[lyle]

The treble hook post got me thinking.

A few years ago we had a charter and when it was set up everyone wanted to just cast plugs and jigs. The question was asked " does everyone have an idea how to cast?"

And of course the answer was yes !

As it turns out, only two of the 6 had ever even held a fishing rod.
Two of the husbands had fished prior and none of the wives and one gent had never fished before.
So Capt Lee gives all some lessons on casting and such and we start the day.

So anyway, its a very slow day to start with, and we search and search and cant find one stinking fish ! Then, finally, around 2 or 2:30 we find them hugging the rocks on the second island. And they are snapping.
Everyone gets ready to cast and the lady in the back corner casts and just follows the rod and reel right over the side of the boat!!!!!!!!!!!! ( Splash) It looked like it was planned, a perfect dive! ( well not prefect as there was some splashing) But maybe an 8.7 out of a possible ten. LOL

Lee jumps down off the ladder and heads to the back of the boat and all of a sudden, this lady just pops up like a bobber, rod in hand! So they pull her back into the boat and she says " Man, I dont know what happened, I just casted and kept going" Hahaha

So they start catching some more fish, and she gets dried off and is standing near the ladder & rod holders and low and behold, she catches a trebel hook in her french braid.

A few minutes later and she is back and ready to fish again, she gets ready to cast, ( Lee is helping the other lady try and figure it out) and I look down and she has about 6 feet of line out between the end of the rod and the windcheater, I start to say something and she quickly trys to mkae a cast.
The lure hits the rod holders, then the rod holders on top near me and bounces back down, I think I see it hit her hand and fall off the boat.
She turns around and holds up her hand with the trebel all the way through her thumb!! (OUCH)

Well thank god for the doctor that owned the boat being aboard and his medical kit, he shoots her thumb up to knumb it and cuts the hook and pulls it through...Puts on some magic medicine and thats that.

After the tears and sobbing is through, and she regains her compuosure ( by now she is really embarassed) she spends the rest of the day just watching everyone catch fish.

So, lets hear everyones ( when good fishing goes bad stories)

 

[PlaynHooky]

A friend, his wife, my wife and myself were enjoying a day of fishing Back River from his small center console. We had put a few fish in the cooler for dinner and decided to move and see if we could throw a few more in for good measure...........well earlier in the day I had been casting a Mirro-lure and had put that rod in the center console rod holder for ease of access later on. We arrived at our new location, my wife stood up and then it happened.......we got waked by a boat and my wife went to grab the handle on the center console and accidentally grabbed the MIRRO-LURE!!!! Treble hook through index finger is not a good thing.....well almost all the way through.......the point was just about to break through the skin on its way out.......She was a trooper about it but wanted NO PART of me pushing it the millimeter more it need to go and cutting off the barb...I snipped the split ring off the lure .....and so to Patient First we go! They broke out the " Fish Hook Removal Kit" which consisted of a pair of needle nose, a pair of diagonal cutters, and a small pair or needle nose vise grips....all MADE IN CHINA and in a ZIP LOCK BAG marked "Fish Hook Removal Kit" marked in sharpie!!!!! They decided NOT to numb her up and put her through more pain, so they just pushed the hook through the rest of the way ( as I was going to do an hour before) and attempted to cut the nice strong treble hook with the MADE IN CHINA cutters........the hook dented the cutters!!! After several attempts and two Doctors I got MY Gerber Multi-tool out and SNIP.....like BUTTER!!! They gave her a Tetanus shot and some anti biotics and sent us on our way...........I dare not say a word about being the one to actually get the hook out!

 

[Mike Avery]

How about getting towed by SeaTow and because I wasn't a member paid $450 dollars later to find out the only thing wrong with my boat was the kill switch was pulled.

Ouch....I'm such an idiot some days.

 

[Al B]

The first "Grand Slam" tournament we held at Kiptopeake, I fished alone. After getting set up, three rods go down... clickers screaming. I grab the closest one, put in in gear, let it come tight... and then tried to cross his eyes. Only problem was it was a shark... who's teeth parted the leader quickly. On MY end of the rod, the parted leader caused me to follow through a LOT more with the hookset.... smacking myself in the face with the reel. My lip was split, blood rushing down my chin/neck.

Got off lucky that night... would have sucked to knock myself out while fishing alone!

 

[PlaynHooky]

Mike gets the "de de dee" award so far.................Heres your sign.....

Al, I bet you had some laughs that night!!!

 

[ko]

Unless you are fishing with bait, pinch down the barbs. You will not loose any more fish, and the hook comes out of flesh (fish and human) much easier. I've been to the ER for a treble hook, too, but not any more.

 

[barnold]

Hook Removal

About 5 year or so, my buddy and I were ready to head out from my house. Boat hooked, gear loaded. I head back into the garage to turn out the light when I noticed a lure I wanted to take along. As I reached up to get it, I somehow tripped and lost my footing. I came away with the lure, only problem was, it was now attached to my hand. One of the barbs ended up buried in the palm of my hand.

I casually walked out to my buddy and said, "I seem to have a slight problem here." Well, he was quite interested in trying out the Ole loop of mono-press down on the hook shank-pull out the hook procedure. Only problem is, after several attempts, it wouldn't come out. (Not sure he was doing it right) Either way, it hurt like hell every time he yanked on it.

Since he couldn't get the hook out of my hand, he assumed our day to be over before it started and said "guess we'll be on our way to the emergency room for a hook removal". Well, it had been one of those long spells of unfishable days that turned into weeks. I'm hard to live with when I haven't fished in more than two weeks so I said "wait just a minute their buck'0" - grabbed the hook and, well, basically yanked, no, ripped the hook out of my hand. Looking over at my buddy I thought he was going to toss up his breakfast. He looked a strange shade green.

I don't recommend that method, however it was quicker than going to the emergency room and if I recall, we had a pretty good day on the water.

 

[racn35]

RORY GOGGIN- RUDEE INLET- BLUEFISH FISHING- GOTCHA PLUG- 24 APRIL

 

[Too Bubbas]

Tuna Hooked

About 5 yrs ago, off the Fingers, mostly a slow day trolling until about 1pm. Then we hit the jackpot, had 5 lines hit, 4 guys in the boat. Got 4 40# class YFT on the deck, then it got real interesting. One YF had the pointy end of the hook coming out the top of its month. My buddy Rando (Dr. Blanchard) walked by at the wrong time, the YF thrashed and the hook went right in Rando's ankle, behind the big tendon in the front. The YF is still thrashing with the hook in his mouth and in Rando's ankle. Yikes! Jumped on the fish to get it still and then cut the hook shank between ankle and fish. Half of problem solved, but still got a 8/0 tuna hook buried deep in the captain's leg. He drank some pain killers, grabbed the least rusty knife on board and cut his leg open to get the hook point to come out. It wouldn't push thru until he made a slit where it needed to come out (skin is tougher than you'd think). Some more cans of pain killer and hauled butt 50+ miles for home. Needless to say its always good to fish with a doc, and we carry more first aid stuff these days.

Fish

 

[Fastfisher]

Fishing our second day out of Venice Marina (La) with Capt Ernie (a 78 year old guide who still guided just so he could fish), we were sight casting to redfish back in the boonies of a spillway. My nephew reared back for a mighty cast to the fish moving slowly about ten feet away and with awesome precision drove the hook of a DOA lure tipped with shrimp and and through my cousin's chin. My nephew was petrified of the a..whipping he was sure was coming, my cousin was in shock, Capt. Ernie was fishing and my son and I were on the deck of the boat adding water to the pass with the tears running down our faces when I realized someone should probably do something. I recovered and asked Capt Ernie if he had any pliers and he told me to look under the seat and there "may be some there somewhere-thats a big one over there watch me get him". Lifting up the seat I found our surgical instrument and began trying to open and close it and after ten or fifteen times got them moving enough for the job. I figured it was a waste of time to ask if Capt. Ernie had antiseptic on board so we used the next best thing, Bud Light. I poured some on the pliers and my cousin's chin (he had to have three more during the operation) and went to work (after taking the appropiate amount of pictures). Plenty of blood and plenty of screaming which served to torture my nephew who was clearly afraid he would be thrown in the very water where we had tried to catch the gator that had swam by 30 minutes before. After I cut the tip and barb and got the lure out there was a collective sigh of relief on the boat and the our Capt. (who had caught several nice reds from his seat up front) said "I sure am glad you boys from Virginia know first aid cause I sure would hate to leave these fish just to go to the hospital" and then added "can I trade you a hot bud for one of them cold bud lights?"

 

[gotboost]

I fished all day out on the Susky Flats with a Bomber Long A hanging off my shoulder.my buddy caught me like on the thrid cast,didn't hurt a bit but wouldn't come out,cut off the rest of the hooks and finished the day,on the way to the Hospital knowing it would be a long wait we stopped at the McDonalds in North East and ate inside,this lady behind me in line asked if it hurt,I turned around and told no not at all,nothing like that tattoo I thinking about getting of a Rockfish,then I told her instead I just stuck this lure in my shoulder,and if like a couple years from now if I didn't still like fishing I would just take it out,couldn't do that with a tattoo...Took the doctor about 2 min's start to finish to remove it after waiting 2 hrs..took the doctor fishing 3 days later and we have been friends ever since..

 

[AMiller456]

Last fall, a surf fisherman nailed my brother in the chest with a 3oz leadhead while we were passing through the lenser bridge. It dropped to the deck and when I picked it up he set it hard in my thumb. He thought that he had a fish and had the drag set all the way, so needless to say it got buried deep. I tried to free myself by breaking the line with my free hand but ended up cutting it on the braided line. After about 5 seconds of torture my brother found a knife and cut me free. I've still got the lure in a specimen cup at home that the ER gave me. I am almost at the point where I can laugh at it now...losing my cool in front of my son is what pisses me off the most looking back on it...

 

[jamisjockey]

My old job was an Air Traffic Controller.
A coworker and buddy of mine hooked himself in the cheek with a size 22 fly on the Provo river. I had no idea about it, nor the ER visit to remove it.
Kept it hush hush until we were working one day, he was on the scope and I was his assist, his other fishing partner, a Skywest pilot and witness to the hooking checked in. Bryant gave him a vector. Realizing who it was, he responded....."thanks, fishboy!" I didn't take long for everyone to hear the story.

 

[kimh1]

Great stories guys.
Please keep it coming!

Hary
:yes::fishing2:

 

[virginia boy 1]

I was working as a mate and it was a little bumpy off of rudee. We were running stretch 25s for rockfish. we got a 27incher, and as i was unhooking it, the boat rocked hard and I let go of him. I thought that the hook caught my sleeve as my arm jerked down. When I looked, i found that it wasn't my sleeve, but it was buried deep about 2in behind my thumb right where my hand and wrist meet. I had a 27in PISSED OFF rockfish on the rear hook, and a 69in PISSED OFF mate on the front hook. The rock was kicking and flipping around, and I was kicking and flipping pretty good, too.

We cut the hooks, and I had to go to the ER to have the hook taken out. At the VAB ER, they called the "hook expert" doctor, who had a nurse hold my arm while he tried 3X unsuccessfully to just YANK the hook out backwards. aFTER THAT, HE SAID IT WAS PROBABLY CAUGHT AROUND A TENDON. I got woozy. He ended up cutting it out, and said that it wasn't on a tendon, but that I had the thickest dermis he had ever seen in 21yrs in the ER. Somewhere, one of the customers has a picture of the hook in my hand....wish I could find it. I still have the hook in a specemin jar in my drawer.

 

[going2fast]

Back in the 80's i was fishing with my dad and his friend on the st johns in florida for bass. i was casting a mepps minnow. i reared back and let out a cast only to hear[DON'T JERK DON'T JERK] I turned around to see that i had just snagged my dad right above his only good eye[he lost the other in a fight when he was in high school] He was yelling, his buddy was laughing hysterically, and i was petrified for my life. his buddy ended up just yanking it out and after alot of bleeding, cussing,and laughing we went back to fishing. a while later i remember my dad asking me to feel the water to see if it felt warm. me being naive I leaned down to test the water and SPLASH. he kicked me in the butt and sent me swimming. well it was more of a shove but he got his revenge. to this day he still tests me to see if i'm dumb enough to do it again.

 

[happy hours]

I remember watching my dad get out of the boat from a day on striper fishing and noticing he had a "shorty Hopkins" dangling from his ear lobe.



later on in life I caught a "rebel" that my brother was trying to cast,stuck it right behind the ear in the tough spot. We fished the day out and I tried to get my brother to cut it with "Kliens" but he said he couldn't do it,went to the ER and they didn't have anything that would cut it so they numbed it.Back home for the "Kliens" and a nieghbor cut the hook.p

 

[kapoc]

So there i was on the littel island pier when the water erupted with falsies and we all bellyed up the the rail slinging steel as fas and as hard as we could to the water when it happened, for whatever reason in mid cast i paused and then re initated the cast with a 3 oz stingsilver giving it just enought drop to wack me dead in the center of the back of the head after that it bounced off my melon and 35 yds further into the drink. after feeloing the pounding i put my hand to the back of my head and came back with a red hand!!!. I steped off the rail and my boy came to me asking what was up till i showed him the nicw new white shirt that i had pressed on my head that was rapidly turning red. he asked if i needed to go to the ER i said i should ...but we weren't going we ended up with 6 spanish, releasing 4 blacktips, and busting off a drum !!!!!!

But now the scar lies right beside the beer bottle scar in the back of my head LOL