Pulling on hung jigs! Public Safety reminder

We have all done it. Pulling on a hung-up jig hoping it will come loose or just to break it off. Dang it, they come back fast. I took off Tuesday afternoon and hit the river. Found a tree loaded with fish. They were eating minnows as fast as we could get them in the water. My buddy kept fishing minnows and I started tossing a jig. First a hair jig and then a 2" plastic grub. The fish were snatching in on the fall!!!

Unfortunately, they were all 1-2 pound catfish. They were smashing that hair jig! We had a blast, but only managed 2 crappie.

Casting to the bank some, I hung up my 1/16oz jig/grub. Like always I pull on it to free it or break it. I tighten up the line, point the rod at the jig, and hold the spool/bail so it can't slip and pull back. So the stress it on the bail roller, not the rod. Will I was expecting the 4 pound line to break, but WHIZZ-POP! Here it comes. I always turn my head away to protect my eyes. That little joker came back and hit me sqaurely on the index finger. Right above the finger nail, but below the first joint. No meat there. Brought back memories of fingers in car doors when I was young! Made my eyes water and I said some really awful things, right out loud, dancing, spinning, sweating, crying but mostly just good-ole-fashion searing pain and profanity.

Got me to thinking about my eyes. I don't wear glasses, and most of the time don't even where sun glasses. Jimminy Christmas that would put an eye out. I've got to be more careful. That Suffix yellow 4 pound line is some tough stuff!

Nice weather coming...............have fun............be safe!

Dayton

It happens all the time, be careful!

Nasty!
My experience was with 20lb mono and a 3/8 ounce bass jig. Wrap line around rod butt, turn around and pull. Jig pulls loose and connects directly on the ulnar nerve (funny bone).
Couldn’t feel my ring or pinkie finger the rest of the night


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I was 12 years old fly fishing, hung a limb on the back cast yanked hard and drove a Peck's popper with 1/0 hook through the top of my ear. My buddy snuck back to my house for a pair on needle nose pliers and we worked it thru and cut the barb off. That was still better than what my dad would have done! To this day I wear a bonnie hat or beanie and glasses all the time fishing.

Get you some polycarbonate lenses in your sunglasses.
Funny how some things, can hurt so much!


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Could a been worse. Buried hooks are no fun. I’ve sank three past the barb this year, one was a double on a jerkbait, that was a ton of fun.

had a guy walk up quiet behind me one morning early when I was whipping a big top water
i brought that bait back behind me to cast it a mile out there and let her rip
sunk all of the treble hooks right in the back of his head
boy howdy did he SCREAM :yikes

Be careful flipping fish into the boat also. Have two nice scars on forearm from a 4 oz flounder jig I buried. At least the fish stayed in the boat.

I pulled a crank bait out of a bush it came back to fast to get out the way. It hit me in the side and buried two hooks past the Barb's .I had a choice to go to the doctor or pull them out with pliers.I pulled the out with pliers .Talk about electricfied pain .got em out .