at you? I've had it happen several times and it's a little disconcerting. The last time it happened I actually had to duck which isn't very easy while in a kayak. I try to be very aware of my rod position but sometimes it can't be helped.....

Maybe I shouldn't use the "turn them inside out" method of hook setting........

Indeed. I’m sure it’s happened to all of us at one time or another. 
 

Fortunately, I figured out out to avoid or at least minimize the possibility of it hitting you. 
 

However you set the hook, if you make the conscious effort to never set the hook directly in front of you, ie, set the hook to either side, then anything that flies out of the water cannot hit you because you are not in its path. The one case where this won’t work is this. Say you yank to your left and the lure comes flying back to your left side. No problem, as long as you don’t move or move in the path of the lure. Kind of like when you played dodge ball and instead on moving to avoid the ball, you unintentionally move toward the ball and get hit. 
 

This also works when attempting to free a snagged lure. Simply never yank with the line directly in front of you. Just yank to either side. 
 

One last thing. It behooves you to where shades or glasses. You ever see a treble in an eye? No thanks, ? lol !

 

 

[Catt]

I can tell right away y'all amateurs!

 

1/4 oz bullet weight to the back of the head will draw blood!

 

Buzzbait hook through-n-through the elbow!

 

Balsa B, 2 treble hook points in the palm of your hand after catching it in mid flight! 

 

1/2 oz jig to the chest!

 

11 hours ago, gimruis said:

Spread out and use the back deck

 

Some guys it's safer having em stand next to me!

 

Try all that at night ?

[GaryH]

2 minutes ago, Catt said:

I can tell right away y'all amateurs!

 

1/4 oz bullet weight to the back of the head will draw blood!

 

Buzzbait hook through-n-through the elbow!

 

Balsa B, 2 treble hook points in the palm of your hand after catching it in mid flight! 

 

1/2 oz jig to the chest!

 

 

Some guys it's safer having em stand next to me!

 

Try all that at night ?

The Evil Knievel of bass fishing… ???

[ThatFishingGuy]

I once set the hook and my jig flew back and nailed me right in the chest, it left a wet mark on my shirt in the perfect shape of my jig!

[Fishingmickey]

I was fishing riprap on Guntersville and got hung just below the surface. I was using 14lb mono (before fluorocarbon). I tried breaking it off and it came free. With the stretch of the mono is was like the weight was shot out of a gun. The 3/16 oz weight punched a hole in my tee shirt in the exact shape of the weight and I had a bruise the size of a half dollar and a mark in the shape of the weight,

FM

[Bankc]

14 hours ago, throttleplate said:

had a lure slam into my leg from a snag and stuck in my pants and a couple whistle past my cheeks again on snags, never on a hookset yet.

Me too.  I've had to remove several hooks from my body over the years.  But they were all caused by a snagged lure flying back at me or someone else casting near me who didn't know what they were doing.  I think there are a couple of times where the fish surfaced and threw the lure at me while I was trying to keep tension on the line as well.  But I can't ever recall it happening on a hookset.  I also don't think I've ever been hooked by a fish I was trying to lip, or had already lipped.  At least not the point of the hook getting stuck in my skin.  

[PressuredFishing]

20 hours ago, Crow Horse said:

Ever have the experience of setting the hook while the lure was near the surface and it rockets back at you? I've had it happen several times and it's a little disconcerting. The last time it happened I actually had to duck which isn't very easy while in a kayak. I try to be very aware of my rod position but sometimes it can't be helped.....

Maybe I shouldn't use the "turn them inside out" method of hook setting........

have had this happen a lot, im not sure if there is a way to prevent it. This is why I try to wear long sleeve and ALWAYS glasses, Sunglasses saved my vision when setting a zara spook hook right next to the boat, glasses where ruined, a shame too because they where prescription, but they saved my eye.

50 minutes ago, Bankc said:

Me too.  I've had to remove several hooks from my body over the years.  But they were all caused by a snagged lure flying back at me or someone else casting near me who didn't know what they were doing.  I think there are a couple of times where the fish surfaced and threw the lure at me while I was trying to keep tension on the line as well.  But I can't ever recall it happening on a hookset.  I also don't think I've ever been hooked by a fish I was trying to lip, or had already lipped.  At least not the point of the hook getting stuck in my skin.  

For me its when two trebles are in a small 12 inchers mouth and forget pliers, thats a terrorizing fear I have.

[HaydenS]

16 hours ago, Bluebasser86 said:

I've had baits and fish both sent screaming back at me by hooksets. Sometimes by me, sometimes by the other people in the boat.

 

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I'm sure kids were wondering why I was laughing while were watching a video on the London Plague

[Captain Phil]

I was taught to set the hook as hard as I could.  We used to call it "crossing their eyes".  This was necessary because the hooks we had at the time were nothing like the laser sharpened hooks we have today.  When bass boats first came out, the manufacturers didn't know to thru bolt the bass seats.  They were held in with wood screws.  One day in Okeechobee, my wife and I were fishing a he and she tournament in Pelican Bay.  I felt a bass hit my worm, reeled down and set the hook with all my might.  The front bass seat pulled out of the floor and I fell in the water holding my rod and reel.  My wife said all she saw was the bottom of my sneakers.  When I got back in the boat, I spent the next 30 minutes screwing the seat back down.   I finally settled back into fishing.  About ten minutes later I felt another bite.  I set the hook again and fell in the water a second time.   My wife laughed so hard, I thought she was going to split a lung.  I went back to Slim's Fish Camp bought some giant lag bolts and finished the day without a repeat.  My wife still laughs about that day.  ?

[WRB]

Can’t think of any reason to cross the eyes hard set a surface lure outside of a frog possibly. 

Before developing a reel set w/rod sweep launched several smaller bass over my head. Bullet weights can be a real bullet and do serious damage.

Tom

[ajschn06]

17 minutes ago, WRB said:

Can’t think of any reason to cross the eyes hard set a surface lure outside of a frog possibly. 

Before developing a reel set w/rod sweep launched several smaller bass over my head. Bullet weights can be a real bullet and do serious damage.

Tom

 

 

Set the hammer on everything....

21 minutes ago, Captain Phil said:

I was taught to set the hook as hard as I could.  We used to call it "crossing their eyes". 

Every time

[Koz]