Hooking Yourself 2024

OCdockskipper reply :

A couple of weeks ago, I hooked myself for only the second time ever (the first was over 35 years ago).

I typically am pretty cautious when handling fish caught with lures featuring multiple treble hooks, but I must have been a little sleepy when the 4th cast of the morning resulted in a bass inhaling my Pop-R. I brought him to the boat, I reached down & lipped him and started to lift him. As I did, he shook and drove one of the trebles into my left thumb. I pinned him down to stop him from moving, unbuttoned him & released him (I could swear I heard him giggling as he hit the water). I looked at my thumb expecting to see a bloody mess, but instead found the treble had slid between my thumbnail and the cuticle, past the barb of the hook. No blood and as I suddenly realized, no pain. I removed the treble hook from the lure and attempted to manipulate the hook back out. Unfortunately, the nail bed prohibited me from the "hook pop" trick for removing hooks embedded in more meaty parts. I could turn the hook 90 degrees in either direction, so that the point was either under the nail bed or pressed up against the outside of the thumb. I figured the best bet was to create an exit hole & pop it back through.

As I thought about it more, I guessed popping it back through would make it bleed and cause some pain where I thumb the spool on my baitcaster. It wasn't even 6 am yet and I didn't want to ruin a whole day of fishing, so I made an executive decision. I cut the treble so that about a 1/2" of the hook was exposed through the nail. With that done, I had complete mobility with my thumb, no pain and a way to still remove the hook later. I stayed out on the water until about 3 pm with no effect on my casting or reeling, although I did land the rest of my fish left handed.

When I got home, I started to manipulate what was left of the hook to poke it through, but chickened out. I drove over to an urgent care center, they numbed the thumb up and backed the hook out without damaging the nail bed. Once the hook was out, you couldn't tell one was ever in there. No blood, no entry mark, it was as if nothing had ever happened. There was a little swelling that evening from the trauma of backing the hook out, but by morning it was as good as new.

The positive was that it renewed my focus to pay attention when landing fish with multiple trebles hanging out of their mouth. I know some folks look at this as a reason to smash barbs or not use trebles, but once every 35 years is a pretty fair track record, especially considering it was completely avoidable and only happened due to a moment of carelessness.

Any one else have an interesting self hooking story?

Here is what it looked like after I cut it and continued to fish.

scaleface reply :

I only did it once. Crankbait came flying back after an attempt to unsnag it . I was able to push it through and clip it.

Bankbeater reply :

Ski reply :

On 6/3/2016 at 2:56 PM, OCdockskipper said:

Pop-R

Mine was a Pop-R also

frogflogger reply :

Part of the job - you fish with lures you're gonna get hooked

the reel ess reply :

Knock wood, I have never driven a hook all the way past the bard into my flesh. I'm 45 and have been fishing since I was maybe 8. I count my lucky stars and I'm sure it can still happen though.

WIGuide reply :

Not self hooking story, but I was fishing with a few friends when one of them landed a bass and when he lipped it to unhook it, he just picked it straight up without applying any pressure to the jaw basically inviting the bass to flop. Anyway within a few seconds he was attached to the bass. One of the treble hooks had 1 point embedded in his thumb, and another point of the same hook in his middle finger. Both were in way past the barb. With us all being in our teens and not knowing how to get both out, we brought the boat back to the cabin hoping my dad could get it out. He knew the hook trick, but didn't think he could make it work since the same hook had multiple points in, and we didn't have anything to cut it with.

My friend ended up taking a trip to urgent care. Remember he is only a teenager and already uncomfortable and freaking out because we didn't know how to get it out. When he gets to see the DR. he takes one look at it, looks my friend in the face and says "I can't get that out" and walks out of the room. Absolutely freaked my friend out. Apparently the DR was only joking, but it obviously didn't help the situation! haha They had to cut the hooks out of him and he ended up with stitches.

Ski reply :

Back in the day, I guess about 30 years ago, my wife was in the back of our Ranger and she hit me in the back of the head so hard with a 1/2 oz Rattle trap that it knocked me in the friggin lake and was attached to my scalp through my cap. Had to get that one surgically removed.

R/ Chris

Jtrout reply :

My brother hooked me twice once in the calf with a spinnerbait and another in the back of my arm with a 5 inch swimbait it was thru my shirt and stuck in my arm past the barb my dad was freaking out lol he put pressure on the lure and cut my skin with a knife and it popped out luckily

BassMaster17 reply :

Never a self hook, but when i was younger and first getting into fishing, i was on the shoreline and wasn't paying attention to my surrounding all too well, my friend passed behind me at the same time that i was casting and SNAP! i thought i had snapped my 20 lb test and crankbait on the picnic table behind me, but instead it was the head of my friend. he had to get rushed to the hospital and have it removed, three hooks all past the barb, they had to make exit holes to push them out. i gave him a bunch of my lures as a "im sorry i hooked you in the head" but i still feel like crap about it to this day.

OCdockskipper reply :

On 6/3/2016 at 6:13 PM, scaleface said:

I only did it once. Crankbait came flying back after an attempt to unsnag it . I was able to push it through and clip it.

That is what I did as a teenager, yanked a River Runt out of a tree into my upper arm.

awohlwend reply :

Attempting to tie on a squarebill in rough water last summer resulted in a treble hook in my shoulder. Worst part was it was through my shirt so I couldn't see what I was working with. Grabbed it with pliers and yanked. As you can see mine was a bit messy. Had to go home and get my tetanus shot updated since I hadn't had one since I was little.

fishwizzard reply :

About a month ago my little pair of cutting pliers went overboard and were lost. I guess this is a good reminder to replace them asap!

I have never hooked myself past the barb yet, but I know it is coming.

cpvenom reply :

I was tying a bucktail Jig last summer, and managed to bury a heavy wire jig hook DEEP (almost to the hook bend) in the base of my pinky, while it was still in the vice. I was pinned to the table for a good 15 seconds as i quickly weighed my options. Using my free hand, I smacked my hooked hand, popping it free. The wound healed quickly, however, I was left with some nerve damage for about 6 months.

S. Sass reply :

Not a hook story but I was cleaning fish with a nice razor sharp fillet knife about 7 or so years ago. Wife called me to come to the kitchen for something. So me covered in fish made a rash decision to stab the knife into the board I was cleaning the fish on.

Bad bad idea. My hand covered in fish slid down the handle and blade. Cut my pinky right at the last joint where it bends to the bone. Anyway it barely bled and when opening my hand you could see the bone so plain.

It apparently cut what ever pulls to make your finger bend because my pinky doesn't bend there anymore unless I grab it and bend it with my other hand. It has been this way now so long all the normal wrinkles in skin on my knuckles have disappeared. It's just smooth.

OCdockskipper reply :

On 6/4/2016 at 2:19 AM, S. Sass said:

...It has been this way now so long all the normal wrinkles in skin on my knuckles have disappeared. It's just smooth.

It looks like you have inadvertently discovered an alternate to Botox. If you can patent stabbing women in the forehead as a medical procedure, you will be rich!!

Raul reply :

On 6/3/2016 at 2:56 PM, OCdockskipper said:

A couple of weeks ago, I hooked myself for only the second time ever (the first was over 35 years ago).

I typically am pretty cautious when handling fish caught with lures featuring multiple treble hooks, but I must have been a little sleepy when the 4th cast of the morning resulted in a bass inhaling my Pop-R. I brought him to the boat, I reached down & lipped him and started to lift him. As I did, he shook and drove one of the trebles into my left thumb. I pinned him down to stop him from moving, unbuttoned him & released him (I could swear I heard him giggling as he hit the water). I looked at my thumb expecting to see a bloody mess, but instead found the treble had slid between my thumbnail and the cuticle, past the barb of the hook. No blood and as I suddenly realized, no pain. I removed the treble hook from the lure and attempted to manipulate the hook back out. Unfortunately, the nail bed prohibited me from the "hook pop" trick for removing hooks embedded in more meaty parts. I could turn the hook 90 degrees in either direction, so that the point was either under the nail bed or pressed up against the outside of the thumb. I figured the best bet was to create an exit hole & pop it back through.

As I thought about it more, I guessed popping it back through would make it bleed and cause some pain where I thumb the spool on my baitcaster. It wasn't even 6 am yet and I didn't want to ruin a whole day of fishing, so I made an executive decision. I cut the treble so that about a 1/2" of the hook was exposed through the nail. With that done, I had complete mobility with my thumb, no pain and a way to still remove the hook later. I stayed out on the water until about 3 pm with no effect on my casting or reeling, although I did land the rest of my fish left handed.

When I got home, I started to manipulate what was left of the hook to poke it through, but chickened out. I drove over to an urgent care center, they numbed the thumb up and backed the hook out without damaging the nail bed. Once the hook was out, you couldn't tell one was ever in there. No blood, no entry mark, it was as if nothing had ever happened. There was a little swelling that evening from the trauma of backing the hook out, but by morning it was as good as new.

The positive was that it renewed my focus to pay attention when landing fish with multiple trebles hanging out of their mouth. I know some folks look at this as a reason to smash barbs or not use trebles, but once every 35 years is a pretty fair track record, especially considering it was completely avoidable and only happened due to a moment of carelessness.

Any one else have an interesting self hooking story?

Here is what it looked like after I cut it and continued to fish.

Hmmmmm, not impressed at all, try that one with a lively, feisty & jumpy 2 lber hanging from the other treble hook of the crank bait.

OCdockskipper reply :

On 6/4/2016 at 4:32 AM, Raul said:

Hmmmmm, not impressed at all, try that one with a lively, feisty & jumpy 2 lber hanging from the other treble hook of the crank bait.

That was what happened, his thrashing is what drove the hook down my nail. He was on one treble & I was on the other, but fortunately I was able to pin him on the deck of the boat pretty quick to get him to stop moving. These pictures were after the fact, I wasn't really interested in any photography while I was still attached to the fish.

GetBent reply :

Not a fan of crankbaits lol had to cut the hook because the bass was flopping around too much. I pulled as hard as I could with pliers but stopped after I almost puked lol you can see the progress I made from the 2 pics. Dr tried pulling also and ended up cutting my finger enough for the hook to pop out.

frosty reply :

I got to cut a number 6 out of my nephews head when he was about 7, I must have told him a 100 times to stop walking with the hook swinging... I haven't seen him do it since, and he's 16 now.

FirstnameLastname reply :

Last year i was caught a rooster tail in a tree branch. To get it I had to pull the tree branch down and bend it. The branch slipped from my hand and the two hook points I had in my hand sprung back up with it. Needless to say it hurt

BassThumb reply :

Last summer my dad had a flopping northern pike put a KVD 2.5 treble right in his thumb knuckle. He couldn't even bend his finger. No way that was coming out. It cost him an urgency care clinic visit to get it surgically removed. $200 bill.

I've hooked myself a few times grabbing fish with Crankbaits in their mouths, and I was always able to easily rip them out with a needle nose, but his case was different. That was ugly.

Interestingly, I've never been hooked by a bass, only a walleye, northern and channel cat, and I fish for bass 95% of the time.

Bluebasser86 reply :

I've done it too many times, last time was a rattle trap in the side after I missed a fish and it came screaming back at me and stuck just back and below my armpit. Gardnerjigman was with me and he was able to push it through and cut the hook point so it could be backed out, you can see the threads from my shirt still stuck in the hook.

My dad got a good one the very first fish he ever caught with a Vision 110 last spring, which happened to be a flopping, slimy trout.

Jaderose reply :

Yep...last year. Rat-L-Trap with a 2 lb'er hooked on the other treble. Couldn't get it out and had to go to the ER. Now I wear I wear a Kevlar Knife glove on my left hand when I'm throwing trebles. A buddy made fun of me but I couldn't care less. That was an expensive, painful bass.

Jar11591 reply :

Last year, I had a rod leaning on the side of the boat with a senko dangling in the water while I tied a crankbait on to another rod. Rapala DT-6 to be exact. A bass came up and grabbed the dangling senko and almost took the rod with it. I panicked and reached to save the rod, and somehow ended up with a hook from the DT-6 in my thumb.

I gave it a few tugs, realized it was going to take some work and decided to ignore it and keep fishing, as the previous 2 days had been ON FIRE. After a few minutes I started to get dizzy, and I knew I couldn't fish through it so we decided to head in to take care of the hook in my thumb. My buddy and I wrenched on that hook for an hour with no luck. We tried to push it through to cut the barb, we tried to rip it out....nothing was working and it hurt like hell! I finally relented and went to urgent care. It even took the nurse about 20 minutes of working on my numbed-up thumb before it came loose. The worst part of the whole ordeal for me was the missed fishing day. It was the start of day 3 of what had been an incredible stretch of fishing. What could have been....

N Florida Mike reply :

When I was 24 I was night fishing a farm pond with a girlfriend and using a spoon with 5/0 hook.I felt a bump and reacted instinctively and jerked .But it was only a few feet out and the spoon came out and hit me in the right eye.I spun around and sat down.I reached up and gently pulled but it was in deep.I cut the line and had to hold the spoon up because it was pulling my eyeball down from the weight of it.We were both kind of in shock.She drove me to one of those acute care type clinics and when the doc saw it he made a face and told me to get to a hospital.Duh!!.

Anyway I was in surgery for 5 hours.The impact of the spoon detached the retina, destroyed the lens and damaged the iris.A doctor who was one of the best in the state did the surgery .He apparently didn't think he could save the eye but tried anyway.He agreed later it was a miracle that the eye was saved.

I just had a recent eye test, and with correction, the eye is now 20-20!.I'm very thankful.

I also got a small hook stuck just like the first post.I just rotated it around and gently pulled it and it slipped out.No sweat- if you've been hooked in the eye nothing else is a big deal!!

Jar11591 reply :

On 6/6/2016 at 10:14 AM, N Florida Mike said:

When I was 24 I was night fishing a farm pond with a girlfriend and using a spoon with 5/0 hook.I felt a bump and reacted instinctively and jerked .But it was only a few feet out and the spoon came out and hit me in the right eye.I spun around and sat down.I reached up and gently pulled but it was in deep.I cut the line and had to hold the spoon up because it was pulling my eyeball down from the weight of it.We were both kind of in shock.She drove me to one of those acute care type clinics and when the doc saw it he made a face and told me to get to a hospital.Duh!!.

Anyway I was in surgery for 5 hours.The impact of the spoon detached the retina, destroyed the lens and damaged the iris.A doctor who was one of the best in the state did the surgery .He apparently didn't think he could save the eye but tried anyway.He agreed later it was a miracle that the eye was saved.

I just had a recent eye test, and with correction, the eye is now 20-20!.I'm very thankful.

I also got a small hook stuck just like the first post.I just rotated it around and gently pulled it and it slipped out.No sweat- if you've been hooked in the eye nothing else is a big deal!!

d**n! Reading that makes me want to wear goggles when I fish. That's wild.

flyingmonkie reply :

I read this entire thread... couldn't stop myself... regret every second of it. Now I've got that weird pain in my "begonias". Thanks guys.

drc9805 reply :

Crazy thing is I just searched how to remove a fish hook for some reason several days ago, I just watched a Jimmy Houston episode where his wife had a treble hook past the barb in her arm and he pulled it out with fishing line, and now this thread pops up... I sure hope it's not a sign of things to come!!!

Cgrinder reply :

Good one from two Fridays ago. Took this before opening the gap with pliers and clipping the barb. Metal.

scaleface reply :

Did it again . This time had to visit the ER . Those Berkely Dredgers have some good hooks . I'm going to have to start using pliers to grip fish . What should I get .

whitwolf reply :

Goodnight Scale, that's awful. Seeing that makes me want to go purchase a Boga Grip.

A-Jay reply :

On 6/23/2017 at 8:13 AM, whitwolf said:

Goodnight Scale, that's awful. Seeing that makes me want to go purchase a Boga Grip.

I'll admit to getting hooked once ~ ONCE - a LONG time ago.

Since then, every fish hanging on treble hooks gets the Net and / or Boga Grip (or fish gripper) & hooks are removed with a pair of pliers or in my case hemostat type; never my fingers.

A-Jay

RoLo reply :

Over the past 65 years of fishing, I managed to hook myself twice.

The first time was saltwater fishing in the 80s, a day pursuing ling & whiting (red hake & silver hake).

At the washdown station, I was yanking rods out of the rod-holders like a madman

and ended up with a hook impaled in my ring finger. The rods were rigged with Christmas tree rigs,

which are like dropshot rigs but with 4 hooks on short dropper lines. My buddy said

"Let's get you a tetanus shot", but I elected instead to tear it out and forget about it (that worked).

The second time was just a few years ago, when I ended up with a treble hook in the top

of my index finger. Remembering my experience from about 30 years earlier, I pulled

with all my mite but that dang hook would not tear out. So I pushed the hook until the point

broke thru the other side, cut off the barb with a cutting pliers, then backed out the shank.

In hindsight, neither were big deals.

Roger

lonnie g reply :

just got a treble hook in the inside of my thy this week. thought this is not going to feel good coming out .I didn't feel a thing, one good side of my back trouble I guess.no feeling half the time. still didn't like it anyway.

scaleface reply :

I couldnt push this through .I tried .

XpressJeff reply :

Only done it once, pulling a tangled up mess of 4 or 5 rods out of a boat when a floppy rod with a Mepps snagged, popped loose and caught my forearm. Pushed it through, cut it off and all is well!

RPreeb reply :

I've never done it to myself, but reading this thread has made me even more determined than ever to be super careful. Just looking at some of those photos makes my queasy.

When we were kids I was fishing for sunfish off our dock in Wisconsin when, unbeknownst to me, my cousin came out on the dock behind me just as I was winding up to cast. I was fishing with bobber and worms, and I hooked him in the corner of the mouth just as if he was a fish. I think he was almost more bothered by the worm squirming around in his mouth than he was by the pain. My aunt took him to the doctor to have it removed. He was about 10 and I was 12 at the time.

N Florida Mike reply :

I won't tell about my hook in the eye ordeal again,but it's amazing that in 40+ years of fishing I've only been hooked 2 other times. I got a small bream hook in my pinky toe by the nail and just rotated it around and the hook just came out.I just got a circle hook in my foot a couple weeks ago and pushed it on through, but couldn't cut it in half.So I put pressure on the hook and cut the skin right down the shaft of the hook until it popped out. It was going to come out very one way or the other,'cause I was going fishing the next day but not by way of the E.R.

But after getting the hook in my eye those 2 episodes didn't bother me that much...

papajoe222 reply :

It's beginning to be a yearly ritual for me, three years running. Twice last year andonce this year already. The last four times I popped the hook out, or had someone at the launch do it for me. It freaked one guy out so much, he pulled rather than giving the loop a quick pop. He got it right the second time. Each time I was back fishing in no time. I now carry a loop of 60lb. braid in my on board first aid kit. I also started using a gripper to hold the fish when unhooking trebles.

frosty reply :

Well I finally got hooked... caught a dink on a jerkbait, he thrashed and drove the other hook into my middle finger tip. Luckily his thrashing got him off the hook, but still left me hooked up. I backed it back out, I couldn't pop it through, and I didn't want to cut the hook since that jerkbait had been money for me! Now I make sure my pliers are near me whenever I've got a treble hook lure on.

NHBull reply :

In the very near future, I am going to really have to pay attention to bleeding, but that's another story. This year all trebles gets a net, lip groups and pliars.

Also carry small bolt cutters and med kit that includes rubber 3m electric tape.

I fish by myself 80% of the time...

XpressJeff reply :

We're not 17 any more Bull!

It sucks, but it sure beats the alternative!

LxVE Bassin reply :

I feel better about myself now. I hook myself atleast 10 times a year.

Bass_Fishing_Socal reply :

On 6/23/2017 at 8:01 AM, scaleface said:

Did it again . This time had to visit the ER . Those Berkely Dredgers have some good hooks . I'm going to have to start using pliers to grip fish . What should I get .

Call me a chicken **** but I have 3 grippers one boga grip style for boat, one 9" plastic gripper for kayak and one 6" rapala gripper when I walk around bank fishing. If this happened to me (knock on wood) my wife would stop me fishing for good.

Another reminder stop pulling snag lure especially with mono or copolymer line, those things with come straight at you like torpedoed.

MickD reply :

On 6/3/2016 at 2:56 PM, OCdockskipper said:

A couple of weeks ago, I hooked myself for only the second time ever (the first was over 35 years ago).

I typically am pretty cautious when handling fish caught with lures featuring multiple treble hooks, but I must have been a little sleepy when the 4th cast of the morning resulted in a bass inhaling my Pop-R. I brought him to the boat, I reached down & lipped him and started to lift him. As I did, he shook and drove one of the trebles into my left thumb. I pinned him down to stop him from moving, unbuttoned him & released him (I could swear I heard him giggling as he hit the water). I looked at my thumb expecting to see a bloody mess, but instead found the treble had slid between my thumbnail and the cuticle, past the barb of the hook. No blood and as I suddenly realized, no pain. I removed the treble hook from the lure and attempted to manipulate the hook back out. Unfortunately, the nail bed prohibited me from the "hook pop" trick for removing hooks embedded in more meaty parts. I could turn the hook 90 degrees in either direction, so that the point was either under the nail bed or pressed up against the outside of the thumb. I figured the best bet was to create an exit hole & pop it back through.

As I thought about it more, I guessed popping it back through would make it bleed and cause some pain where I thumb the spool on my baitcaster. It wasn't even 6 am yet and I didn't want to ruin a whole day of fishing, so I made an executive decision. I cut the treble so that about a 1/2" of the hook was exposed through the nail. With that done, I had complete mobility with my thumb, no pain and a way to still remove the hook later. I stayed out on the water until about 3 pm with no effect on my casting or reeling, although I did land the rest of my fish left handed.

When I got home, I started to manipulate what was left of the hook to poke it through, but chickened out. I drove over to an urgent care center, they numbed the thumb up and backed the hook out without damaging the nail bed. Once the hook was out, you couldn't tell one was ever in there. No blood, no entry mark, it was as if nothing had ever happened. There was a little swelling that evening from the trauma of backing the hook out, but by morning it was as good as new.

The positive was that it renewed my focus to pay attention when landing fish with multiple trebles hanging out of their mouth. I know some folks look at this as a reason to smash barbs or not use trebles, but once every 35 years is a pretty fair track record, especially considering it was completely avoidable and only happened due to a moment of carelessness.

Any one else have an interesting self hooking story?

Here is what it looked like after I cut it and continued to fish.

It is my opinion that the method you chose not to use would have worked fine. The barb would have been pre-loaded away from the nail. 1. Pinch the other two barbs down. 2. Put the loop of heavy line under the imbedded hook. 3. Press lightly on the middle of the two exposed hooks. 4. Jerk the line very fast and hard, don't chicken out.

Some think that this method works only for small hooks, but it will work with pretty large hooks. I used it in Canada on a 2/0 spinnerbait trailer hook and it worked fine. No pain, no problems afterward.

Of course the surest thing to do is to take it to urgent care. But as you point out, that is sometimes really inconvenient. The biggest mistake one can make is to cut the hook off too close to the skin. You did well by cutting it off well out from the skin so the cut-off end couldn't get covered with flesh. I would have even tried for a little more distance.

frosty reply :

On 6/24/2017 at 11:48 PM, MickD said:

. Jerk the line very fast and hard, don't chicken out.

I chickened out once. Holy mother of God was I sorry I did!

fishwizzard reply :

I have yet to hook myself badly, but I had a nice little close call the other week.

It was my first outing with a heavy rod, went to set the hook and launched the toad back at me. It went through my pants and gave me the the tiniest little poke.

scaleface reply :

On 6/25/2017 at 4:29 AM, Bunnielab said:

I have yet to hook myself badly, but I had a nice little close call the other week.

It was my first outing with a heavy rod, went to set the hook and launched the toad back at me. It went through my pants and gave me the the tiniest little poke.

LOL , my nickname is Hose .You came close to being Splinkler Hose .

Kyhokie reply :

Im sure if we could ask a Bass, they would say Hooking yourself is no big deal. Just give it a few days, it will definitively rust out. ???

MickD reply :

On 6/25/2017 at 4:29 AM, Bunnielab said:

I have yet to hook myself badly, but I had a nice little close call the other week.

It was my first outing with a heavy rod, went to set the hook and launched the toad back at me. It went through my pants and gave me the the tiniest little poke.

I won't guarantee that the press and jerk method will work in this area. I can guarantee that you are going to have to do the whole operation yourself.

boudroux reply :

As a kid I buried a hook in my brothers thigh canoe fishing. My dad pushed it through to cut the barb. It was 30 years ago and I can still vividly remember how much skin stretches before that hook pushed through.

I just did this building a ceiling mount rod rack.

N Florida Mike reply :

On 6/28/2017 at 12:23 AM, boudroux said:

As a kid I buried a hook in my brothers thigh canoe fishing. My dad pushed it through to cut the barb. It was 30 years ago and I can still vividly remember how much skin stretches before that hook pushed through.

I just did this building a ceiling mount rod rack.

Dang .How did you get that out?

frosty reply :

On 6/28/2017 at 12:23 AM, boudroux said:

As a kid I buried a hook in my brothers thigh canoe fishing. My dad pushed it through to cut the barb. It was 30 years ago and I can still vividly remember how much skin stretches before that hook pushed through.

I just did this building a ceiling mount rod rack.

NAILED IT!

FishnFritz reply :

Last month I caught a dink on a crank bait. He went all slap happy when I tried to get the hooks out and he drove one of the trebles into the middle of my thumb. Thank god I wasn't alone on the boat that day. My buddy came over and got the fish off the hook and handed me a pair of side cutters. I cut the hooks off that were not in me and worked for an hour trying to get it out of my thumb. I couldn't get it out and my buddy who throws up at the sight of blood was no help. (Didn't want his help. No barf in the boat!) After that hour of pain I drove the boat back to the marina, loaded the boat and straight to the Er. After 4 more hours of waiting and 1500.00 later, hook removed... put a new hook on he crank bait. And still catching fish with it. Gonna be sad if I ever loose

my 1500.00 crank bait.

scaleface reply :

Todays the first day back since I buried a treble hook in my thumb . I took no chances . The bench seat had a new fish grip , needle nose pliers , Leatherman , and hemostats laying on it . They all got used . In my bag were side cutters and a new split ring tool .

boudroux reply :

On 6/28/2017 at 5:51 AM, N Florida Mike said:

Dang .How did you get that out?

My first attempt to remove was using my bench vice but the angle wasn't right to be able to pull it out so I grabbed a pair of linesman pliers and had my wife hold them and I jerked it out. The darn tetnis shot hurt more than nailing myself.

frosty reply :

On 7/6/2017 at 11:32 PM, boudroux said:

My first attempt to remove was using my bench vice but the angle wasn't right to be able to pull it out so I grabbed a pair of linesman pliers and had my wife hold them and I jerked it out. The darn tetnis shot hurt more than nailing myself.

Oh I'm sorry, pardon me, I was just vomiting in my mouth

hunterPRO1 reply :

im 15, been fishing pretty much my whole life, and have never stuck myself past the barb.... yet.

pondbassin101 reply :

Don't ask how, but I managed to get a rusty treble straight into the meat of my left thumb past the barb. I still don't know how I managed to pull it out without damaging something and getting tetnis

scaleface reply :

On 7/7/2017 at 12:23 AM, hunterPRO1 said:

im 15, been fishing pretty much my whole life, and have never stuck myself past the barb.... yet.

It took me 50 years to join the club .

pondbassin101 reply :

On 7/6/2017 at 11:40 PM, frosty said:

Oh I'm sorry, pardon me, I was just vomiting in my mouth

the picture was more then enough for me

kadas reply :

On 6/24/2017 at 4:24 AM, LxVE Bassin said:

I feel better about myself now. I hook myself atleast 10 times a year.

I believe if I hooked myself 10 times a YEAR I would find a better way to handle fish or take up a different hobby!!

On 6/28/2017 at 6:06 AM, frosty said:

NAILED IT!

WOW!! I know for certain I do not want to build anything with you!!

A-Jay reply :

On 6/24/2017 at 4:24 AM, LxVE Bassin said:

I hook myself atleast 10 times a year.

You're doing it wrong.

A-Jay

12poundbass reply :

On 6/28/2017 at 12:23 AM, boudroux said:

As a kid I buried a hook in my brothers thigh canoe fishing. My dad pushed it through to cut the barb. It was 30 years ago and I can still vividly remember how much skin stretches before that hook pushed through.

I just did this building a ceiling mount rod rack.

I have to to join the hook club yet (I've drawn blood but that's it) but I'm a member of the nail gun club and I've renewed my membership 3 times! 16d all 3 time luckily all were in the meat and none in the bone. All 3 I pulled out, hurt worse days after than when I did it.

sully420 reply :

This didn't happen while I was fishing. But I work at a local Lake in my hometown where we have sailboat buoys which basically consists of a 1500 pound anchor a chain in the buoy on top. So I live in Minnesota and every fall we need to remove the buoys and every spring we put them back in we do this by attaching 12 gauge wire to each chain find the wire pull it off the bottom and in the chain comes up. After a long couple days of doing this job I was down to my last 10 buoys to put in was about a 15 mile an hour wind I'm pulling this wire and pull in this wire the chain comes up I go to grab it I don't really feel anything but a little pinch then the wind starts blowing the boat and my hand stays with the chain and I look down and I have a 6 ought treble hook in the palm of my hand all the way into the muscle that's some musky fisherman got snagged on. I ended up having to go to the doctor and having its lice out of my hand and three stitches in my palm

frosty reply :

On 7/7/2017 at 2:10 AM, kadas said:

WOW!! I know for certain I do not want to build anything with you!!

I've had a few drywall screws stuck in my hands, very painful to back out with a drywall gun, but I haven't nailgunned myself, at least not any that went in like that!

npl_texas reply :

Throwing a lipless and caught a big *** catfish. Stepdad netted him and I reached in and before I knew the hooks were in me. Somehow someway after I was hooked everything came out of the net and the fish came off. Had he not it would probably have ripped the tips of my fingers off. You can see in the pick I'm hooked through the top of my middle finger nail and what you can't see is the other treble hooked up under my pointer. It hurt pretty bad and my wife is a nurse so I went to the ER. A couple of shots to numb the pain and the doc was able to pull the hooks out pretty easily. Honestly it never even really hurt after that. That'll make you be really careful around trebles.

LxVE Bassin reply :

I caught a fish on a spook today and of course I got hooked twice in 2 different places. I will be using lip grippers from here on out when I am using a lure with treble hooks.

scaleface reply :

I've been using Fish Grips a lot since i acquired them .

There is a Fish grip Jr that I think would be more useful .

hoosierbass07 reply :

All these posts reaffirms my belief that treble hooks are unsporting, unsafe, and the fishing world would be better off without them. Last night fishing from my kayak I was using the Spo rat, catching lots of small bass. But it was a pain getting the hooks out of their mouths. And then one bass had a treble in its eye or near it. One bass jerked so much it got away from the treble hooks and the rat was tossed up near my head. If it was only a few inches over it would have hit my face.

If you want to kill a fish then go ahead and use treble hooks. But as sport, treble hooks are very unsporting and dangerous to all involved. Hopefully some day treble hooks will go the way of the 8-Track player.

scaleface reply :

On 7/10/2017 at 6:32 AM, hoosierbass07 said:

If you want to kill a fish then go ahead and use treble hooks. But as sport, treble hooks are very unsporting and dangerous to all involved. Hopefully some day treble hooks will go the way of the 8-Track player.

...but I like 8 tracks.

frosty reply :

On 7/10/2017 at 8:09 AM, scaleface said:

...but I like 8 tracks.

What the hecks an 8 track???

Bass_Fishing_Socal reply :

On 7/10/2017 at 6:32 AM, hoosierbass07 said:

All these posts reaffirms my belief that treble hooks are unsporting, unsafe, and the fishing world would be better off without them. Last night fishing from my kayak I was using the Spo rat, catching lots of small bass. But it was a pain getting the hooks out of their mouths. And then one bass had a treble in its eye or near it. One bass jerked so much it got away from the treble hooks and the rat was tossed up near my head. If it was only a few inches over it would have hit my face.

If you want to kill a fish then go ahead and use treble hooks. But as sport, treble hooks are very unsporting and dangerous to all involved. Hopefully some day treble hooks will go the way of the 8-Track player.

I would like to see lures with single hook too, I hate treble hooks. It just plain to unhook, dangerous to human and the fish. In fact, I think I might just change all my top water lures to single hook if I can find a suitable one(any recommendation?) other lure like jerkbait crankbait and lipless changing hook might compromise on action of the lure itself.

On 7/9/2017 at 6:12 AM, scaleface said:

I've been using Fish Grips a lot since i acquired them .

There is a Fish grip Jr that I think would be more useful .

Fish Grip Jr. If you mean the 6" one, I don't think you would like it that much as 9" one. I used to have 6" one in my kayak but now change to 9" one instead. I use 6" one when bank fishing or to weight my fish.

scaleface reply :

My latest installment . Three years in a row . I pushed it through and snipped it off . Those dredger hooks are too sharp .

haggard reply :

Got three new crankbaits today and as I was about to replace the dual trebles with a single single, thought to myself maybe I'll just stop being so fussy and leave the treble on there. After reading this thread, nope. I have absolutely no problem with needles, drawing blood, etc. but the self hook with barb freaks me out a bit. The lures now have singles, with barbs crushed.

FishDewd reply :

Ow! What a painful, horrible thread! :annoyed1: I've never stuck myself beyond a minor poke or two, mostly when putting a lure on a line. I learned a long time ago to never lip a treble hooked fish... always kinda been common sense to me. I'm much more likely to hold the fish itself by the body. In the case of catfish, since they tend to clamp down, I will hold the mouth open with a pair of wide mouth pliers. I usually remove the trebles in any case with a pair of needlenose pliers. If you aren't carrying that equipment I don't see why you'd be using treble hooks. Things are dangerous.

Bluebasser86 reply :

On 4/27/2018 at 9:24 AM, scaleface said:

My latest installment . Three years in a row . I pushed it through and snipped it off . Those dredger hooks are too sharp .

One thing I really like about the Berkley baits, those Fusion hooks are no joke. Always nice to buy a decently priced, quality bait with good hooks out of the box, but it's best they don't end up there.

Glaucus reply :

I had a 3lb LMB put 3 out of 6 Whopper Plopper hooks deep into my hand. Didn't have pliers with me. Never again.

scaleface reply :

This last time the treble was sticking out of a tackle box with the lid latched .I reached in the satchel to remove the box .

EGbassing reply :

Never hooked my self in my life. My brother once hooked me with a circle hook though...

Glaucus reply :

Last year I narrowly escaped what could have been a really bad situation. It was very windy outside and so the wind tossed my lipless crankbait into the weeds. I tugged and tugged until it finally got free - but it snapped back at me and the lipless crankbait smacked me in the face just below my right eye. So much force that it left a bruise. Miraculously no hook got me, and thank God it missed my eye.

Pro Logcatcher reply :

I had a four pound bass nab a Whopper Plopper while pond fishing. It was an easy fight because one treble had closed his mouth. Not so easy when he puts the second hook through one finger. He's still attached and doing his signature headshakes! That was NOT fun. Now I carry pliers with me and don't go near any treble hooks when there is a capricious fish on the end of them.

Further North reply :

I stuck myself once, 4/0 hook, tried to lip a too-green bass that drove the point straight into the joint of my left thumb. Hard.

I was alone, had to subdue the fish, get it in the water, cut the hook, back it out of the joint, then push it through past the barb to cut the tip off so I could clip that off and back it out.

Backing the barb out of the joint darn near made me pass out on the first try...had to lie down, control my breathing, drink some water, and give another shot.

Got 'er done, then had to force the point and barb through...more fun.

These days, I pinch my barbs, and use a net when possible, or better yet, lean over the side and slip the hook out while the fish is still in the water with a pair of pliers on the hook shank...

There is no fish, anywhere on the planet, that I need to put in boat enough to not pinch the barbs...don't care what anyone says, I don't lose 2 fish a year because I don't have barbs...

All about da bass reply :

My buddy and I were flipping some grass one day, I was on deck running the trolling motor, i missed a fish and it stole my pinchers from the craw. I told him he could run while I got down to get a new craw and rig it. Well when I laid my rod down to grab the hook and craw, his foot caught the braided line and got a really good hook set on my hand. I don't have any pics but that 5 ought trokar flipping hook went throw that flap skin in between your thumb and my index finger.

Further North reply :

On 4/28/2018 at 8:40 AM, All about da bass said:

My buddy and I were flipping some grass one day, I was on deck running the trolling motor, i missed a fish and it stole my pinchers from the craw. I told him he could run while I got down to get a new craw and rig it. Well when I laid my rod down to grab the hook and craw, his foot caught the braided line and got a really good hook set on my hand. I don't have any pics but that 5 ought trokar flipping hook went throw that flap skin in between your thumb and my index finger.

Ouch. I'll bet you said something multi-syllabic like, "Gosh-darn-cheese-and-rice-some-of-it-itches!"

I would have...

keagbassr reply :

One year ago today had a pickeral thrash out of my grip and do this to me.

frosty reply :

On 4/28/2018 at 9:16 AM, keagbassr said:

One year ago today had a pickeral thrash out of my grip and do this to me.

“Let me just snap a pic of this before I pass out...” that’s a nasty one!

keagbassr reply :

On 4/28/2018 at 10:15 AM, frosty said:

“Let me just snap a pic of this before I pass out...” that’s a nasty one!

Nah wasn't so bad just went back to my truck grabbed my linesmans had my nephew who was with me cut it cleaned it up and back out casting 5 minutes later.

JLewis134 reply :

On 4/28/2018 at 9:16 AM, keagbassr said:

One year ago today had a pickeral thrash out of my grip and do this to me.

Yikes. My stomach drops when I see this. Its a very familar feeling to me. Recently, I stepped on a KVD 1.5 and it was not fun.

keagbassr reply :

On 4/28/2018 at 12:25 PM, JLewis134 said:

Yikes. My stomach drops when I see this. Its a very familar feeling to me. Recently, I stepped on a KVD 1.5 and it was not fun.

I think I'd prefer to be stuck in the hand than the foot especially if solo extraction is required.

JLewis134 reply :

On 4/29/2018 at 1:16 AM, keagbassr said:

I think I'd prefer to be stuck in the hand than the foot especially if solo extraction is required.

I definitely agree. But fortunately for me it wasn't as bad as the one in the picture through his finger.

Stephen B reply :

Yikes!

Lead Head reply :

Never hooked myself past the barb, but did take a 3/8oz (I think) bullet sinker to the head. As I mentioned in the name thread, I figure Lead Head was earned here. In this picture (assuming I get it to post) I had already moved it. Originally it was farther around and completely hidden.

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