First Aid?

[N.Y. Yankee]

Do you keep hand sanitizer or any other first aid materials in with your tackle. I have a kit in the car all the time and a small bottle of high-percentage sanitizer in my boxes for the little cuts and pokes you might get spending time with sharp and pokey things.

[gim]

I keep a small first aid kit and hand sanitizer in both my vehicles and in the boat.  The only item I've ever had to use while fishing is a band-aid.  I use the hand sanitizer after I'm done.  A band aid has been very helpful at times when I get a cut in my finger that just won't stop bleeding.

 

If you ever have a serious trauma incident in the boat, a small first aid kit isn't going to do much good IMO.

[scaleface]

No but I should . I keep band aids in my wallet . A few packs of alcohol swabs in the tackle bag would be wise .

[ATA]

I believe hand sanitizers smell is not good when you fishing, But by all means I have everything in my car and small pack of basic first aid in my tackle bag.

[Sphynx]

I keep a booboo kit, a combat application tourniquet, sanitizer, and a chitosan bandage in my pack, I also consider my pliers/multi-tool to serve as a bit of a first aid item, it isn't as though I'm going to be performing field surgery, but if we have a critical or life threatening bleed I should be able to keep myself or another person from getting dead long enough for the professionals to arrive, assuming I stay conscious of course, most of the time rubbing alcohol and a bandaid takes care of it, occasionally a hook has to get pushed through, but I haven't had a day get completely ruined for medical reasons yet.

[KSanford33]

I keep a small first aid kit in my dry bag. I've only had to use the band-aids in it, but 99% of the stuff in there I hope I never have to use. I even have one of those mylar blankets in case I capsize in cold water and need to keep myself warm. Although god knows how I would start a fire if I capsized...

[volzfan59]

I have good first aid kit in my boat. I used it several times at various boat ramps to help others, thankfully not for me. I should put one in my truck too. Thanks to china, I do keep hand sanitizer in my truck, also in my wife's car and we use them every time we get in. 

[MN Fisher]

I had a small kit I kept in the pocket of one of my tackle bags in the canoe.

 

Got a bigger one that's going in the side-storage (with the spare oar, toss-cushion, etc) in the boat.

[Mike L]

I always carry in my bag…

Band Aid’s

Neosporin

Clippers

Lip Balm

Sanitizer

Gauze wrap

Alcohol swabs 

 

I’d say over the years I’ve used everything one time or another, except the gauze wrap, for either myself or boater

 

 

 

 

Mike

 

[Luke Barnes]

I always have a sharp knife, sanitizer in the car, and an emergency space blanket. I'm more worried about falling in and being cold and wet than getting a cut or catching a hook to the hand. Especially this time of year, hypothermia will kill you quickly, a cut isn't an immediate threat, so that's how I see it. 

[Bankc]

Nope.  The way I see it, if it's small enough for a first aid kit, it's small enough not to worry about.  If it needs more than a first aid kit, then I'm heading into shore immediately.  And if I'm in desperate need to stop the bleeding immediately, I can use what I'm wearing to make a bandage or tourniquet.  They're just not worth the space they take up.  However, I fish from a kayak.  On a large boat, I'd probably have one.

[GreenPig]

Advil & Super Glue.

[A-Jay]

4 hours ago, N.Y. Yankee said:

Do you keep hand sanitizer or any other first aid materials in with your tackle.

First aid kit is part of my rigs 'survival gear'.

Royal Medical Direct 180-Piece First Aid Kit.

I've got the space and some first aid training.

So that helps. 

A-Jay

 

 

 

[scaleface]

48 minutes ago, GreenPig said:

Advil & Super Glue.

I carry those too .

[J Francho]

2 hours ago, Bankc said:

Nope.  The way I see it, if it's small enough for a first aid kit, it's small enough not to worry about.

All it takes is a tiny, almost imperceptible poke from a fish or hook to lead to infection, or worse: blood poisoning.  Hand sanitizer in the boat or at least the truck seems like a no brainer.

[Luke Barnes]

I also get carrying more on a boat than on you walking the bank. If you get stranded in the middle of the lake you might want more than just going to a local pond. 

[Spankey]

I have a small legit first aid kit on the boat. Over all the years only used a few times. No major mishaps to deal with which is fine. Had all the cpr training at work for years added that stuff to the kit. Have grandsons. They been in there a few times. Come spring I’ll toss the aspirin and put new. Take a few min. in the spring and go over it. 

[TnRiver46]

I have kept several first aid kits on board and they all got soaked. I think there is another one in there now in a dry bag but it’s only a matter of time before it’s also ruined 

[GaryH]

One in the truck and one in the boat. Depending on training and skill level as to what you carry.

[MickD]

All this stuff is great, but if you don't know how to remove a hook using this method, you are missing the most important part of fishing first aid.  

 

1.  If part of a lure, cut the hook off the lure.  You want only the embedded hook to deal with.

2.  Have a foot or so of braid or other strong line available.

3.  Place a loop of the line over the hook so you can apply force to the hook.

4.  Put some force onto the hook shank to load the hook so that the barb will be least likely to dig into the flesh as the hook is moved.

5.  With the loop in your hand, and the body part with the hook stable, count one two three and quickly and forcibly jerk the hook out.

 

There will be no damage from the barb, it will be almost painless, no need to cut the hook apart and possibly embed a short piece into the flesh.  This works!  You can even do it yourself if fishing alone most of the time.  Lots of videos on line about it.

[WRB]

I kept a small 1st Aid kit with a EpiPen in the boat because I am allergic to bee, wasp, hornet stings. Have a smaller kit now, no boat, for my tackle bag.

Tom

 

[cyclops2]

I you use BIG BIG lures with 3 trebles. WITH HARDNED S S hooks ?  You are out of getting lucky with crushing the barbs down. Some unreal leverage pliers or a small grinder is needed.   cut each hook off above the skin. Push  /  pull the stubby hook out. 

 

If the barb is UNDER THE SKIN.  Risk of cutting a finger nerve is very high. Grind off the treble eye or what it attaches to on the lure. That willstop buried hook in your hand from moving around so much.  Emergency Room is first & only stop for buried hooks under the skin.  I had 5 of the 9 hooks buried in1 palm..........My luck was still good.  I backed those massive barbs out by tearing the hole larger with the barb point.  Pure luck I did not cut a nerve was the  E  R    statement. Alone & not on blood thinners then ...........Now ?  I would drive with a big lure hanging & bleeding on everything to the e R.

[Trox]

4 hours ago, A-Jay said:

First aid kit is part of my rigs 'survival gear'.

Royal Medical Direct 180-Piece First Aid Kit.

I carry something like this with me as well, may be from a different brand but they all have the same basic stuff in it... Definately one of those things that are better to have and not need than to need and not have. 

[Log Catcher]

I keep hand sanitizer in the car, truck, and boat. Always use hand sanitizer when stopping to eat lunch. Just got a small first aid kit for the boat for Christmas. The one I had in the boat had gone out of date a long time ago.

[J._Bricker]

I’ve got two different first aid kits in the boat, Krazy glue for those painful little cuts I get in the corners of my thumb/thumbnail area and for the past 2+ years a small spray bottle of hand sanitizer to be used after fueling the truck and boat….