injurys 2024

jkart reply :

I would like to know if any one has had any injurys when fishing or boating.

As for me I sliped off my trailer trying to get the boat on at a bad boat ramp.

I got a big cut on my left hand,broke left wrist,sprained left ankle, black and blue from left butt cheek to left sholder (landed on trailer). Thank god i'm right handed. I still don't how I didn't hit my head on the bow stop.

Thanks for reading

Jeff

bassnleo reply :

I bang my head off the bow every time I loose a fish during a tournament....that count?

z115491 reply :

Nothing but a few hooks goin through my hand. Thats always fun!

jkart reply :

Bassnleo

That's funny I under stand that. I have done the same thing now and then

Bass Smacker reply :

My Dad dislocated his left knee lanching his old boat. Out from work for 3 months

BUt he bought a new boat wile he was out

FishinDaddy reply :

Last spring i hooked a 4lb alligator gar on a rapala, my favorite lure and when I could not shake him off I reached for the pliers. Next thing I know he's in the boat with me, my hand is bleeding like a stuck pig, I have a set of trebles hooked into the cargo pocket of my shorts and the other set still in the gar. Having that many teeth that close to several rather important parts of my anatomy, well lets just say I was more than concerned.....lets recap....in my left hand are my 10" longnose pliers, now completely covered in blood, in the pliers is a very upset gar, in the gars mouth is a rapala, and oh yea the other set of trebles in my shorts...anyway five minutes later there is a hole in my shorts, the gar is back in the lake, a bandaid on my hand and the only real damage is the blood stains in the carpet.

bocabasser reply :

during a tourny in the glades, i set the hook on a fish right next to the boat only to have the weight come flying back at me. it shattered my costas and a piece of glass was imbedded in my eye. the TD let us weigh in early and i was rushed to the hospital to have emergency surgery on my right eye. good news though--finished 4th and won $600 and costa sent me a brand new pair of glasses. i am still fighting with my insurance over the ambulance ride that cost me $750 for a 2 mile ride.

Jimzee reply :

The wife had a drop shot sinker (metal part on top) go completely through her top lip (stitches) after it came loose from a snag. The following week, I had to get a tiny torpedo surgically removed from the first joint in my left thumb. Both of us ended up with tetanus shots that week. Crazy!!!

cajun1977. reply :

ive had fish break my heart a couple of times...does that count :'(

BassChaser57 reply :

This story is not for the faint of heart.

A good friend of mine was walking on the tounge of the trailer, got on his boat, then when he tried to step off the boat onto the upright that holds the winch, he slipped and impailed the winch pipe into his "man parts." He was so stuck with this pipe stuck into him that 911 was called and they had a terrible time removing him from the pipe to get him to the hospital. He ws really messed up and fianally found a Doctor in L.A. that would even try to make his parts functional again. It took several years to get all the work done but he claims all parts work normally. It makes me hurt just to tell the story.

He was a pilot and I flew with him several years and he recently retired.

cart7t reply :

Broke my foot knee boarding once. Hit a big wake the wrong way, came out of the kneeboard, flipped over frontwards and my foot rapped the board pretty hard coming down.

I proceeded to spend the rest of the afternoon on a PWC running around. My foot swelled up like a football. When I got back to the ramp and got off the waverunner I nearly fell over. I had to be helped to the car and then to the hospital.

That's about it other than some cuts, scraps and bruises.

Bassnajr reply :

Hey all...

Since we're sharing..

I was in my 10' Bassraider boat with my buddy. He has a Power worm on a very Large worm hook. He went to cast, and snagged my left ear...right in the cartlidge!!!! After 10 long minutes of him screwing around, I had to push the hook in and then get it out. It was freaky and it HURT!!!!

I fish with ear muffs when I am with him now!!! ;D

bassinajr

Fish Man reply :

Here is my story i posted way earlier in the year.I was fishing with my uncle last winter, it was cold and windy. I was using a 5/8 ounce BPS rattle trap lure and i left to much slack line when i went to cast.I felt somthing hit my head as tho i had been punched or smacked to the back of my head and i reached back to realize my lure had pinned my hat onto my head. lol, we tryed to pull it out at my uncles house for about an hour and a half before my aunt took me to the hospital emergency room

P.S. the funny thing about it is that my parents were outta town and had just walked into their hotel room when they got the call, and that that has been one of my most producing baits since then ;D

http://www.bassresource.com/bass_fishing_forums/YaBB.pl?num=1174516642

fourbizz reply :

I recently had my left finger nearly amputated by a boat/jack incident, but that was at home not the lake.

Have hooked myself pretty bad (more than one hook past the barb at the same time) 3 times.

My left shoulder has some sort of rotator cuff problem that never goes away, presumably from hucking big baits as hard as I can all the time.

By far the most painful one was about six months ago. I was night fishing with a 1oz jig. I casted, heard a splash, and I swear i felt a bite. I swung as hard as I could, but there was no resistance, i think the jig must have been sitting in an inch of water. It flew back sooooo freaking fast and hit me square in the kneecap. It hurt so bad, I swear I almost passed out. I now believe that the kneecap really is the most painful place to be shot. God that hurt!

Jimzee reply :

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I recently had my left finger nearly amputated by a boat/jack incident, but that was at home not the lake.
Have hooked myself pretty bad (more than one hook past the barb at the same time) 3 times.

My left shoulder has some sort of rotator cuff problem that never goes away, presumably from hucking big baits as hard as I can all the time.

By far the most painful one was about six months ago. I was night fishing with a 1oz jig. I casted, heard a splash, and I swear i felt a bite. I swung as hard as I could, but there was no resistance, i think the jig must have been sitting in an inch of water. It flew back sooooo freaking fast and hit me square in the kneecap. It hurt so bad, I swear I almost passed out. I now believe that the kneecap really is the most painful place to be shot. God that hurt!

I feel your pain on the kneecap thing. I took a shot to the knee with a fastball in highschool and it made me so sick from the pain that I puked.

Fishin-Psyantist reply :

Ive had treble hooks in two of my fingers over a lifetime. In both instances I was trying to remove a lure from the fishes mouth when all of the sudden he starts jerkin and flapin like crazy before i can get my hand out of the way. "Ahh, I dont need them needle nose pliers, he's not hooked that good" will get you hooked every time.

grimlin reply :

Only once when i was 10,casting a spincast zebco reel only to stop in midair and fly back at me.Got me in the arm.

I've been lucky since then,because i yank my lures out of trees and bushes for it to come flying back at me.Hasn't struck me yet. *knocks on wood*

Sam reply :

1. Had to have treble hook surgicially removed from finger.

2. Had real bad sunburn/windburn on face.

3. Fell off side of boat in driveway. Bruised and embarassed but not one saw me. Just a few minor bruises.

4. Lost balance in boat and fell onto deck. Hurt side and shoulder. Did the fall deliberately so I would not fall out of the boat.

5. Scraped and cut fingers and hands working on boat.

6. Tore rotator cuff by pulling on trailer to move boat in yard. This was by far the dumbest thing I have done with the boat, so far.

Bassin_Fin@tic reply :

I been lucky so far as to not have to go through anything like some of these stories.

One recent one though:

Was squirrell hunting one day with a rattle trap and had a caught in a dead branch about 40 ft away.I was getting pretty ticked because that was the only one of that color I had with me and was catching fish prior.So I yanked and yanked harder.I have pretty fast reaction time,and have dodged a lot of lures in my day,but this thing had the velocity to rival the speed of sound when it came out.I was not wearing a shirt and it hit me flat in the middle of the chest and left a perfect size black and blue diamond shape pattern.Four of the hooks stuck me but not past the barb.The slap was so loud it was almost like smacking an oar flat on the water.

Avalonjohn44 reply :

I ripped open my scalp when I did an overhead cast with too much line out. It bled for a half hour, and my T Shirt was stained down to the middle of my back. Every time I washed my hair for the next couple of weeks, I reopened the scab and bled for a while. It sucked.

luckyinkentucky reply :

I keep seeing these "falling off trailer" stories. Get some Teva River Sandals. You won't have that problem anymore. I have never slipped off my trailer wearing these, and I swear by them. They stick to slippery, moss covered rocks for God's sake. I think they can handle slick painted metal.

Low_Budget_Hooker reply :

Dirk gave me a couple whoopings this summer, I'm talking like 15-2, 14-4,....real spankings. I would have to claim an injury,....my feelings were hurt,lol

I've seen a couple of good ones offshore. The worst was when a team of guys were leadering a blue shark. Pulling the line in by hand (leadering) they created a few coils on the floor. The angler stepped into one and then the shark got loose from the leaderman on the side of the boat (bad wrap). The coil tightened around the ankle of the angler, slicing clear to the bone, ligaments and all, in a complete 360 around the ankle. He was airlifted and the rumor has it that he will never use the ankle again (hobbled)

Another incident on the BXRL tour, a spearfish launched into the boat, impaling the female angler through the breast. The spilled silicone supposedly created a clotting scenario, subsequently saving her life.

Another guy took the bill straight through the calf muscle. No fun.

jwo1124 reply :

Luckily I, or anyone I have enver fished with has ever gotten injured while fishing, but I have came close one time. I was fishing with my younger brother out of my 12' boat, and since he is not really tha tmuch of an angler, more of a tag along when i go fishing, we was mindlessly casting and on one of the casts we hooked into the hood of my sweat shirt that I had up over my head becasue it was windy that day. Thank god I had that hood up because if not, I could have had a husky jerk stuck into my cheek.

By the way, those are some horror stories some of you have told. I hope I never have to get injured while fishing...I mean how do you make that sound cool?

Grandpa reply :

After coming off the lake I decided to throw a Texas rig around the other nearby docked pontoons. Walking down the dock I slipped and fell in to the water cracked my head on the dock pole. As I was sliding down between the dock and the pontoon I found myself trapped under water, I was on top of my left arm and while trying to move the right found that it had a 4/O hook in the thumb that was limiting my mobility, of course I was using braid. Not really wanting to die in 3 feet of water I pulled the hook out of my hand, hurt more later than it did then, then reached up and grabbed hold of the bottom of the pontoon, which unfortunately was VERY sharp, and pulled myself out.

The SHARP part of the pontoon I had grabbed cut my little finger to the bone around most of the finger. Then I had to pack up my stuff, wrap an old rag around the bleeding finger and go home to face the wife.

Took 14 stitches, physical therapy and a whole bunch of shots and the finger really does not work right yet but at least I will live to fish again.

Low_Budget_Hooker reply :

Forgot to add the obvious. Been hooked 4 times (deep enough to be an issue, in reality, been hooked many more times than that,.....we ALL had to learn crankbaits at some point,lol) but only 1 time required a trip off the water to the hospital. The hooks from a 1 oz rattle trap, yup, 1 oz, were embedded in the top of my head. The newly replaced Gammy hit bone and dug in, could not be removed on board. (made for a kick azz xray though,lol)

I bet Fluke has seen many of these xray at work,lol

guest reply :

Variuos hooks in my hands, head and the Infamous one at the Fork Trip. The front seat came disloged from its pedatal on our lovely rental, then it hit me square in the chest and when it dropped it stuck two of the four trebels of a Rapala #11 in my thigh. Russ and Brent were disaponited they didn't get it for the video.Geez!

Low_Budget_Hooker reply :

;D That memory will never get old,lol

You should have your own show,..."Fishing with Brooklyn" ;D ;D 8-)

Bassnajr reply :

I know I am probably SUPER parinoid but this summer, I started putting my cell phone in a small dry bag and kept it on me or near me. I'm thinking What happens if we're out here in the middle of the lake and something happens? I fish with alot of "don't worry about it!" guys but I have seen alot of freaky stuff happen when you least expect it. I'll take a ribbing anytime over my dry bag phone and hope I never need to use it!!

Alan

jeremyt reply :

When I was 14 we were fishing of the pier at the OBX for sharks at night. We had one guy that would kayak out the baits about 400 yds off the end of the pier. One guy forgot to free spool his reel and the guy took a 12/0 hook through his calf, we rushed him to the hospital and they had to cut it out. That is by far the worst injury that I have personally seen. On a side note though, I have been told by friends who have seen guys take treble hooks to the eyes when king mack fishing. Always wear some sort of eye protection.

Low_Budget_Hooker reply :

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I know I am probably SUPER parinoid but this summer, I started putting my cell phone in a small dry bag and kept it on me or near me. I'm thinking What happens if we're out here in the middle of the lake and something happens? I fish with alot of "don't worry about it!" guys but I have seen alot of freaky stuff happen when you least expect it. I'll take a ribbing anytime over my dry bag phone and hope I never need to use it!!
Alan

Hopefully, that false confidence goes away quickly. It's easy to think nothing can happen when the shore is only 50 ft away in a 10 ft deep lake. Death can happen, and in many different ways. You can NEVER be too prepared.

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When I was 14 we were fishing of the pier at the OBX for sharks at night. We had one guy that would kayak out the baits about 400 yds off the end of the pier.

Dude,....I gotta meet you 8-)

jeremyt reply :

Come on down, we can head out to the stream during the day for wahoo, kings and hopefully a bill fish or two, and at night maybe hook into a good 250pd Sand Tiger. It's a blast.

Tin reply :

This year with 5.Slow, jumping out of the Crawdacious-Unit foot got caught landed sideways on a curb and busted a few ribs.

Worst I have ever seen was a guy loading his boat. The ramp was steep, so he loaded all but about 3 feet on so the nose wouldnt go under the front roller. So he pulls it up a little so the nose will go over and starts cranking it up with winch. Since it is a load on the winch he is bent over cranking it has hard as he can when the winch gear slips or something, well need less to say the boat goes down and almost off the trailer and the winch handle starts spinning out of control, hitting the guy in the forehead twice. Cut his forehead WIDE open, just nasty, blood everywhere.

rondef reply :

My daughter in law had a catfish fin go deep into the palm of her hand while trying to get the hook out of it's mouth. This happened on a day where she had caught about 10 catfish with no problems. I cleaned her wound best I could and bandaged it up and then took her back to the dock since she was in a lot of pain. This was the first time I ever had to break out the emergency medical kit. My son took her to to the hospital where they cleaned out the wound again, bandaged her up and gave her some antibiotics and pain medication. The next weekend she was back out there tearing it up again catching catfish.

Tokyo Tony reply :

Wow everyone - reading all these posts has totally freaked me out :-?

Luckily I don't have any stories like this, but I'm definitely gonna be even MORE careful now.

z115491 reply :

Just reading that made my "man parts" hurt

jkart reply :

thank you all for the replys keep them comeing. I can see there are of diffrent ways to get injuryed. A lot to watch out for.

Del from philly reply :

last thursday:

I wore a suit to work, but on the way out the weather actually looked warm so i borrowed my coworkers running shoes and hit the schukill

after walking through the woods, i noticed a big glass window shattered all around my feet. I stepped way, and walked right into a big jagged peice of broken glass.

The piece of glass went through the top of the running shoes as i took my step, and right into my big toe.

At first, it was numb and i wasnt sure how bad it was, then when i took a step, blood started foaming out of the top of the shoe.....every step it would bubble out like a volcano....

it waS making me lightheaded, anf for a second i didnt know what to do, i was alone in the woods, and loosing blood fast.

I actually saw people but was too embarressed to yell for help. I ended up hobbling to my truck, leaving an obviouse blood trail on the cement, it was actually making the sound of soaking wet shoes and making that "squish" sound every step....

whi8le driving home i realized that blood had soaked the entire shoe, and was getting all over my pedals and making me slip all around

it was pretty scary untill i got home...

Fishin-Psyantist reply :

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My daughter in law had a catfish fin go deep into the palm of her hand while trying to get the hook out of it's mouth.

I dont know why it is, but it seems to me like a catfish fin through the skin is the most painfull of any fish I have experienced. It just down right HURTS.

fisherdave reply :

When I first got my boat I took it to lake and tried it out and when I was loading it to leave I slipped off the side of the trailor into the water and got a few brewses and scratches but mostlly my pride because the boat dock is right in the middle of the state park and the camping area was full so I had a crowd watching.

fishfordollars reply :

5X hooks in different body parts. Only once by me. None required a trip to the E/R.

TR21Lay reply :

I got hung up flipping and while looking forward to the next spot to flip to I gave it a hard ******. As the jig came flying by me the only thing that toughed me was the point of the hook on the end of my nose. It hit me so hard it snatched my head around.

I had to load the boat up with a 3/4 blaclk/blue jig with skirt and pork rind swinging around below my chin. I got home, removed the skirt and rind, and tried to get it out. I called my wife to come home an hour early to help, she refused and took me to the hospital. They tried to cut the hook. It was one of those blue hardened steel ones and couldn't be cut. Finally a male nurse went out to his truck and brought in a bolt cutter, after calling in several other nurses to have a look.

Never really hurt, just embarrassing. I still have a little scar on both sides of my nose.

Bassnajr reply :

OWWWWWW!!!!

I thought my Power Worm with worm hook earring was bad...you win!!!

bassinajr

Fish Chris reply :

Talk about a PAINFUL thread ! :-)

I still can't believe that after 40 years of hard-core fishing, I've still never sunk a hook into myself, past the barb.

However, one time about 25 years ago (I still remember this like it happened yesterday, if that gives you any indication of how severe this was) I was fishing from the bank, out in the muddy, tidally effected Ca Delta. One time I was reeling in my 4 oz lead pyramid weight, when it got snagged right beyond the water line. The thing was, there was a 25 foot distance of thick, slick mud (low tide) between the edge of the water, and the actual dry, solid shoreline. So I start pulling, and pulling.... but it won't come loose. I must have pulled 10 feet of stretch, out of 25 feet of 20 lb mono..... When ZING ! That freaking 4 oz lead weight came loose, and shot back at me with such tremendous force, I really didn't see it coming ! I mean, I bet it didn't curve down 1 inch, in its 30 foot travel..... and POW ! That thing blasted me right in the middle of my chin ! It didn't knock me down, but it was really close. Immediatly, my chin swelled out to the distance of my nose ! It also drove all kinds of grit and grime, deep into my chin. It didn't really split it open (must have hit on one of the flat sides) but instead, it just kind of turned my chin into hamburger. Took months to completely heal. I still imagine how much worse that would have been a couple inches higher, right through the middle of all of my teeth..... or in an eye !

It was horrible, but it sure could have been worse !

Be careful out there,

Fish

PS, Freaking stretchy arse mono anyway....... This wouldn't have ever happened if I had been using braid. No stretch, means no sling shot......

dave reply :

A friend reached back to cast a crankbait and unknowingly hooked his brother in the side right around the kidney. He felt the resistance and jerked hard to free the lure. Snapped the line, trebles buried. He almost passed out. Not seeing the hooks in him but, his other brother trying to cut it out with an old bait knife. Hospital after that. We laugh about it now 20+ years later.

dave reply :

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I know I am probably SUPER parinoid but this summer, I started putting my cell phone in a small dry bag and kept it on me or near me. I'm thinking What happens if we're out here in the middle of the lake and something happens? I fish with alot of "don't worry about it!" guys but I have seen alot of freaky stuff happen when you least expect it. I'll take a ribbing anytime over my dry bag phone and hope I never need to use it!!
Alan

I had a seat break off in a john boat once while wearing my phone on my belt. In the drink I went. No injury but, phone ruined. Or so I thought. Battery was toast but, after a thorough drying, the phone still works. I don't have it on my person when I fish now. In a zip lock bag it goes.

maxke01 reply :

i have a scar on my right ear.. was fishing with a buddy 2 springs ago and he got himself stuck in a tree somehow..instead of working it out he gave the rod a jerk and his Rapala went right into my ear

Hookem reply :

Broke 3 ribs when I slipped on wet carpet and hit the gunwale. Ouch!

Bankbeater reply :

Many years ago I was on a rock dam and one of the rocks rolled. My knee came down on a pointed rock and I had a hole in my knee about the size of a penny. It swelled up and I couldn't bend it for 10 days. I went to the ER and x-rays looked like a car windshield, OK around the edges but busted up in the middle.

Team_Dougherty reply :

Last summer I was night bank fishing for catfish with 3 Friend on lake ontelaunee. I was just sitting in my chair minding my own business when It felt like i got shot in the face. I yelled, I don't understand was that? I put my hands up to my face and could feel blood all over. My friends came over to see what I was fussing about. They where shinning flashlights on me and could see my face cut from the bottom of my nose to the top of my lip and it was deep. What happened was on of the guys I was fishing with got snagged as he was trying to pull it out his 1 oz. lead sinker flew back hitting me square in the face. I did not even see him doing him trying to free it, it was so dark. I did not even have a chance to put my hands up to deflect it.

SPEEDBEAD. reply :

I just read every one of those 5 pages.....i feel queasy and lucky too!!

FishinDaddy reply :

TR wins!

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