Quote Originally Posted by hoosier78 View Post
When I was a young boy my older broinlaw thought he would be funny and at the end of a day fishing on an old river bed in our 12 boat decided to take the paddle with him when got out of the boat and push me back out with no paddle.
I had a catfish pole with me that was spooled with 25lb line and a good size hook and 3 oz sinker. I cast to the bank and snagged a root and started pulling myself to the bank and yes, you guessed it, the hook came loose and my hook and sinker came straight back at me! The sinker hit my cheek and hook caught me square in the lip. I tried to work it out gently and then finally panicked and ripped it out.
Let me tell you now that sucker bled and bled. Carry the scar of the hook to this day almost 20 years later.

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I'd have made good use of that pole when I hit land...
All up side his head!