Worst time hooking yourself

[DWG1984]

I took a buddy of mine and his fiance fishing all was well, until I stood up to make a cast. Simultaniuosly with me his fiance was on her backswing a 4/0 lucky strike weighted hook ended up in my neck. We pulled the worm off, cut the line and proceeded to try to cut the hook, apparently my pliers were junk. We ended up at the local fire station, the emt guys there had no idea what to do they tried to take a scalple to it and finally I told them to push it through and cut the barb off. The funny thing is I was fine except for a little squirming, my buddy on the other hand ( who happens to be a Mohawk having Harley riding kind of bad *** guy) is white as a bed sheet sweating and hiding his eyes. I love giving him a hard time about that. I still have two little scars on my neck it looks like I got bit by a vampire.

[WVBassHunter]

Mine happened about 8 years ago...not fishing....but actually running from a WV Black Bear.

We went on a family trip with my parents to a state park when walking to meet my dad in the parking lot about 10:30pm my brother yelled there was a bear behind me and literally it was 2ft behind me!  So i took off and dove in the bed of his Silverado landing my my pole with Rapala minnow running right into my left wrist!!!  Well I got it out...after an hour of fun!  LOL

Good times though!!!!

[jettech]

I didn't do it but I saw my best friend hook another guy in his ear. with a treble hook from a crank bait.  d**n near pulled it through......  Thank god drinking kills the pain.   

[Northern Strain]

First time it happened it was over the summer. I was throwing a x-calibur, silver lipless crank bait. catching a bunch of short fish, hadn't been out long and was sure I was going to just slam them. I hook a short smallmouth, and when i say short I mean short. I couldn't get my thumb in it's mouth cuz it was full of trebbles. so i grab onto the line just above the lure. The fish decides to shake and the next thing i know it feels like i just got a shot from a doctor. I closed my eyes, hadn't evern seen the damage, but knew what had happened. I look down to see a bass on the back hooks and my thumb on the front set. I guess the bass caught me. any way, I cut the line get the little bass off, give him a kiss, and I was pretty mad, however this bass would be memorable, so I let him go hoping to get a rematch if he got to 5 #'s. I tried to get the hook out but it hurt so bad. I ended up going to imediate care and got some novicane, and a doctor to remove it.

[RobbyZ5001]

I just hooked myself in the face today... two hooks IN THE FACE. My buddy tore them both out... the line trick is for women.

[fishinfewl]

I have holes in a lot of my jeans because of treble hooks.

[owl]

I have neglected to read  this thread several times cause I couldn't remember ,It had been many years.

  Karma  gave me a refresher . I caught a nice sow and got fired up about it. I hung the chatter bait on a limb . I jerked the fool out of to free it. It flew back and  stabbed me in the arm. Took me an hour after I sheared the hook to push it through 

[Carrington]

just yesterday i went to set the hook on a fish when my line was very close to the shore and the fish hadnt swallowed the hook yet, the hook came flying out and hit about 1 cm below my sunglasses directly below my right eye.  i wasnt sure how to pull it out since ive never hooked myself so i ripped and then it hurt horrible bad.  still hurts now.

[BrianSnat]

I was doing some evening bassing and was supposed to meet  a friend.  He said he'd call me when he arrived and I'd go to shore to pick him up.  I had just tied a popper on and was holding the lure in my hand with with the rod bowed when my cell phone rang. The sound startled me a bit and the lure slipped from my hand flinging it into the forefinger of my other hand.

One look at it and I knew it wasn't good. It was buried deep.  I went to the dock and picked up my buddy and he gets into the boat and says "How ya doing?"  "Well I was doing good until a few minutes ago" I replied and showed him my predicament.

He took one look at it and said "You should go to the ER"   "Nah, let's fish" I said, so we did. The lure was buried in my left hand so casting wasn't an issue, but retrieving was a bit of a pain.

I got home and my wife was just going to bed and said hello and I kind of hid my hand behind my back so she wouldn't see it and panic. 

I went into the bathroom with a pair of pliers to see if I could push the hook all the way through and cut the barb so I could pull it out. No deal. The angle of the hook wouldn't let me do that.

By this time it was 1 am and no way was I going to wake the wife up to go to the ER, but the question was how was I going to sleep with a popper with 2 treble hooks hanging out of my finger.

I grabbed some duct tape and taped the lure to my finger so it didn't flop around while I was sleeping.

First thing next morning I went to the ER and had it removed. Doctor said he got  a hook in the hand nearly every week during fishing season.

[carrothead]

I've never hooked myself...but it gets pretty crowded in a 14 foot jon boat with 4 people.  I, of course, had to sit on the middle seat with my little cousin.  I rared back with my baitcaster to throw my fluke... and hooked my uncle right in the ear.  I thought it was funny, and it wasn't bad at all.  My uncle seemed to think differently.  I am now limited to spinning tackle in these situations.  ;D

[Dave P]

When I was a teenager, I was bank fishing a pond with a hula popper. I was trying to keep it from getting hung in the moss so I gave it a nice jerk. It sailed right over the moss and right into the underside of my right wrist...Grandpa pushed it on through and cut the barb off. I've been hooked without getting barbed more times than I can count by friggin' trebles...

[culprit71]

;D ;D ;D

Quite a story!

Been there, with too close calls with flying rattl-traps....can't be too careful!!!

[fishfordollars]

Not sure if it's the worst, but i tail hooked a catfish  last Saturday morning. No one around. Riped it out of my index finger with a pair of needle nose pliers. Rammed my hand down in the cooler to numb it before I did it though.

Worst part was trying to push the meat back in the finger. It ain't no fun.

[Senkoman12]

Honestly I have yet to do it, I probably have cut my hand more on line or with my knife then anything else.

same here but god i get them line cuts all the time and they suck to me about 10 times worse than a paper cut

[CJ]

I had a treble hook on a 200 series Bandit go through my thumb and come out under my thumbnail while trying to unhook a small bass. I had to push the hook on through the nail to be able to cut off the barb so I could back it out. It hurt.

My buddy had the worst one though during a big tournament. He got hooked in the hand while try to unhook a 3 lber on a big crankbait. Then when he reached down with the other hand to try and get the bass off, the fish jumped again and hooked the other hand. He was handcuffed with the fish still on there too. They had to kill the fish and cut it off. Then his co-angler had to drive them back in so he could go to the E.R.

[NateFollmer]

I never hooked myself but I always cut my fingers when I'm pulling knots tight (stupid line is like a knife and I always think "I won't pull as hard next time..." but I do anyway).

I have been hooked by other people though. Just last month I was on the river and I bent down to move a wire coming off the trolling motor. As soon as I stood up I felt a hard smack and then my head get jerked to the side. My buddy was casting an old school metal rapala plug (about 5 inches long) and it hit me right in the back of the head and the hooks went right into the top of my head. The actual smack of that lure hurt worse than the hooks.

Heads tend to bleed a lot.... :D

[Nebraska Bassin]

So far, I haven't put a hook in myself past the barb, but I've watched my dad and brother do it.  I was fishing a farm pond with my brother about 15 years ago, and he snagged a Zara Spook in the reeds.  He got the lure unsnagged from the reeds, but snagged himself right below the eye doing it.  I doubt that he had much fun driving 40 miles to the nearest hospital with that Spook hanging from his face.

A few years later we were pike fishing at a local lake, and I caught about a 10 pounder on a Rat-L-Trap. Since I wasn't experienced with catching and unhooking pike yet, I gave the fish to my dad to let him unhook the fish.  The pike was about as cooperative as the average pike is, and in the process of flopping around, stuck the front treble of the Rat-L-Trap in his thumb.  Luckily the fish freed itself at the same time, but it still put an end to dad's day of fishing.

[SirSnookalot]

I never hooked myself but I always cut my fingers when I'm pulling knots tight (stupid line is like a knife and I always think "I won't pull as hard next time..." but I do anyway).

I often wear a band aid on my finger, reduces cuts when tying braid

[NateFollmer]

I often wear a band aid on my finger, reduces cuts when tying braid

Yeah I mean to do that but I always forget to throw them in the tackle box I found using a small stick against your finger helps too haha

[zbigbadaaron]

Well I didn't get hooked past the barb but it was close but i had this hook in my finger while reaching over under a rail and somehow it jabbed me so i had a rod bent pretty good putting pressure on the hook and I had the hook in my finger for like 5 minutes before someone came too help me a few years ago. 

[urp]

After 60 fishing years I've had several unwanted hook contacts: I will related two.

While fishing a series of ponds in Ct. which were water supply ponds, fishing verboten and so fishing at night, I jerked a Jitterbug off a lilly pad and the hook went right thru my eyelid. Very close to being a very serious problem. An easy fix, however, by cutting the point and barb off the hook.

Trout fishing for Redbands(a sub-species of Rainbow) in desert Eastern Oregon, I buried the hook of a Mepps Spinner down to the shank square in the middle of my chin. I needed medical help and the closest was a clinic an hour and a half away. Keep in mind I had been camping for a week and was filthy and also had a beard. When I walked into the clinic they asked me what I wanted and I said, "well, I've got this lure in my chin". They said, "well, you never know these days. It might be a decoration."

To you trout fisherman, those Redband get up to 20" in a little stream you can step across.

[deaknh03]

I have been fishing for over 25 years and have been hooked one time. I was in the back of the canoe with my brother fishing in the front, and I landed a 2lb largemouth. I went to lip him and he flipped and somehow the heddon torpedo became hooked in the back of my right hand, trebles under the tendons,other trebles still in his mouth. After a quick yel, my brother made his way to the back of the canoe and helped me unhook the fish, then proceeded to try and cut the hooks out, and when that didnt work he tried to slice my skin open to free the hooks.needless to say we ended up at the hospital where it took the doctor 20 minutes to dig them out.

[tysondawglee]

My Dad hooked me real good with a rattle trap in the back of the neck..och!!

[jwluresme]

Mine happended recently over the Memorial Day holiday. Went to our vacation place near Hot Springs. We went over to Lake Hamilton to shore fish near the hatchery there. Walked around the cove there fishing for about an hour and didn't catch anything. I had a lipless crankbait tied on. I went back to the spot I started at near our car, and made a few more casts. Finally, something hit the lure. I reeled in what I believe was a yellow bass (it had teeth, so not sure of that). Since lipping it wasn't good due to the teeth, I grabbed it by the body and began to get the hook out. The fish was thrashing about a bit making the hook removal difficult. In fact in one of it's moves, the rear treble got stuck into the fish's side. Great! My wife ran to the car to get the camera to take a pic of the fish I caught. ;D

While she was getting that, the fish jerked again and freed itself of the lure, but unfortunately buried one of the barbs on the treble into the pad of my left thumb. It was in a good bit past the barb. I asked my wife to get my needle nose pliers so I could attempt to extract the hook from my thumb. This was my first time doing this, and after pulling on it realized it was not going to come back out the way it went in very easily. My wife is a neo-natal nurse, but I don't think she was too excited about trying to help me get the hook out of my thumb!

I was sweating, both from the heat of the day, as well as the pain and tension in the situation. After 5 minutes or so of debating what to do, a man and his wife that had been there by the lake asked if he could help. He informed us that he was an x-ray tech at the hospital, and knew that what they would do at the emergency room would be to push the hook the rest of the way through, then cut the barb off. He also said he had fished his whole life, and had to do that to himself once before. My wife gave him permission to take care of the situation!!

He got hold of my pliers, asked if I was ready (heck no!), and then bore down and pushed the hook back through the pad of my thumb. It did hurt a good bit, albeit briefly. He cut the barb and slipped the hook back the other way and out of my thumb. I went to the restroom in the building there near the boat launch ramp and washed it very well with soap and water. We left and went back to our place and put peroxide and antibiotic ointment on it. By the next day, it really didn't even hurt very much.

God puts people in the right place at the right time. I was blessed and grateful to the man (David I think his name was) for being there and knowing what needed to be done. I hope this is my first and only experience with having a hook in any part of my body!

Jim