Spots on river rip-rap 5-5-06

[polo-dog]

It does work great most of the time.

 

[flip1up]

I'll have to remember that Polo. I had to push a hook through the other side of my finger one time to cut the barb off to get it out, ouch.

 

[TennesseeTalker]

Well you would be proud of me .. I finally get it!!! I had to read and look at the picture for quite some time but I now understand what you were talking about Polo. How does that method work with treble hooks??? That's usually what I get wacked with!

TT

 

[ChooChooSnakeMan]

Hey Polo,

Good info to share on the forum. Several years ago I was bass fishing on Watts Bar and went up front to get my lure unsnagged from the bottom. Well my fishing buddy didn't keep a neat boat and since the bow was really going up and down due to high wind I knelt down on one knee to keep from going overboard. You guessed it!!! I put the knee right down on a big red fin. I didn't feel really anything except like a bee sting. When I got up I had his lure attached to my knee. My friend cut the treble hook off the lure and grabbed a hold of it to push the barb on thru. It was buried all the way up to the shank in my knee cap. Well I about came unglued and told him that I appreciated his help, but I would take care of it. After much pain, I managed to push the hook as far as the shank and eye would let me, but only just the point came thru. To make this long story short, I went for a rough boat ride of about 10 miles back to the dock and then drove myself to the clinic. When I walked in with the big treble hook hanging from my knee I told the receiptionist that it wasn't a fashion statement and I wanted it out. The doctor on call used the method you described and in a couple of minutes the whole thing was over. Being in the profession you are in, I would be interested in some posts under it's own heading of how to handle the most common on the water type medical emergencies if you have time to give us your opinion.

 

[MadBomber]

Yes, I did jerk a hook out of Drum King, I also jerked one out of my Neighbor (usual fishing buddy). My hook went in sideways and I just simply didn't have the guts to jerk it out or push it through. (What a Wuss!!). If you decide to push it through, it might be a good idea to get a chunk of ice out of the cooler and numb it up a little first.

 

[jon the fisherman]

Kind of funny story. When I was bank fishing years ago, I went to get in the car and felt a sting in my butt. When I stuck my hand back there, I felt a plastic lizard Texas rigged and stuck through my shorts. The guy I was fishing with had set his rod in the back and never secured the lizard. When I sat down, it set the hook. We were on the side of a busy road and me bent over, my buddy was over there with the needle nose pulling. He finally just yanked it out. Boy did that hurt, I could not sit on the right cheek for a week.

 

[sandskeeter]

I hooked a rooster tail in my back on the Elk river one time fishing for trout,,, my buddy was too queasy to pull it out for me so i just cut the line and fished the rest of the day with it in my back till i got home and got someone to get it out for me... its not that im that tough but i aint gonna drive all that way and pay all that money for a trout stamp to leave early just because a treble hook is in me. and besides i have a high tolerance for pain.

 

[polo-dog]

I told you guys that I took a hook out of my pastor once, here's what happened. I had asked my old pastor at Woodland Park Baptist, Wayne Barber, to fish with me a bunch of times, finally he said yes and we planned to fish the Harrison Bassmasters dog fight one night in the early 90's. We got together early to pre fish and it was getting about time to get to Harrison Bay Park to sign up when Wayne hung his rattletrap in a bush on the shore. We got in close and he kept pulling when it shot out of the bush right at him and impaled one of the trebbles into his forearm. We just barely had time to get to the sign in spot so I told him that I would get it out later at the dock but we needed to go. It was a windy night and it was rough on the lake and as we bounced around running to get to the dock I can remember the pain on his face as he tried to keep that rattletrap still while we bounced. We paid our money and I got the hook out soon after but I felt kind of bad later that we had to run in the swells with that bait in his arm but as you guys know, we really didn't want to be late for the dogfight. Anyway, we both had fun and he lived through it all but come to think of it, he never went fishing with me again, I just can't understand why.

 

[TennesseeTalker]

jon the fisherman - 5/8/2006 7:58 PM

Kind of funny story. When I was bank fishing years ago, I went to get in the car and felt a sting in my butt. When I stuck my hand back there, I felt a plastic lizard Texas rigged and stuck through my shorts. The guy I was fishing with had set his rod in the back and never secured the lizard. When I sat down, it set the hook. We were on the side of a busy road and me bent over, my buddy was over there with the needle nose pulling. He finally just yanked it out. Boy did that hurt, I could not sit on the right cheek for a week.

OUCH! Glad I didn't read that yesterday ... I wouldn't have been able to get a moment of sleep with that senario in my brain!! Poor Jon!! Or poor Guy who had to do the road side surgery!!! Heck .. I'm not sure who to feel sorrier for!

TT

 

[mandolinpicker]

I got into a Spanish Mackerel run while pier fishing in March. On the pier there's always sightseers walking around wathcing people fish and tend to gather whenever anyone's on to anything. I was killing those Spanish on a red/silver gotcha plug. I had one fish nearly to the rail when he came off and the Gotcha, suddenly released from the tension, did a big arch over my head and into my backside. So in one second I went from looking like an expert Spanish slayer to a moron with a hook in his butt. I've never felt more macho!

 

[polo-dog]

That is too funny!!!!!!!!emoUpsmile emoUpsmile I'm glad that it was you and not me. I wouldn't put it past me to have that happen to me either.

 

[mandolinpicker]

Polo, it had to be pretty hilarious. There was a nice lady there who volunteered to cut the treble hook out of my shorts. Which is good because that was my only Gotcha and I'm not entirely sure I wouldn't have dropped my shorts to cut it out myself had she not been there to help. I would have been a looooongggg walk to the baitshop and the Mack run would have been over for sure by the time I'd have gotten back. HA!