Thread: Be Careful

Ashamed to admit it, I too got a #8 bream hook in my hand Friday. Lucky that I had a pair of needle nosed pliers in the boat . Pushed the point thru, cut the eye side and pulled it out. Found a paper towel to put on it and wrapped it with electrical tape and back to fishing! Be careful !!

Originally Posted by zslick99

Ashamed to admit it, I too got a #8 bream hook in my hand Friday. Lucky that I had a pair of needle nosed pliers in the boat . Pushed the point thru, cut the eye side and pulled it out. Found a paper towel to put on it and wrapped it with electrical tape and back to fishing! Be careful !!

oh, all you folks that have had a hook in your hand, just remember if you have not had a tetnus (sp) shot in the last ten years you need to go get one pronto..

Them thangs should be outlawed , to dangerous to fish with !!!!! Lol !!!!!!

Bill dance has a good story about a loudmouth that would let everyone know he had a striper on saying at high volumes things like "There he is" or There's another one " when he hooked up. One day he saw him set the hook and miss the strike. The zara spook came back and caught him in the side of his mouth with one set of hooks which caused him to jerk his head to the side where the other set got caught in the back of his shoulder. He was screwed up for sure. BD said the guy just started his outboard and left never saying anything to anyone.

Originally Posted by BigRiverMarine

Yanking them out with the string and jerk method looks like it really will hurt ya, but it's really almost painless. I've had two snatched out of my fingers and kept on trolling. I ain't tough either. When it comes to blood and stuff I'm as big a wuss as they come

This is true: my brother hooked himself in the lip trout fishing at Mountain Home....drove himself to the ER. Dr. says "I can either deaden it, which will hurt like hell, cut off the barb, then dig it out...or jerk it out with string". Brother's eyes almost fell out of their sockets, but the Dr. swore jerking would be faster & hurt less. He let him do the jerk method, was out in 5 minutes & back to fishing. Side note: Dr. asked him if he could have the lure, then took him back to his office. There he showed him his big cork board full of lures he's taken out of fishermen--they went from dry flies to 8" striper lures! My brother's is the small Rapla on the lower left.

Originally Posted by MaggiesMaster

This is true: my brother hooked himself in the lip trout fishing at Mountain Home....drove himself to the ER. Dr. says "I can either deaden it, which will hurt like hell, cut off the barb, then dig it out...or jerk it out with string". Brother's eyes almost fell out of their sockets, but the Dr. swore jerking would be faster & hurt less. He let him do the jerk method, was out in 5 minutes & back to fishing. Side note: Dr. asked him if he could have the lure, then took him back to his office. There he showed him his big cork board full of lures he's taken out of fishermen--they went from dry flies to 8" striper lures! My brother's is the small Rapla on the lower left.

That's a great story!

Would it have been rude? To ask him for a few post operation pictures... of proper (on The water) both hands hooked together hook removal, to show us...to better help us understand what a fellow might look like... in that condition? Before you operated on him? Just Wondering

Originally Posted by Mac Daddy

Be careful is right. I don't know how many times I've seen guys trying to get the treble hooks out of a fish while the pole is almost bent double with tension on the lure. One slip or flop of the fish and that sucker can come out with a vengeance and set the hook in your hand, fingers, face, or head. Or maybe both hands at the same time. Who knows.

Absolutely right. I still do it at times in the heat of the moment. Easy to do with those long rods. DP