OUCH! (Reminder for Kayakers/Boaters 2024
Harold Scoggins reply :
Inspect often, replace any items you may have used.
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MN Fisher reply :
All these tips you're posting can apply to us canoeists as well.
Far as the first-aid kit? Even though I haven't had to use it this year, I check it before every trip.
Harold Scoggins reply :
On 6/25/2019 at 3:57 AM, MN Fisher said:All these tips you're posting can apply to us canoeists as well.
Canoe, kayak, same same, y'all just missing half your paddle. (Just kidding, I'll make sure to mention you guys too.)
schplurg reply :
On 6/25/2019 at 5:13 AM, Harold Scoggins said:Canoe, kayak, same same, y'all just missing half your paddle. (Just kidding, I'll make sure to mention you guys too.)
I think you covered all watercraft when you said "boaters" ;) Canoes, kayaks, the Titanic - boats.
Harold Scoggins reply :
Everyone has been going through their boats and tackle boxes getting ready for another great year of fishing. Don't forget to give that first aid kit a once over.
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MN Fisher reply :
On 1/30/2020 at 8:13 AM, Harold Scoggins said:Everyone has been going through their boats and tackle boxes getting ready for another great year of fishing. Don't forget to give that first aid kit a once over.
Part-and-parcel of the winter re-org. Despite not having needed it last season, it'll be unloaded, updated, and repacked.
I don't have a purchased kit...I have a custom-built.
Hook2Jaw reply :
If you don't carry it, add a length of heavy braid to your kit and learn how to unhook yourself.
It's not fun, but it can save a day.
SuperDuty reply :
I got a treble hooked stuck deep in my hand this summer when I was out in nowhere. No matter how hard I yanked, it wouldn't come out. Thankfully a kayaker came by and loaned me some pliers so was able to cut the hook and push it through. Wasn't any fun at all.
TnRiver46 reply :
^owww
SuperDuty reply :
On 1/30/2020 at 9:22 AM, TnRiver46 said:^owww
Yeah no doubt! It reminded me of the time I was fishing in the Florida gulf and got stabbed in the hand by a sail cat. Had to use fingernail clippers and gnaw at the barb for a while until it broke free. Then had to shove the barb through the other side of my hand and yank it out with my teeth. Ugh it made me sick to my stomach.
Harold Scoggins reply :
On 1/30/2020 at 9:20 AM, SuperDuty said:I got a treble hooked stuck deep in my hand this summer when I was out in nowhere. No matter how hard I yanked, it wouldn't come out. Thankfully a kayaker came by and loaned me some pliers so was able to cut the hook and push it through. Wasn't any fun at all.
SuperDuty reply :
Honestly I think pushing the tip through and cutting it off seems better than what this looks lol
I hope it never happens to me again but I'm sure it will.
txchaser reply :
I learned on here to carry pliers strong enough to cut a hook. I've gotten one out stuck past the barb before, but I can see getting hooked in places where that's not possible if you are alone.
HookInMouth reply :
On 1/30/2020 at 8:30 AM, Hook2Jaw said:If you don't carry it, add a length of heavy braid to your kit and learn how to unhook yourself.
It's not fun, but it can save a day.
Ugh. I've watched those videos. I'm a wus man. I don't think there's any way in hell I'd be able to do that. Right now my plan is to carefully paddle to the dock and then get to an ER to have a hook removed. Seriously. It's a bad plan. But it's all I got.
On 1/30/2020 at 9:20 AM, SuperDuty said:I got a treble hooked stuck deep in my hand this summer when I was out in nowhere. No matter how hard I yanked, it wouldn't come out. Thankfully a kayaker came by and loaned me some pliers so was able to cut the hook and push it through. Wasn't any fun at all.
This sounds awful.
Hook2Jaw reply :
Braid tricking isn't bad at all. It bled more before it was popped out.
BoatSquirrel reply :
My kit has the afore mentioned lenght of braid, also superglue, a razor knife, some type of soap or hand sanitizer, a lighter and bandages.
Be safe yall!
tander reply :
Keep this in my boat all the time. Never know when I might need it.
HookInMouth reply :
On 1/30/2020 at 9:09 PM, Hook2Jaw said:Braid tricking isn't bad at all. It bled more before it was popped out.
The problem is, I can't get through an entire video to learn it haha.
GreenPig reply :
Always carry my compound cutters. I've witnessed fishermen go through the pain of pushing the hook through only to have regular cutters fail.
Harold Scoggins reply :
Michigander reply :
Keep a little bottle of hand sanitizer within reach, I clip mine to my life jacket. If you break your skin out on the water, especially in a kayak or canoe, you can get all sorts of bacteria and microbes in the wound which goes straight to your bloodstream. It stings to slather a fresh cut in alcohol gel but it beats going to the ER for an IV full of antibiotics (speaking from experience). You can also use super glue to seal the wound until you get to dry land to help protect against further contamination.
SuperDuty reply :
On 2/4/2020 at 7:27 AM, Michigander said:Keep a little bottle of hand sanitizer within reach, I clip mine to my life jacket. If you break your skin out on the water, especially in a kayak or canoe, you can get all sorts of bacteria and microbes in the wound which goes straight to your bloodstream. It stings to slather a fresh cut in alcohol gel but it beats going to the ER for an IV full of antibiotics (speaking from experience). You can also use super glue to seal the wound until you get to dry land to help protect against further contamination.
I carry this stuff with me everywhere. gas pumps, creditcard pinpads, door handles etc - stuff we touch in public every day, are just infested with germs. I was never sicker in my life than when I use to service cc pinpads in retail stores. Anytime I touch things that the general public uses, I've got to get my hands clean immediately.
tander reply :
On 1/31/2020 at 12:18 AM, tander said:Keep this in my boat all the time. Never know when I might need it.
Well I finally had to use these 2 items. Really strange I just posted a pic a few days ago of these. On top of that, I was not fishing, I wasn't even messing with tackle. I open a cabinet and when I did I got hooked by a crankbait on my pegboard, hard to image I know. I finally cut the lure off and convinced by wife to pull the string to pop it out while I held down the shaft of the treble. Popped out just like it suppose to without any pain. I was really worried that my wife would pass out. Just to let everyone know that I tied some side cutters that I had but was unable to cut the treble off with them. It took the pliers that you see in the picture. If you keep some pliers for this purpose, make sure they will work. Sorry, forgot to take pictures but it really did happen.
Bluebasser86 reply :
The line trick works great for removing hooks, until it's an outbarb.
It took way more trying and way more force than I expected to push it the rest of the way through and pinch the barb down. My skin did more tearing than the barb did pushing through. Having the hook in my dominate hand and trying to push and twist with my offhand was not helping.
SuperDuty reply :
On 2/4/2020 at 11:09 AM, tander said:Well I finally had to use these 2 items. Really strange I just posted a pic a few days ago of these. On top of that, I was not fishing, I wasn't even messing with tackle. I open a cabinet and when I did I got hooked by a crankbait on my pegboard, hard to image I know. I finally cut the lure off and convinced by wife to pull the string to pop it out while I held down the shaft of the treble. Popped out just like it suppose to without any pain. I was really worried that my wife would pass out. Just to let everyone know that I tied some side cutters that I had but was unable to cut the treble off with them. It took the pliers that you see in the picture. If you keep some pliers for this purpose, make sure they will work. Sorry, forgot to take pictures but it really did happen.
Oh my wife would be more than happy to do that to me!
On 2/4/2020 at 4:08 PM, Bluebasser86 said:The line trick works great for removing hooks, until it's an outbarb.
It took way more trying and way more force than I expected to push it the rest of the way through and pinch the barb down. My skin did more tearing than the barb did pushing through. Having the hook in my dominate hand and trying to push and twist with my offhand was not helping.
Ouch! Yup that's exactly what happened to me last summer and also happened in my dominant hand. And with nothing to put pressure on the hook/skin, it made it very difficult to push the hook through the skin and past the barb.
Bluebasser86 reply :
On 2/4/2020 at 6:44 PM, SuperDuty said:Ouch! Yup that's exactly what happened to me last summer and also happened in my dominant hand. And with nothing to put pressure on the hook/skin, it made it very difficult to push the hook through the skin and past the barb.
Stupid part is I wasn't even fishing. I was rigging up tackle to go fishing the next day and had taken this 110 off my rod and put a different one on, but when I put it in my jerkbait box I managed to close the lid over the split ring with the treble hanging out the back of the tackle tray. So when I dropped the tray back in my boats storage, BAM! Thankfully the weight of the tray pulled/pushed the hook through as far as it did. I'd been working on it for a minute when I stopped to take the picture. I was sweating quite a bit despite it being in the 30's, needed a little "don't pass out" break.
SuperDuty reply :
On 2/4/2020 at 7:06 PM, Bluebasser86 said:Stupid part is I wasn't even fishing. I was rigging up tackle to go fishing the next day and had taken this 110 off my rod and put a different one on, but when I put it in my jerkbait box I managed to close the lid over the split ring with the treble hanging out the back of the tackle tray. So when I dropped the tray back in my boats storage, BAM! Thankfully the weight of the tray pulled/pushed the hook through as far as it did. I'd been working on it for a minute when I stopped to take the picture. I was sweating quite a bit despite it being in the 30's, needed a little "don't pass out" break.
Kinda the same way for me. I was pulling a lure out of my tackle box and somehow another lure caught my hand and then the other hook caught the tackle box and as I pulled my hand out of the box, it pulled the hook deep into my hand.
It didn't really effect me much other than knowing I didn't have any cutters with me which is why I grabbed the lure and gave it a few very hard yanks and realized it wasn't budging at all. I probably coulda yanked it out but it would have taken a huge chunk of my hand with it and I wasn't up for that. I was just getting ready to use my knife to cut it out when my wife seen the kayakers coming down the creek. We happened to know one of them so it worked out alright.
NittyGrittyBoy reply :
https://www.foxnews.com/us/florida-evergades-missing-kayaker-rescued-video
Another Yakker
Hook2Jaw reply :
@NittyGrittyBoy, I'm glad they found dude.
@Bluebasser86, note to self, no Katsuage Outbarbs.
SuperDuty reply :
He's very lucky he wasn't food for something. I'm anxious to hear more about the details. Just seems odd he wasn't still with the kayak unless he just got so weak that he was unable to hang on to it any longer.
NittyGrittyBoy reply :
Everglades is the worst place to be floating. Colder water was actually an advantage to him, even though I doubt he was thinking that
Hook2Jaw reply :
On 2/5/2020 at 2:04 AM, NittyGrittyBoy said:Everglades is the worst place to be floating. Colder water was actually an advantage to him, even though I doubt he was thinking that
For sure. I spend so much time in the water at work that it's either I like the cold or the reptiles.
SuperDuty reply :
I've spent quite a bit of time in the Everglades and that's definitely a water I wouldn't want to spend a couple of days floating in.
Ratherbefishing75 reply :
Man I never carried a kit On my canoe but I’m thinking it’s going to happen this year especially now that my sun wants to go out more with me
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