Quitlimpin Posted July 20, 2011 Posted July 20, 2011 About ten years ago, fishing the back of the boat, buddy rears back with a bomber model-a and catches me solid in the side of the neck after the back swing. Only one treble caught but that sucker was BURIED. Did the line trick and the hook popped right out. I swear I can still feel it when I think about it. Quote
kms399 Posted July 20, 2011 Posted July 20, 2011 At boat shows, Bill Dance used to stick a hook into his finger so he could demostrate how to remove it using a piece of strong line. He made it look easy! Now he is selling a tool do do the same thing! The first thing you need to do is separate the hook from the lure or the bait... especially if you are hooked to one end of a lure and a 6 lb bass is on the other! Trust me on that! BTW I have also had the same situation as above. I took the grandkids catfishing. We were using chicken livers on treble hooks and one of the kids laid his rod down with the bait laying on the ground. Dogs like chicken livers too! It was a mell of a hess. Then take a stiff shot of VOL (very old loudmouth), close your eyes, and jerk the freaking hook out with a pair of vise grips. All humor aside, a hook in things like eyes, testicles, etc. is serious stuff and warrants a visit to the ER. if I EVER get a hook in the testicles I will give up fishing that is just scary right there! 1 Quote
CAdeltaLipRipper Posted July 20, 2011 Posted July 20, 2011 One of my dads friends was fishing the delta and he caught a little 12 inch striper on a spook and when he was trying to unhook it the fish slipped from his hands and the treble hooked into his thigh with the little striper still attached to it shaking everywhere Quote
Super User Alpster Posted July 21, 2011 Super User Posted July 21, 2011 At the last Roadtrip in KY I was retying an owner slider when my fishing buddy made a cast and his lure caught my line and drove the slider into my thumb. Went to a "walk in ER" and they couldn't remove it. Went to the local hospital and they finally got it out. Fished the next day with no problems, just needed a little help removing hooks from the bass I was catching. You don't realize how much you need those thumbs until you can't use one. An aside, I got a E.O.B. from my insurance co. The KY hospital charged almost $600 to remove that hook. LOL Ronnie Quote
oconn Posted July 21, 2011 Posted July 21, 2011 Only happend to me once, Luckily I was able to remove it my self. Quote
Super User SirSnookalot Posted July 21, 2011 Super User Posted July 21, 2011 I had a hook in almost the identical spot as Alpster, Delray Hospital charged me $1140 by the time all the charges were totaled up. I was in Bourbon County Hospital in Paris Ky for 4 or 5 days, 1964, my portion of the bill $0.25 (name tag on wrist, no tv's in that hospital) , my how things have changed. Quote
Packard Posted July 25, 2011 Posted July 25, 2011 I was holding an old lure kind of examining it while sitting on my couch and it slipped and the one hook on it went right into my thigh. Luckily I just pulled it out with zero pain. Quote
urp Posted August 3, 2011 Posted August 3, 2011 I've had a number of hooks in past the barb in various parts of the body. Will relate two. One was a Jitterbug ripped off a Lillypad that went thru my eyelid from the inside out. A simple fix. Because the the barb was thru it was just a matter of cutting off the end of the hook and backing it out. A close and scary situation. The other was a trout fishing excursion to the desert streams of eastern Oregon. A similar jerk on a Mepps spinner buried it to the shank in the middle of my chin. Fussed with it a while and decided I needed medical help. We had been camping for a week, were filthy dirty, I had a full beard and it was 70 miles to the closest clinic. I walked in and the receptionist asked if she could help. I said, "well, I've got this here fish lure stuck in my chin." She laughed and said, "I didn't know. I thought maybe it was supposed to be there". Quote
Super User ww2farmer Posted August 3, 2011 Super User Posted August 3, 2011 I used to brag to any one that ever told me about getting stuck past the barb that in 20+ years of fishng I have never been. Well thats all changed, I hav ehad it happen twice now in the last 2 years. Both time envolved pike though, a bass has still yet to get me. Last year I was reaching into the net to grab a small pike that got my crankbait, he flopped just so, and the next thing you know I have the one point of a #4 treble past the barb UNDER a my thumb nail. That stung.........yeah just a little. Bit down on my shirt collar and gave it a fast tug. That thing hurt for a month. Then this year another pike got me, same thumb, this time in the meat, with a #2 treble past the barb, same deal, bite down and pull hard and fast. Bled for a bit, but wasn't as painfull as the other time. Quote
Abu4life Posted August 3, 2011 Posted August 3, 2011 Never had one in the hand until I was 18... Same deal for me, Throwing a tiny bomber Fat A crankbait and caught a 7 inch bass, the fish flopped perfectly driving the treble into my thumb... After a long boat ride home and a trip to the E.R. and almost watching my friend pass out from a little blood, they got it out and we went back out fishing. I went 6 years without getting another hook in the hand until last year... Crankbait, flop, wham.... I just used a little alcohol to deaden the pain and yanked it out... And to the pictures that were posted on here, Im ordering sunglasses as we speak.... Yikes... Quote
beerpressure Posted August 3, 2011 Posted August 3, 2011 Happened to my buddy. Trolling for walleye, had one in the net trying to unhook, it flopped around and the treble got stuck in his thumb. He cut it off and went to the ER to have them remove the barb. Quote
Diggy Posted August 4, 2011 Posted August 4, 2011 Happened today, I yelled m@!!#!!@!@!R, when it happened Quote
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