Worst time hooking yourself 2024

Luke at Gouldsboro reply :

Everyone has done it. Let's hear about your

self -hooking stories ;D

Wild Bill [NY] reply :

I am known on some Bass fishing sites as 'the back-seat hoohah", as I have gotten invites that I have taken guys up on to come fish with them all over the USA on thier boats.

Whenever I take a flying trip, I bring rods, and make posts that 'hey, I am flying down to hopefully do some fishing there", and offer to pay the ramp and gas money to help pay the day's expenses, getting many, many fishing invites that way.

On one particular trip to California , there on a family vacation, a guy invites me to come fish San Luis Reservoir near Gilroy for freshwater Striped Bass, which I gladly took him up on.

I meet the guy at the ramp early in the morning, and in about ten minutes, I have about an 8 pound Striper on a big topwater walking bait, and I land it.

As I go to unbutton it, it totally goes ballistic and flips itself over in my hand, sticking me with THREE hookpoints into my stronger, right hand which I was holding it with, with two of the points going in WAY past the barbs; the other hookpoint easily pulled out.

I put my fish down onto the carpeted deck , and put my left foot on it to stop it from flailing around on my now well stuck hand.

My boating host looks over, sees how bad it is hooked into me, and says "we're gonna have to go to the hospital".

I say, let me get this fish off first, and then I'll see how bad it really is [despite my pain and embarassment then].

No way do I want to blow this guy's day of fishing, nor do I want to stop fishing either.

I get my pliers out, unbutton the fish, and then go about popping the points out of me with the pliers.

By now, I am bleeding pretty good, and am making a bloody mess on the back deck. I quickly rinse as much blood from the deck by splashing water up with my left hand, while holding my bleeding hand in the water to numb it, and to stop bleeding onto the boat.

He had a first aid kit onboard, so after a while, I fixed up some bandages to stop the bleeding, and continued to fish all day, catching many more that day with him.

He said I was hard core to the bone...and I have an open invite to fish with him anytime I am in California again.

In nearly fifty years of bassing with lures, that was my personal worst, but I have been stuck with single hooks many times, but those were 2X wire owner treble hooks, and BIG ones that time.

I still have scars from it.

ProCrafter reply :

Columbia River at Tri-Cities...club tourney...had Smallies stacked up and were getting 1-1/2 lbers almost every cast on lipless cranks...got one to hand was trying to llip it when my partner got a better keeper...fish slid down my hand and the treble caught my ring finger on my right hand and the fish started shaking driving the hook to the bone......finally corralled the fish and overboarded him....had to cut the shank and push the hook through my finger as the barb was buried...almost blacked out!!! left two holes making me the newest member of what we call "The Snakebite Club"

Helluva_Engineer reply :

Not me, but my gf. She caught a 1 lb or so LM on a rapala minnow. When she went to unhook it and it flopped around and drove the hook home into her thumb. I'm not sure the rationale in her response, but she freaked and started waving her hand around with the bass still hanging from the lure and I couldn't get a hold of the thing. After about a minute of yelling at her to put her hand on the ground she got the message and I was able to get the fish off and I cut the lure off the pole. She fainted the first time at that point. She fainted again when she asked me what I was thinking about and I responded honestly that I was trying to figure out how to push the barb back through. Unfortunately the hook was too small and set too deep for that so I had to use a pocket knife to guide the barb out. Somehow this was all my fault for at least two weeks :

fishfordollars reply :

They're all bad. Trying not to think about them.

grimlin reply :

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Not me, but my gf. She caught a 1 lb or so LM on a rapala minnow. When she went to unhook it and it flopped around and drove the hook home into her thumb. I'm not sure the rationale in her response, but she freaked and started waving her hand around with the bass still hanging from the lure and I couldn't get a hold of the thing. After about a minute of yelling at her to put her hand on the ground she got the message and I was able to get the fish off and I cut the lure off the pole. She fainted the first time at that point. She fainted again when she asked me what I was thinking about and I responded honestly that I was trying to figure out how to push the barb back through. Unfortunately the hook was too small and set too deep for that so I had to use a pocket knife to guide the barb out. Somehow this was all my fault for at least two weeks :

Wild Bill [NY] reply :

A funny one this time...

I love to share fishing with kids, taking them out on my Ranger often.

Every summer in July, I go up to upstate NY where we have vacationed for many , many years in a small lakeside "adirondack camp".

It has nine cabins in it, and nine families share the "camp" for a weeklong stay, and often , it's the same clans or families for the same weeks , year after year.

Well, being a small camp, everyone in camp knows I am a real fishing enthusiast, and that I will share my boat and gear with those willing to give it a whirl.

A teenage girl asked me if I could take her fishing one of the days, and after getting approval from her Mom and grandparents, we went out fishing on my boat.

Young Meaghan was about 13 or 14 at the time, and she was into it bigtime. Well, we get into a good Rapala Minnow bite, with smallies coming up to crush them as we just twitch them slightly as they sit on top of the water.

Well, after landing a few fish, Meagan again gets attacked, but this time sets too soon, pulling the lure away and rocketing it back into the boat, with it sticking my earlobe with it's rearmost hook totally piercing my lower earlobe.

I cut the line by the lure , but not having any good wire cutters nor mirror aboard, I just left it dangling there, and tied another onto her line, and we continued to fish until it was dark out. We motored back to the camp, and her Mom and grandparents come running down to the dock as we tied up, asking 'how'd you do" to us as they approached.

I responded back, "Meaghan got the big one; it weighs about 250 pounds", and then turned that ear towards them, shaking my head so the #11 gold Rapala flailed about so they could see it.

Her Mom gasped, and said she take me to the local hospitals to get it removed, to which I said no, I would tend to it.

I walked up to my truck, and got a good pair of diagonal cutting pliers. Then with a mirror, I cut the hook point with the barb off, so I could back the rest of the hook out easily.

I am glad Meaghan did not want a skin mount of her 250 pounder. ;D

VABassin'14 reply :

The funniest ones are when a friend hooks you. Not funny at the time, but hilarious years later. The only time I hooked myself was when a got the line wrapped around the handle of the reel and tried to cast it. The lure flung back around and burried itself into the side of my knee. This was when I was 9 years old. My dad pushed the hook back through the skin and cut the barb.

b.Lee reply :

Honestly I have yet to do it, I probably have cut my hand more on line or with my knife then anything else.

bass or bass ? reply :

Once, while fishing from my grandparents dock in Ft. Lauderdale Florida when i was 14 , I stepped on a 3/0 hook, sinking the point deep in my foot. I'd never done this before, and had no idea what to do. Logic told me to push the hook back through the meat and skin till the point was exposed, then cut off the barb and back the hook out, so that's what I did. I haven't done it again since.

Hornytoad 10 reply :

one time, i was in a hurry and so i cut off one of my treble hooks, left it laying in the floor ,and never thought about it....until my mom stepped on it!! her and dad went to the emergency room and didn't come back until 11:00 p.m, i felt so bad.

Fishing Rhino reply :

Only hooked my self once. Last year.

My canoe was parked in the weeds in the shallows. In front was a ridge of stones that ran out into about five feet of water.

On three casts, I had caught three nice bass, the third was between four and five pounds, maybe a tad more.

My scale was beneath the rods in the rack in front of me. As I reached for the scale, I felt a sting, and knew I had snagged myself.

Yep, the forward treble had hooked me in the base of my thumb.

The heck with the scale. Put the bass back in the water, then tried to get the hook out.

If someone had been with me, the string technique would have worked fine, but alas, I was fishing alone.

I tried to do the same action by gripping the hook with needle nose pliers, but, it would not budge.

OK, maybe I can force the point trough the skin and either cut it below the barb, or press the barb closed.

Try as I might, the best I could do was to raise what looked like a white pimple where the point was trying to exit.

Funny, it did not hurt much. No sense no feeling, perhaps.

The fish were being extremely cooperative, and leaving was my last resort. My only resort as things turned out.

Could not move the hook one way or the other.

So, with the Rapala, dangling from my hand, I paddled back to where the canoe gets launched, loaded all the gear into the back of my pickup, but could not go directly to the hospital.

I dared not leave my truck parked with all the gear visible and vulnerable.

So, home to unload. When I got home, I positioned the lure in a neutral position so the hook was not exerting any force against the tissue around the wound.

Then I put some tape around the tail hook lest I snag something, or someone else.

Off to the ER. My daughter works in the ER, and my wife is the Chief Nursing Officer, and connections do expedite things.

As I was walking in one of the ER docs was just ahead of me. I followed him and when he paused, I caught up and asked if this was a good place to get "this" removed as I showed him the lure affixed to my hand.

He told me I was in luck since he was the only doc that knew how to remove the hook.

Told him I did, and had done it when someone fishing with me had snagged himself in a similar way with a Rebel.

He asked how I would do it. Told him the string technique. Kinda deflated him to realize that a non medical guy knew his technique.

Took him a couple of minutes to gather the heavy suture material, and with a couple of other ER docs watching, to see how it was done, bingo, the hook was extracted.

Didn't even put a bandage on it.

Went home, loaded the canoe, went back to the pond and to the spot where I hooked the biggest catch of the day, me, and caught a few more.

With the hook removed, I was pain free. What amazed me is that the area wasn't in the least tender.

spinners reply :

I HAVE HOOKED MYSELF THREE TIMES IN THE LAST YEAR,THE FIRST I WENT TO THE HOSPITAL IT, WAS IN A FINGER TIP AND I JUST COULD NOT GET IT TO BUDGE AT ALL,BUT AFTER I SAW THE BILL FROM THE E.R.I FOUND I COULD TAKE MY POCKET KNIFE AND MAKE A LITTLE ROOM FOR THE BARB,AND GET AT LEAST MOST OF THEM OUT,A FEW TEARS AND SOME BLOOD COST A LOT LESS THAN A VISIT TO TH LOCAL E.R.-------I WOULD SUGGEST HOWEVER CARRYING SOME ORA GEL-FOR A TOOTH ACHE IN YOUR BOAT --YEA- COMES FROM EXPERANCE :-[

Bassin for Walleye reply :

Was reeling in a crankbait of some sort and got some grass on it so I brought it up and took the grass off. Opened the bail and noticed I had left a string of grass hanging off so i grabbed it with my middle finger and ring finger and went to cast and "Son of a *****" Luckily it didn't go past the barb but it still didn't feel too good

bassfisherjk reply :

Thankfully I have never hooked myself.A few years ago,Both of my boys were in the boat with me. We were having a great time when all of a sudden my youngest(10 at the time)screamed loudly.His Brother was casting and the worm hook caught him in the lower lip. By the time I got calmed down and got a pair of snips,my son pulled the hook from his own lip.He didn't seem any worse for the wear,so we went back to fishing.

MN Bass Man reply :

When I was about 4 I went shore fishing for bluegills at a small pond with my dad and a neighbor kid. We kind of spread out along the bank with some small trees separating us. Well, the neighbor kid was making an overhand cast with a too much line out and when he cast, his hook caught me in the neck, right under my chin. Thinking he had snagged in the tree near him, he started whipping the rod, trying do dislodge it from the tree. He didn't seem to notice my screams, but my dad did and got him to stop. By that time, he had torn a gash in my neck about a half inch long. Luckily, with that much play, the hook backed right out. I will remember that day for the rest of my life.

SoFlaBassAddict reply :

Let me start by saying I've never hooked myself thankfully. I've been hooked a few times by my daughters, nothing major thankfully.

The one thing that stands out in my mind was one day trolling offshore. My boat and a friends boat a few miles away. We were working a long weedline and working several large schools of dolphin while making our way back towards each other. As we were picking up our lines we get a call on the radio saying they needed help badly.

So we drag the rest of our gear in and haul butt over to the other boat where we see my friends dad with a 8/0 or 9/0 hook lodged into his chin. Apparently they got into a small blue marlin that was crusing along the weeds and as they got him near the transom the fish spooked and threw the lure. Hit him right in the face. Had to drive back roughly 30 miles to the docks, then another half hour 45 minutes to the hospital to get the shank cut. Then they had to go in surgically to remove the rest of the hook. They took a few hours because they were worried about nerve damage to the face, etc etc. Needless to say that ruined a really good day fishing.

Pez reply :

I was tying on 2/0 offset worm hook and and went to pull tight with my teeth, and my dad hooked on with a bass, so I was distracted and the hook went right into the inside of my cheek. But it didnt go all the way in that the shank caught!

little_stephen reply :

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As I go to unbutton it, it totally goes ballistic and flips itself over in my hand, sticking me with THREE hookpoints into my stronger, right hand which I was holding it with, with two of the points going in WAY past the barbs.

NEVER lip a fish or try to unhook a fish that is landed ona lure with trebles! use a net if u can, and a pair of pliers, those things are HORRIBLE! I know!

My story really quick.

I didnt even earn the honor of landing a fish........ it was mid winter last year when i was reorganizing my gear for the 9th or 10th time and i decided that my one football jigs skirt was in serious need of some TLC. So i snipped the band and went to work. at some point I must have lost my grip, because the 1oz All Terran Tackle Football Jig and its MASSIVELY thick hook punctured straight into the core of the meaty soft part of my right hand thumb. well past the back barb, but not coming out the other side. I lived with my parents at this time, itwas of course like 1 or 2 in the morning and the last thing i wanted to do was wake them or the dog up. so i grabbed a leather belt, a pair of pliers, and a first aid kit. went into the bathroom furthest from their bedroom, "sanitized" the wound with alot of hydrogen poroxide. then bit down hard on that belt (so hard i left teeth marks) and "carefully" "extracted" the jig from my thumb.

I paid dearly for that mistake. Im a college drumline snare drummer, and by day i work a job that requires me to type all day long.... needles to say. work was hell the next day, and drumline rehearsal that night i was in so much agony that i dont remember most of that 3.5 hour rehearsal............ So, lesson learned, watch where u place ur fingers! ;D

Boogey Man reply :

So far I've done it twice. The first time, I was using a Heddon Baby Torpedo and I was hung in a tree. Like an idiot, I gave it a big jerk and it flew back and hit me on the shin, about an inch from the shin bone on the inside of my leg. I took my pliers and pushed the point though but the barb wouldn't go through. So I took my pliers and pulled on the point while my buddy grabbed the shank of the hook with his pliers and pushed. Man, when the barb finally went through it made a sickening "pop" that we swore you could have heard on the other side of the lake. Then I was able to cut the barb off. He still gives me a hard time that I ruined our morning by causing us to miss the topwater bite.

The second time I was by myself and caught a 6 or 7 inch bass on a Pop-R. I had him lipped and he decided he didn't like it in my boat so he started flopping and got me just down from my thumb in the fat part next to the palm. So here I am with the little bass attached to a Pop-R on one hook and me on the other hook. Luckily, he fell off and I pushed the hook on through.

tritz18 reply :

Was going to lip a smallie and the hook point went into my palm past the barb. Somehow the hook moved slightly when my friend was removing it from the fish and it just fell out. But my whole palm was sore for the rest of the day.

quanjig reply :

Done it twice. Same lure, two different places. Tiny torpedo...... First time, tying on the lure, pulling lime tight with tag end in my teeth. Line broke pulling back treb in my lip past the barb, that was fun!! Second time, fishing around dusk, caught on the end of weed. Pulled a bit to hard to free it and it came back at me " just like a torpedo". All I herd was the prop on that bad boy ripping back at me at warp speed!! Put my arm up to protect my face and it hit me right in the forearm. Waited for it to hit the deck of the boat and realized that wasn't happening 'cause it was hurried in my arm past the barb. Both times was able to remove hooks from flesh with a bit of flesh and blood. Nothing worth going to ER for but I don't fish with torpedo's anymore!!!

Elite Image Fishing reply :

I hooked my pinkies together (like chinese handcuffs) with a red-eye shad. Good times. As I walked in the E.R I stuck my hands through the tiny window and said to the lady, "I need you to fix this." The look on her face was priceless.

Kenny418 reply :

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I hooked my pinkies together (like chinese handcuffs) with a red-eye shad. Good times. As I walked in the E.R I stuck my hands through the tiny window and said to the lady, "I need you to fix this." The look on her face was priceless.

Lmao ;D. So far only once for me. Knelt on a crank bait while landing a fish. Got me right below the knee cap. Buried 2 out of 3. You would not believe how tough your skin is on your knee. My co-angler apparently could not handle me removing the hooks. he fell out of the chair and onto the deck. ;D

eastkybass reply :

When I was around 4 my family was crappie fishing at Cave run Lake off my Grandfather's old Ranger. My Mom leans back to make a cast when she comes forward she looks out and the bobber hook and sinker aren't flying out to the spot she tried for. She turns around looks behind her doesn't see anything so she reels up and starts looking around about that time she looks right at me and hanging from my right ear is her hook with minnow still on it flipping around. She starts to panic and my Dad walks over to cut it off. She walks up beside him and all I say very comely is and I quote "Mommy you hooked me." :

Poolie727 reply :

Only once... so far. I was about 12, early one Sunday morning on my parents 20 acre lake in a jon boat. As I was lipping a 2 or so pounder it had one last shake in it and the next thing I know one set of treble hooks was in her mouth and the other set was in my hand. One hook was buried all the way up to where the three come together so there was no way to pull the barb though.

I managed to get the fish off and in the excitement tossed it in the dry well instead... oops. Anyway, I rowed back one-handed and woke my mom up and asked her to take me to the hospital. My dad woke up and said, get me a steak knife. MOM!!!!

The folks at the emergency room were amused.

Bankbeater reply :

Barb on a treble went in between my left ring finger and my middle finger. It didn't bleed very much and it didn't hurt very bad. Tried to pull it back out and push it through but it wouldn't move, like it was stuck on something. Got down the the emergency room and the Dr. said that it was through a nerve. After they cut it out and the novacaine wore off it hurt like the devil.

Tucson reply :

That's what you get for playing with sharp hooks!

I always dull mine up really well so this doesn't happen.

Tom H. reply :

Last summer , lipping a 4 lber. He burried the hooks to the bone , quick trip to the E.R. and all was well , except for my GF . For some reason she hit the deck when she saw the Dr. take the hooks out of my knuckle .

VersatileFuturian reply :

This isn't me but I can't imagine anything worse. Always wear your sunglasses.

done reply :

Never!! First of all it is illegal in NC and my wife would not put up with that nonsense.

Seriously though, got myself in the leg with a crankbait (not bad though), and the closest to a hospital trip for me was after I nailed a 6lber. I was being stupid and had a good deal of line tension while I was pulling a deepset hook out with a pair of needlenose. The hook came free, the tension pulled it out of the needlenose and it promptly found a new home in my hand. Luckily it went at a shallow enough angle that it just was a simple flesh wound and I could remove myself.

Wild Bill [NY] reply :

My guess is that person was involved in either some kind of car/truck crash , or boat crash, where the lure got into is eye due to that.

Look at all the other bruises and blood all over on him.

Or somebody opened a very big can of whooparse on him.

Looks like he had a very, very, very bad day one way or another.

tholmes reply :

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Lmao ;D. So far only once for me. Knelt on a crank bait while landing a fish. Got me right below the knee cap. Buried 2 out of 3. You would not believe how tough your skin is on your knee. My co-angler apparently could not handle me removing the hooks. he fell out of the chair and onto the deck. ;D

Similar story - I was striper fishing with my buddy in his boat. I had just boated a pretty good fish and had my lure (a Storm Big Mac) laying on the floor of the boat beside the rear seat when another boat came speeding by, MUCH too close. The wake rocked our boat and caused me to lose my balance as I leaned over to pick up the lure. I fell on the lure, burying two of the barbs WAY deep into my knee. Had to push both of them through and cut 'em off.

Another hook story. Same boat, same buddy, only this time his wife was with us. We were chasing surfacing schools of sand bass around a local lake, casting Kastmaster spoons into the melee. He cranked up for a long cast at the same time his wife decided to stand up. As he whipped the rod forward, he buried the treble hook right in her scalp. Strained the ol' marital relations a little.

Tom

Fishbone reply :

I was on a woodworkers forum for a while when someone asked about accidents in their shops. That produced one long thread of bloody mangled flesh. A real horror show. I was almost reluctant to open this thread, thinking it might be more of the same. ;D

jc450r reply :

Hate it for this guy:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKAAGWZskGg

Poolie727 reply :

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I was on a woodworkers forum for a while when someone asked about accidents in their shops. That produced one long thread of bloody mangled flesh. A real horror show. I was almost reluctant to open this thread, thinking it might be more of the same. ;D

Oh yeah... I've done way more damage to myself in the woodshop than fishing. Last Spring I jammed a wood chisel into my left palm. That was a 21 stitch mistake I won't soon forget.

WRB reply :

This link may help you:

http://www.aafp.org/afp/2001/0601/p2231.html

Over the years I have manage to hook myself or others in my boat have hooked me, several times.

I use a net whenever fishing with multiple treble hook lures. I was fishing with a business associate for big bass and he caught a 14.2 lb bass on a deep diving crankbait. I don't like to use nets on big bass, so going agianst my normal net the bass with treble hook lures, I lipped it. I always remove the lure before taking pictures or weighing the bass. This time John had his camera ready as soon as I grabbed the bass and wanted to get a picture of it being landed. Without thinking, I put the bass back into the water, John got ready and I lifted it out so water would splash with the bass. John got the picture, the bass slipped out of my grasp and the free treble hook caught the top of my hand.

I still have the scars. We cut off the treble hook at the split ring and weighed the bass before releasing it. The weight of the bass and thrashing around caused the hooks to bury deeply into muscle and tendons.

Sometimes we get careless and accidents happen.

WRB

wisconsin heat reply :

ill tell you my favorite time being hooked! ok so i was shore fishing when i was about 12, and i had 2 crankbaits with me, a deep diver, and a shallow diver... i started with the deep diver, and my knot came undone, so i casted out my shallow diver and retrieved it. i preffered the deep diver so retied that one, and didnt want to stop fishing, so i hooked the SD on the leg of my shorts,it came off when i walked through some thick weeds, it took me 1/2 hour to realize it... so i walked the lake shore back and fourth looking for it...couldnt find it then my sister(my ride) decided it was time to go to "the other spot" on my way to the car... $H!T i lightly hooked myself in the leg, what was it? my Shallow Crankbait! ;D ;D ;D ... the best part was that later that day, i was fishing that shallow diver, i caught my first walleye! i was happy, but now i get P1$$ed evry time i catch a walleye, they get in the way of some good bass fishing! ;D

spropro reply :

Story#1 - I'm about 8 years old fishing Wye Mills Lake, easter shore of Maryland, with my dad and Grandad in the 60's. Hook my dad in the ear lobe with a big Mepps spinner. We drop him on shore and he heads to country doctors office. He approaches the receptionist and ask to see the doctor. She askes, What for ? A little suprised that she could'nt see the problem he replied, " I've got this fishing lure stuck in my ear !" She bust out laughing and says, "O goodness ! I thought that was an earing !

Story #2 - Doing an over-night canoe float on the Rappahanouck river, above Federicksburg, with my son, younger sister and her husband. My sister and her husband are not real experienced paddlers, so I put her in my boat to prevent prevent a marital disaster if she and her husband, Ryan, were to share a canoe. We have the canoes loaded with all the gear and are making our way down, and having a really good time. The fishing is easy and my sister is really getting into it and not paddling a whole lot which is fine. Anyhow, as most river runners know, some sets of rapids require you to put the rod down and focus on the paddling so as to not wind up with the canoe up side down and all year gear floating down river. As we are coming up to a good set of rapids I put the rod down and picked up the paddle. My sis has hooked a nice smallie and swings it to the back for me to take off just as we are approaching rapids. I attempt to un-hook quickly when the fish flops and buries a hook. No time to fix now because I have to pick up the paddle. So as we are ricocheting off of rock I'm trying to paddle with a lure in my hand with a fish hanging from the lure. My sister finds this quite funny and is having a good laugh even as the canoe turns sideways an we go over. I'm yelling from pain and yelling at her to grab the gear floating away. My son and Ryan had gone through the rapids first and were watching us, also laughing there heads off at the site of me thrashing around for paddles, rods, coolers, with a fish hanging from my hand. All turned out well and now hear the story told regularly at family gatherings ;D

J-B reply :

I was 14 and fishing with a friend at a local pond. My friend was casting a rapala. Well he decided to cast sideways along the bank and that nice lil rapala found its way right between my legs. Enough said , I will remember it for life and I always wear baggy pants or shorts now when fishing. :-/

tholmes reply :

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I was 14 and fishing with a friend at a local pond. My friend was casting a rapala. Well he decided to cast sideways along the bank and that nice lil rapala found its way right between my legs. Enough said , I will remember it for life and I always wear baggy pants or shorts now when fishing. :-/

We have a winner!!

Tom

L a r r y reply :

Been fishing since I was 8 - 9 and I am 40 now and have never been hooked. I've seen many people get hooked, one that stands out a girl got hooked in her eyelid...

trevor reply :

Last summer when I was working on my dads boat I had to get a customer's fish off. We fish in the ocean for seabass using what bass fisherman would call a drop shot rig. Except our's are weighted with up to a pound and we use 5 odd hooks on them. At the begging of the trip we always ask the customers to hold the sinkers for us when we take their fish off so that nobody gets hit with flying lead or gets an unwanted piercing (the boat is rocking). So this guy, unlike most, actually held his sinker. I got the fish off, and he decided he was done holding his 5 or 6 ounces of lead, I forget which, so he dropped them. Its lucky nobody got hurt.... oh no wait I DID. The hook came down and with the sinker pulling it down stuck in my elbow. But the best part was how the guy saw it happen and didn't say anyhting. Not a serious hooking by any means I just love how I'm standing there bleeding and the guy says nothing. ;D

Taylor Fishin 4 life reply :

I know this isnt me but when i was 13 i was fishing on a dock with my dog ,she was about 1 at the time. Anyway she grabbed my crankbait out of curiosity and hooked a face full of trebles. She hauled butt down the dock through the yard and as she just about made it to the house i ran out of line and it broke. Luckily i didnt have to do much digging cause as i walked up to her she had already ripped the hooks out.

Beastie Bass reply :

My wife and I were waking spinnerbaits for some REALLY active bass. She got a bite just as she was about to pull the lure from the water, SHE REALLY SET THE HOOK GOOD! ;D ;DThe spinnerbait was about 6 inches from my face when I remember thinking "This is gonna hurt." :'( The lead from the head busted me accoss the bridge of the nose, the hook went INSIDE my nostril and each one of the blades left its mark over and next to my eye!! Wear your glasses when fishin boys!

HitmanFO reply :

A few months ago I took a buddy and my two boys out fishing, just a quick Sunday afternoon trip. We launched in a reservoir and ran way up the river to a couple of small lakes. We get to the spot, I hand my boys their rods, I drop the trolling motor, and I hear my buddy screaming "Oh my god! Oh my god! I need help!" I turn and look and he has a trap going thru his right eye! His first cast went into the brush and he yanked it out; when the trap flew by his face, the hooks caught him. I left the boat drifting, I move my boys to the front of the boat, I have him sit down, and I start evaluating the damage.

What we thought was a hook through the eyeball turned out to be a hook through the lower eyelid, not touching the eye... in, out, and hooked into the eyebrow, holding his eye closed. We briefly discussed heading for the nearest ranger station, but were afraid the long ride back would cause more damage. I get the hook out of his eyebrow, and now the trap is dangling from his lower eyelid (in hindsight, that would have made a GREAT picture!). I start working it free, when one of my boys yells "watch out dad!" and my buddy YANKS his head around to see what they are talking about, nearly ripping off his eyelid! Turns out the boat was just drifting up on the bank... no big deal. We turn back to the business on hand and finally make the decision that it's time to cut. He happened to have a razor knife with him, so I start cutting, small, minute cuts, freeing the hook from his eyelid. There was suprisingly little blood... I pulled out my Army first aid kit and we got his eyelid cleaned up.

Now, this is a sign of a good fishing partner... or a stupid one... I ask if he wants to head back to the ramp and he says "No, it's not bleeding, let's just fish!"

After we got done shaking and the adrenaline rush subsided, we went on to have a great couple of hours of fishing, catching 25 bass or so, and my 7yr old boy caught his first two bass all by himself (cast, reeled, caught the bass, landed it)!

We laugh about it all the time now, and have renamed the lake "Hookeye Dan Cove"!

Oh, he went to his doctor the next day and got a tetanus shot... the doc asked how he got the trap out and Dan told him "my buddy cut it out with a knife". The doc said, "Well, he did a good job!" Now you can barely see a little scar on his eyelid.

I now keep a pair of pliers specifically for cutting hooks in the boat... and we troll over to where we're hung up now, instead of yanking on it!

Good times!

bigfruits reply :

i dont know how i've never seriously hooked myself. probably because i tend to stay away from crankbaits....

it was the very first day my father let my brother and i use real fishing hooks without supervision. we were using bent sewing pins before that but could never get a hook-up.

i was standing on the shore behind a friend making a long cast. i wonder what he was thinking when the bait did not fly over him and out over the water as he made the overhead cast.

the eagle claw bait hook was buried in my cheek almost to the line and a piece of an earth worm was still attached.

the park staff called an ambulance. emergency room doctor gave me a local anesthetic shot and pulled the hook out. it did not come out easy but the i remember that the worst pain of the whole ordeal was from the shot.

CanalStalkin reply :

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I know this isnt me but when i was 13 i was fishing on a dock with my dog ,she was about 1 at the time. Anyway she grabbed my crankbait out of curiosity and hooked a face full of trebles. She hauled butt down the dock through the yard and as she just about made it to the house i ran out of line and it broke. Luckily i didnt have to do much digging cause as i walked up to her she had already ripped the hooks out.

My dog got hooked too. sebile swimmer up his nose!

Red Bear reply :

i've never been severely hooked, luckily. the most is just a small poke/stab from the point of a hook, but never past the barb. and i always try to pay attention to whats going on around me as far as myself or someone else making a cast. also when fishing top water im sure to miss some hooksets, so i always try to be ready to dodge out of the way when a frog or whatever comes flying back at my head 100mph.

zerofivenismo reply :

Only been hooked once. Hooked my back while casting a spoon. Good thing it was only one prong of the treble. Bad thing was I was fishing in the middle of the outlet below the dam. Moments after hooking myself, sirens went off, so I had to retreat back to the banks with myself being foul hooked, before the gates were opened. Forgot my tackle bag at home, so I had to beg the other fishermen to borrow their pliers and help removing the hook. Luckily there was a guy that was nice enough to remove the hook.

brnzebckhuntr reply :

My worst time came from the lip busting of a x rap when i went to test my knot. I buried it deep in my thumb. I tried pulling it out myself but could quite do it. Luckily my mother was home i held my hand down and i had here pull the hook out with my leatherman. It was surprising that no real pain or blood come from that deal.

IwillChooseFreeWill reply :

other than occasional surface hooks that were nothing more than oversized paper cuts, never hook myself bad that I ever remember

Red reply :

Only one time past the barb for me. I was fishing a small pond with a buddy. I had a big pop R tied on. The pond had about 6-8 feet of thick scum/weeds around the shoreline, so when my bait got close to it I would flip up and over. Well one time it went over my head and stuck in the tall grass behind me. Instead of taking three or four steps back and freeing it, I didn't even turn around I just started yanking on it. Finally it came free and lodged into the back of my shoulder (sleeveless shirt). Got the line cut and couldn't see it, buddy said it was bad then kept fishing. I left and went to see my mom at work, walking through the elementary school with a bait hanging from my shoulder. She sent me to the doctors office. He tried to back it out, too deep, tried to push it through, to deep, so he ended up having to cut it out. The worst part of it all for me was the navicane shot.

Cliff

Fish Man reply :

Two years ago while i was fishing with my unlce i hooked myself in the back of the head. It pinned my hat to my head and it needed to be cut off. As for the lure we tugged on it for a couple good hours with no results and wound up in the ER. Whole thing was becasue i leaft to much slack line and when i went to cast it got me good, thought my uncle had smacked me for a moment before i relaized what had happened. got a good laugh out of that if i come across the photos i'll post them on here

Led Blimp reply :

If you haven't hooked yourself you don't fish enough. My worst came on the St. Regis River in the Adirondacks. A tiny small mouth hit my chug-bug while fishing in my kayak. About 20 feet from the boat a 30" pike devoured the small mouth and my lure. Got him to the kayak, line way too tight. Chickened out from grabbing the fish with the really nasty teeth so I grabbed my line above the lure and the pike gave his last fight right then and spit the hook catapulting it into the index finger of my left hand burying it well past the barb. Be darned if I could get it out. My chug-bug now hangs in the glass showcase in the hallway of the Saranac Lake, NY Hospital Emergency room with more then 1,000 other lures that they have dug out of fishermen over the years.

Until later,

Led Blimp

basspro215 reply :

I was fishing a local creek on opening day of trout season,i hooked up with a good size sucker and all of a sudden the hook flew out of the fish some how caught me right on top of the head and as the hook stopped my weight kept going sinking it in well past the barb so i cut it off and kept fishing for a while the guy on the creek thought i was crazy but later i got to my mom house and she pulled it out with a pair of needle nose

Grey Wolf reply :

I hooked two fingers with one treble hook , needless to say I had to go to the ER for that one.

basser89 reply :

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I hooked two fingers with one treble hook , needless to say I had to go to the ER for that one.

I THINK I can beat that......

September 4, 2004. Decided to head out musky fishing (from shore) that morning. I hit the one area that had been really hot! I started out throwing a top water and wasn't having much luck. All of a sudden, I see a familiar boil! So I start fan casting around that spot. BANG! I hook up with this musky and after a decent battle, I land a decent musky! Here comes the fun! I grab my pair of standard sized pliers to remove the rear treble hook from the ski. Just as I barely touch the hook, the musky thrashes, driving the front treble hook into my index and middle fingers on my right hand WELL past the barbs on those huge hooks while still attached to the fish! Did I mention I'm right handed? LOL! So there I sat with a knee on top of the musky and my free hand on the grip to keep it from shaking until someone came by (which was about 20 minutes or so after this all happened). The angler unscrewed the hook from the bait since the cutter I had would not cut that huge hook. I ended up at the ER as well. Needless to say, that musky (all 45 inches of it) was not CPR'd and ended up in the frying pan! BIG TIME rookie mistake that "shouldn't" happen again now that I am properly equipped with the right tools for the job. :-[

jiggerpole reply :

Ok, way back when my son was about two or three I had him bream fishing from the bank. He slipped in the water and when I jumped in to get him my wife grabbed the pole and did a perfect hook set right in the end of my nose. With tears in my eyes I pulled it out with a pair of pliers. It stung, but Ive been hurt much worse. But never have I had sooo many tears. My eyes would not stop watering.

BassThumb reply :

I had a smallie throw a large Husky Jerk back at me and it hooked me in the upper earlobe with the middle of 3 treble hooks. It adds a whole new dimension to hook removal when you're trying to remove a treble hook that you cannot see, especially when there is another treble hook dangling next to your eye.

I didn't have a pliers with a side-cutter either, or else I would have removed the hook next to my eye. I was wading in the river as a kid and only carried a foreceps. I ended up luckily just yanking it out and continuing to fish because I had trekked 45 minutes and had just begun to fish. It left a little tear in the earlobe and a scar to remind me to always wear sunglasses when bass fishing! ;D

bassman31783 reply :

Wow there's a lot of good stories on here. Ouch.

I've personally never hooked "myself" too bad. (Knock on wood) However when I was a kid, about 4 or 5, I walked behind my dad when he was casting a spinnerbait & got it through my bottom lip. Still have a little scare to prove it. Don't really remember it but I'm sure I cried like crazy.

My dad on the other hand has been hooked pretty bad before. We were stripper fishing & he landed a pretty nice one about 9-10lbs. When he reached down to unhook the pencil popper it flopped off the boat. Well my dad attempted to catch it only to get one of the treble hooks through the base of his thumb nail & out the other side. The worst part was that the fish was still attached flopping around, while hanging from his thumb nail, trying to get loose. Once he pulled the fish back on the boat & got it off he was white as a ghost. That was the end of that fishing day, & off to the hospital to get it removed.

KC Bass Fanatic reply :

Truman Reservoir in a local club tournament. I hung a fat free shad in an overhanging tree limb. Motored over to get it out. I had to pull the limb down with one hand and attempt to untangle the lure with the other. Long story short the limb slipped from my hand, driving the treble into the fat part of my palm. Because of the part of my hand it was buried in, I couldn't push the barb through and cut it off. I probably should have went to the emergency room but I had 5 fat fish in the livewell and weigh in was only about an hour away. I carry some antiseptic spray with some sort of powerful numbing agent in it (I highly recommend carrying this in your boat). Sprayed in on, and yanked it out with needle nose. Wrapped a clean rag around it and kept fishing. I placed 2nd in the tournament and my hand was sore for a week.

mrbassky reply :

Well this one time I really needed some money. And this old sugar mamma :-*came up and started talking to me....wait sorry wrong kind of hooking. ;D

Clark Stewart reply :

Caught a nice tree bass of the pine persuasion with the biggest dang zara spook they make (three treble mama) Lure comes loose and lands ever so elegantly in my right forearm. All three hooks, all three trebles for a total of 9 puncture wounds. I just clipped the line and kept fishing. It was so deep it was past the nerves! Thank God my buddy's dad knew the line around the treble trick. I didn't feel a thing.

jig reply :

about 25 yrs ago when i was in my late teens i got a popper w treble hook stuck in a tree at the long end of the cast.To make a long story short I made the rookie mistake of pulling the boat to the lure w my rod.I wasnt looking when popper sprung loose about 30 ft away and i looked up in time to catch it right in the corner of my mouth.Most embarrassing trip to hospital ever !

bassmajor reply :

Haha. I was just watching City Limits Fishing with Ike and he hooked one of the cameramen in the back of the head with a spinnerbait that he was casting. Good thing that he was ok. I hope that guy got hazard pay!

tnbassfisher reply :

I was 7 or 8 years old.

I was fishing off of a dock early one morning with my dad. I took my rod back and somehow when I came forward to make the cast caught myself in the back of the head. I spent the rest of the morning in the ER waiting on a maintenance man to bring the doctor a pair of wire cutters.

NOVA Angler reply :

Hooked myself twice:

First - I was strapping my rod to the racks on top of my SUV and pulled my hand away. The trailer hook of my spinnerbait caught my pinky and went to the bone. My friend was driving me to the Emergency Room and got very sick and almost passed out. We had to pull over and I had to drive the rest of the way. The trailer hook was pretty strong and they couldn't cut it with the nail head cutters they had in the Emergency Room so they had to call maintenace to bring bolt cutters. The two doctors argued over who got to cut it out. The most painful part was them numbing my finger before they pushed the hook through my skin to cut the barb off. Good thing my buddy wasn't back there for that.

The second time I was fishing with one of those worm hooks that is double barbed meaning it has the barb on the end of the hook where it catches the fish, but it also has another barb near the eye of the hook (like this http://www.***.com/Z_Man_Weighted_Trigger_Hook_3_Pack/descpage-ZMWTRHK.html) I caught a bass around 2lbs and while trying to take it off the hook it shook loose and the barb near the eye of the hook went through the webbing between my thumb and pointer finger. The fish flopping around hanging from my hand didn't feel good. Trust me, it will bring you to your knees very quick. After I got the fish off my friend had the bright idea of trying to cut the hook out with hedge clippers (not the anvil type)...The fish flopping around on the hook was nothing compared to this. When he slammed them closed, the hook twisted around and tore the skin a bit. Unfortunately it wasn't enough for me to pull the hook back through. d**n that hurt. I know it was a bad idea to begin with, but the fishing was good and we didn't want to leave. Well we ended up leaving anyway and going back to my Grandparents house. I got my grandfathers dremel tool out and was about to cut the hook off when he walked in. He freaked out and made me go to the hospital. At least they didn't have to numb it this time.

cart7t reply :

Caught a small 1 1/2 lber on a Rogue.

Lipped the fish. It only had the middle treble hooking it by the outside of mouth. The fish was jumpy and immediately imbedded the front treble into my right hand that was holding the fish.

Quickly attempted to undo the fish with my left hand when Mr. Jumpy flopped again..... this time imbedding the back trebles into my left hand...

uh oh........

thank god I was fishing with a partner. Had that happened when I was fishing alone I'm not sure what I would've done.

jig reply :

cart , thats funny, I had simuler experience with a bigger rogue w a pickeral attached.Those triple grip hooks r no fun

muskiebassfisher reply :

i've seen someone set the hook so hard that it drove a crankbait out of the water and straight to someones face. he managed to get all 3 treble hooks imbedded on his tongue and lips. he couldn't open his mouth and the amount of blood was bordering on horror. a 2 hr drive later and 15mins of surgery managed to get all the hooks out.

bass syco reply :

ok it not a hooking but...

Mistake was having the canoe still on the car so the liftback was not open all the way. Carrying a 55lb battery and and walking fast I hit the liftback with my head received a deep scalp laceration.

Seems I became a legend at the local night time care center because the flap of skin revealed my skull bone. When I took my kid in 9 months later the staff still remembered me. :-?

It took 11 metal staples to close the wound. ouch.

Worse part was when they cleaned it with a water pick (BEFORE) they numbed it. YIIIIIKES.

Kanbass reply :

Early one foggy morning I was hip deep in my local bassing hole fishing a popper, having some luck and enjoying a beautiful morning. I brought in a nice 3 lber and just as I reached down to lip him he tossed his head and buried a treble in my middle finger. So i'm standing there with a three lber flopping wildly from the end of my finger and my first reaction is to put him down. I'm wading, so now he's in his element,you get the picture. Well, I finally get a hold of him and I'm standing there with the fish in one hand and my rod under my arm and the other hand hooked to the popper.

Great ,now what? I manage to get the fish gripped in the hand with the popper in it, but thats also the hip my pliers are on. I probably looked like some kinda nut tryin to get those pliers out of the sheath with my off hand but eventually i got em. Once the fish was off the hook things started looking a bit better although I still had a treble buried to the bend in my finger. I wasn't too hip on the idea of pushing it through, and it really wasn't hurting much so I opted to pull it straight out, it is really amazing how tenacious a fish hook can be. I can really relate to the fish now, you know when you really gotta twist and pry and pull to get a hook out once in awhile? The amazing thing after all that, it hardly bled more than a few drops and quit hurting right away. So ,after I stopped shaking, I went back to popping and had an enjoyable morning.

Alls well that ends well

IntroC reply :

I have had plenty of hooks stuck in my hand past the barb. Usaully happens at least once a year. Twice this last year. I guess I don't see the point in pushing the barb back trough. Sounds like a lot of extra pain. I just take a pliers and give it a quick hard jerk and keep fishing. Make sure you have a current tetanus shot and all is well. Really isn't that big of a deal.

I do some musky fishing and when it comes to that I am a little more careful and have been fortunate enough to have never had one of those hooks stuck past the barb. I'd imagine striper hooks are also of the larger variety.

airborne_angler reply :

I went to a lake with my 10' john boat for the first time a few years ago. Had all my rods rigged and was pulling the boat out of the back of my truck. While I was in the boat making things ready,somehow I got a rattletrap stuck in my leg,below the calf muscle.

I had just driven an hour to the lake and decided while I was there at the lake I may as well make the best of things. I clipped the line and left the lure hanging from my leg the whole trip.

Was sorta funny when I would cast or moved that leg,I made a rattling sound.

Got home and used the hook removal trick and popped the hook right out . No blood,just a little discomfort.

DWG1984 reply :

I took a buddy of mine and his fiance fishing all was well, until I stood up to make a cast. Simultaniuosly with me his fiance was on her backswing a 4/0 lucky strike weighted hook ended up in my neck. We pulled the worm off, cut the line and proceeded to try to cut the hook, apparently my pliers were junk. We ended up at the local fire station, the emt guys there had no idea what to do they tried to take a scalple to it and finally I told them to push it through and cut the barb off. The funny thing is I was fine except for a little squirming, my buddy on the other hand ( who happens to be a Mohawk having Harley riding kind of bad *** guy) is white as a bed sheet sweating and hiding his eyes. I love giving him a hard time about that. I still have two little scars on my neck it looks like I got bit by a vampire.

WVBassHunter reply :

Mine happened about 8 years ago...not fishing....but actually running from a WV Black Bear.

We went on a family trip with my parents to a state park when walking to meet my dad in the parking lot about 10:30pm my brother yelled there was a bear behind me and literally it was 2ft behind me! So i took off and dove in the bed of his Silverado landing my my pole with Rapala minnow running right into my left wrist!!! Well I got it out...after an hour of fun! LOL

Good times though!!!!

jettech reply :

I didn't do it but I saw my best friend hook another guy in his ear. with a treble hook from a crank bait. d**n near pulled it through...... Thank god drinking kills the pain.

Northern Strain reply :

First time it happened it was over the summer. I was throwing a x-calibur, silver lipless crank bait. catching a bunch of short fish, hadn't been out long and was sure I was going to just slam them. I hook a short smallmouth, and when i say short I mean short. I couldn't get my thumb in it's mouth cuz it was full of trebbles. so i grab onto the line just above the lure. The fish decides to shake and the next thing i know it feels like i just got a shot from a doctor. I closed my eyes, hadn't evern seen the damage, but knew what had happened. I look down to see a bass on the back hooks and my thumb on the front set. I guess the bass caught me. any way, I cut the line get the little bass off, give him a kiss, and I was pretty mad, however this bass would be memorable, so I let him go hoping to get a rematch if he got to 5 #'s. I tried to get the hook out but it hurt so bad. I ended up going to imediate care and got some novicane, and a doctor to remove it.

RobbyZ5001 reply :

I just hooked myself in the face today... two hooks IN THE FACE. My buddy tore them both out... the line trick is for women.

fishinfewl reply :

I have holes in a lot of my jeans because of treble hooks.

owl reply :

I have neglected to read this thread several times cause I couldn't remember ,It had been many years.

Karma gave me a refresher . I caught a nice sow and got fired up about it. I hung the chatter bait on a limb . I jerked the fool out of to free it. It flew back and stabbed me in the arm. Took me an hour after I sheared the hook to push it through

Carrington reply :

just yesterday i went to set the hook on a fish when my line was very close to the shore and the fish hadnt swallowed the hook yet, the hook came flying out and hit about 1 cm below my sunglasses directly below my right eye. i wasnt sure how to pull it out since ive never hooked myself so i ripped and then it hurt horrible bad. still hurts now.

BrianSnat reply :

I was doing some evening bassing and was supposed to meet a friend. He said he'd call me when he arrived and I'd go to shore to pick him up. I had just tied a popper on and was holding the lure in my hand with with the rod bowed when my cell phone rang. The sound startled me a bit and the lure slipped from my hand flinging it into the forefinger of my other hand.

One look at it and I knew it wasn't good. It was buried deep. I went to the dock and picked up my buddy and he gets into the boat and says "How ya doing?" "Well I was doing good until a few minutes ago" I replied and showed him my predicament.

He took one look at it and said "You should go to the ER" "Nah, let's fish" I said, so we did. The lure was buried in my left hand so casting wasn't an issue, but retrieving was a bit of a pain.

I got home and my wife was just going to bed and said hello and I kind of hid my hand behind my back so she wouldn't see it and panic.

I went into the bathroom with a pair of pliers to see if I could push the hook all the way through and cut the barb so I could pull it out. No deal. The angle of the hook wouldn't let me do that.

By this time it was 1 am and no way was I going to wake the wife up to go to the ER, but the question was how was I going to sleep with a popper with 2 treble hooks hanging out of my finger.

I grabbed some duct tape and taped the lure to my finger so it didn't flop around while I was sleeping.

First thing next morning I went to the ER and had it removed. Doctor said he got a hook in the hand nearly every week during fishing season.

carrothead reply :

I've never hooked myself...but it gets pretty crowded in a 14 foot jon boat with 4 people. I, of course, had to sit on the middle seat with my little cousin. I rared back with my baitcaster to throw my fluke... and hooked my uncle right in the ear. I thought it was funny, and it wasn't bad at all. My uncle seemed to think differently. I am now limited to spinning tackle in these situations. ;D

Dave P reply :

When I was a teenager, I was bank fishing a pond with a hula popper. I was trying to keep it from getting hung in the moss so I gave it a nice jerk. It sailed right over the moss and right into the underside of my right wrist...Grandpa pushed it on through and cut the barb off. I've been hooked without getting barbed more times than I can count by friggin' trebles...

culprit71 reply :

;D ;D ;D

Quite a story!

Been there, with too close calls with flying rattl-traps....can't be too careful!!!

fishfordollars reply :

Not sure if it's the worst, but i tail hooked a catfish last Saturday morning. No one around. Riped it out of my index finger with a pair of needle nose pliers. Rammed my hand down in the cooler to numb it before I did it though.

Worst part was trying to push the meat back in the finger. It ain't no fun.

Senkoman12 reply :

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Honestly I have yet to do it, I probably have cut my hand more on line or with my knife then anything else.

same here but god i get them line cuts all the time and they suck to me about 10 times worse than a paper cut

CJ reply :

I had a treble hook on a 200 series Bandit go through my thumb and come out under my thumbnail while trying to unhook a small bass. I had to push the hook on through the nail to be able to cut off the barb so I could back it out. It hurt.

My buddy had the worst one though during a big tournament. He got hooked in the hand while try to unhook a 3 lber on a big crankbait. Then when he reached down with the other hand to try and get the bass off, the fish jumped again and hooked the other hand. He was handcuffed with the fish still on there too. They had to kill the fish and cut it off. Then his co-angler had to drive them back in so he could go to the E.R.

NateFollmer reply :

I never hooked myself but I always cut my fingers when I'm pulling knots tight (stupid line is like a knife and I always think "I won't pull as hard next time..." but I do anyway).

I have been hooked by other people though. Just last month I was on the river and I bent down to move a wire coming off the trolling motor. As soon as I stood up I felt a hard smack and then my head get jerked to the side. My buddy was casting an old school metal rapala plug (about 5 inches long) and it hit me right in the back of the head and the hooks went right into the top of my head. The actual smack of that lure hurt worse than the hooks.

Heads tend to bleed a lot.... :D

Nebraska Bassin reply :

So far, I haven't put a hook in myself past the barb, but I've watched my dad and brother do it. I was fishing a farm pond with my brother about 15 years ago, and he snagged a Zara Spook in the reeds. He got the lure unsnagged from the reeds, but snagged himself right below the eye doing it. I doubt that he had much fun driving 40 miles to the nearest hospital with that Spook hanging from his face.

A few years later we were pike fishing at a local lake, and I caught about a 10 pounder on a Rat-L-Trap. Since I wasn't experienced with catching and unhooking pike yet, I gave the fish to my dad to let him unhook the fish. The pike was about as cooperative as the average pike is, and in the process of flopping around, stuck the front treble of the Rat-L-Trap in his thumb. Luckily the fish freed itself at the same time, but it still put an end to dad's day of fishing.

SirSnookalot reply :

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I never hooked myself but I always cut my fingers when I'm pulling knots tight (stupid line is like a knife and I always think "I won't pull as hard next time..." but I do anyway).
I often wear a band aid on my finger, reduces cuts when tying braid

NateFollmer reply :

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I often wear a band aid on my finger, reduces cuts when tying braid

Yeah I mean to do that but I always forget to throw them in the tackle box I found using a small stick against your finger helps too haha

zbigbadaaron reply :

Well I didn't get hooked past the barb but it was close but i had this hook in my finger while reaching over under a rail and somehow it jabbed me so i had a rod bent pretty good putting pressure on the hook and I had the hook in my finger for like 5 minutes before someone came too help me a few years ago.

urp reply :

After 60 fishing years I've had several unwanted hook contacts: I will related two.

While fishing a series of ponds in Ct. which were water supply ponds, fishing verboten and so fishing at night, I jerked a Jitterbug off a lilly pad and the hook went right thru my eyelid. Very close to being a very serious problem. An easy fix, however, by cutting the point and barb off the hook.

Trout fishing for Redbands(a sub-species of Rainbow) in desert Eastern Oregon, I buried the hook of a Mepps Spinner down to the shank square in the middle of my chin. I needed medical help and the closest was a clinic an hour and a half away. Keep in mind I had been camping for a week and was filthy and also had a beard. When I walked into the clinic they asked me what I wanted and I said, "well, I've got this lure in my chin". They said, "well, you never know these days. It might be a decoration."

To you trout fisherman, those Redband get up to 20" in a little stream you can step across.

deaknh03 reply :

I have been fishing for over 25 years and have been hooked one time. I was in the back of the canoe with my brother fishing in the front, and I landed a 2lb largemouth. I went to lip him and he flipped and somehow the heddon torpedo became hooked in the back of my right hand, trebles under the tendons,other trebles still in his mouth. After a quick yel, my brother made his way to the back of the canoe and helped me unhook the fish, then proceeded to try and cut the hooks out, and when that didnt work he tried to slice my skin open to free the hooks.needless to say we ended up at the hospital where it took the doctor 20 minutes to dig them out.

tysondawglee reply :

My Dad hooked me real good with a rattle trap in the back of the neck..och!!

jwluresme reply :

Mine happended recently over the Memorial Day holiday. Went to our vacation place near Hot Springs. We went over to Lake Hamilton to shore fish near the hatchery there. Walked around the cove there fishing for about an hour and didn't catch anything. I had a lipless crankbait tied on. I went back to the spot I started at near our car, and made a few more casts. Finally, something hit the lure. I reeled in what I believe was a yellow bass (it had teeth, so not sure of that). Since lipping it wasn't good due to the teeth, I grabbed it by the body and began to get the hook out. The fish was thrashing about a bit making the hook removal difficult. In fact in one of it's moves, the rear treble got stuck into the fish's side. Great! My wife ran to the car to get the camera to take a pic of the fish I caught. ;D

While she was getting that, the fish jerked again and freed itself of the lure, but unfortunately buried one of the barbs on the treble into the pad of my left thumb. It was in a good bit past the barb. I asked my wife to get my needle nose pliers so I could attempt to extract the hook from my thumb. This was my first time doing this, and after pulling on it realized it was not going to come back out the way it went in very easily. My wife is a neo-natal nurse, but I don't think she was too excited about trying to help me get the hook out of my thumb!

I was sweating, both from the heat of the day, as well as the pain and tension in the situation. After 5 minutes or so of debating what to do, a man and his wife that had been there by the lake asked if he could help. He informed us that he was an x-ray tech at the hospital, and knew that what they would do at the emergency room would be to push the hook the rest of the way through, then cut the barb off. He also said he had fished his whole life, and had to do that to himself once before. My wife gave him permission to take care of the situation!!

He got hold of my pliers, asked if I was ready (heck no!), and then bore down and pushed the hook back through the pad of my thumb. It did hurt a good bit, albeit briefly. He cut the barb and slipped the hook back the other way and out of my thumb. I went to the restroom in the building there near the boat launch ramp and washed it very well with soap and water. We left and went back to our place and put peroxide and antibiotic ointment on it. By the next day, it really didn't even hurt very much.

God puts people in the right place at the right time. I was blessed and grateful to the man (David I think his name was) for being there and knowing what needed to be done. I hope this is my first and only experience with having a hook in any part of my body!

Jim

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