Hooking yourself !!!

[A Norfolk Boy]

3/0 varivas aberdeen in the pad of my finger way past the barb. Had to pack up and drive 25 miles to A&E to get the thing cut out. Tried myself but it was going nowhere. Did twinge a bit each time I knocked it changing gear......

[Guest PhilB]

my Dad took my nephew fishing to Alnmouth. He was walking along the opposite bank and found a 6 oz leadweight with a bit of nylon attached. he hurled it as hard as he could across the river for my nephew to pick up. Unfortunately, there was a 3/0 hook attached to the nylon....the lead got about 3 feet then the hook embedded itself in my Dad's thumb! (I'm sure I heard a loud wince from all you guys & gals out there!) An afternoon at the hospital followed and then he had to drive 30 miles home. Gawd, imagine the pain.

On a lighter note, that 10 year old nephew found a live mortar bomb in the sand dunes near there. The BD men arrived from Catterick , put some plastic on it and let the young lad push the plunger to blow it up! He was dead chuffed.

[John S]

Never actually hooked myself (sorry to disappoint you all ) but came very close to it once....

 

Some years ago I was doing some fluff-chuckin' at a local lake. I was facing the sun so decided to wear shades on this day. I had only been fishing for about 30 minutes when a breeze caught the line on the cast and whipped it around my head until I saw, briefly, the fly on my sunglasses until the weight of the line whipped if away. I took the glasses off and found a deep scratch from the hook on one lens! I daren't think what would have happened if I wasn't wearing them. Needless to say, I always wear a large pair of shades now when fly-fishing

 

Tight lines

 

[ 18. August 2005, 11:50 PM: Message edited by: John S ]

[SandTiger]

Very wise

 

Lucky escape!

[Barbelblanker]

Fly fishing where the line runs over your right shoulder, will it , won't it. Ouch!

Feeder or bomb drops through fingers followed by the long trace. Again, ouch. Been there so I debard trebles on plugs just in case.

[Snatcher]

We are only human!!! look at the thread turn/look/think/check/before you cast

[sam-cox]

When I was about 8 I was sorting my course fishing tackle box out & got a size 18 in my fingure. My Dad said he would pull it out, but I wouldnt let him. So off to the docters we went, he gave me an injection that hurt more than the ruddy hook.

A few years later while night fishing I got a carp hook in my ear, I went staight home and asked me Dad to get it out, he numbed my ear with lighter gas and pulled the hook out, I returned to the lake.

Many years later, I had a rod that I had built from a blank, the reel was held on by two jewbalee clips.After poaching a local skying complex for carp I hooked my hook through a hole in the jewbalee clip, then while jumping over a fence the hook when into my hand, so I was not only hooked but attatched to the rod to. A friend cut the hook at the eye and I whent to the quacks again. The DR said no worries I have a method to get hooks out, you take a bit of line loop it rond the hook, push the hook down and pull the line so the hook is being pulled the way it went in. This would of worked a dream but the hook was an offset so it took him three goes. ouch

[sam-cox]

Back in the 70s my Dad had a angler on his boat get two of the hook from a treble in his head. He was spinning for bass with a toby.

My Dad cut away the toby and the sarounding hair, leaving just two small bits of hook petrooding from his head, my Dad then said Im going to count to 3 then pull the first one out. On 2 he pulled the first hook out, the second hook took a bit more time as the other anglers on the boat joined in the count, the second hook was finaly pulled out as a count of 56.poor guy

[sam-cox]

Sorry sand Tiger I didnt see your post, the diagram that you have posted is the method my docter used, its a good method.

[Snatcher]

So what next then,a thread on gaff injuries