Getting hooked up, the hard way!

[boomerball]

Brother caught my dad perfectly in the earlobe once. I think there were some jokes about whether he wanted to put one of mom's earrings in it to keep the piercing. i dont recall him being too amused, and i think it was the wrong (right) ear anyway.....

[rbsears]

We were fly fishing in the White Mountains of Arizona with my girlfriend (now my wife). Wanted to show her what I could do with a 9 1/2 ft fly rod with a bullet sinking line. Got about 25 yards out when I pierced my right ear thanks to a gust of wind. Parachute Adams in the cartilage. I'm a man. I clipped it off and continued fishing until the throbbing set in.

[sir huntsalot]

A few of my close buddies and I ran down to Surfside one morning when the conditions looked good. We get there in plenty of time before sunrise and commence to wading the surf, fishing topwaters. One of my buddies has a trout spit his lure back at him on the hook set. He does a sluggish, matrix-like dodge as the lure connects solidly to his forehead with a meaty thud. Since the fishing was pretty good, we just unscrewed the hook from the lure and kept fishing. I gotta give it to him, the only thing he said was "uh-oh" when it hit him. Luckily, we got some pictures I also caught my PB spanish mackeral that morning

[TexaRican]

Oh God, I hope nobody digs up that hook in the eyeball pic that was around a few years ago.

[Christianhuff]

Best so far!

A few of my close buddies and I ran down to Surfside one morning when the conditions looked good. We get there in plenty of time before sunrise and commence to wading the surf, fishing topwaters. One of my buddies has a trout spit his lure back at him on the hook set. He does a sluggish, matrix-like dodge as the lure connects solidly to his forehead with a meaty thud. Since the fishing was pretty good, we just unscrewed the hook from the lure and kept fishing. I gotta give it to him, the only thing he said was "uh-oh" when it hit him. Luckily, we got some pictures I also caught my PB spanish mackeral that morning

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That's awesome, wish I could have had a video of my cousin tugging on those pliers. Dude was white as a ghost, but I was the one with two big treble hooks buried past the barb!

[Christianhuff]

I was not about to stop fishing either, we had a school of 4-6lb fish busting shad in the back of that cove.

[Pullersboy]

I guess I've lost the pic somehow, but the wife and I were put on Marine Creek lake a few years back and she had just gotten snagged up in the brushy area we were fishing. We got her us nagged and went back to fishing. I was casting off the front on the boat and she off the back. I wasn't looking at her, and wasn't really paying attention to her either as I was focused on what I was doing. Then, I hear her say "Um, Houston, we have a problem." As calm as she could be. I didn't even turn around. I just asked "Get hung up again?" She says "Yeah, I guess you could say that. Look at this." I turned and saw that her #2 H2O worm hook was firmly embedded in her inner thigh, worm still attached. I went over and cut the line and took a look. I figured out really quick that it was buried past the barb and down the the main curve of the hook. I said we need to go to the ER for this one, it's too deep. She asked if I could get it out. I said sure I can, but then we'll both be at the ER. You for the hook and me for a broken nose. She was fine until we started across the lake to head in. Then she kind of started to freak about it a little bit. Man! You should have seen how much deadening fluid they injected around that thing. The procedure was one I'd never seen before. The Dr actually took a large gauge injection needle and slid it into her leg a log the shaft of the hook and covered up the barb of the hook with the hollow end of the needle. Once he had the barb covered up, he just slid them both out of the original entry hole together.

[fox1]

While fly fishing I managed to get a very small very sharp hook buried in between the bones in the knuckle of my left thumb, couldn't push it through and couldn't pull it out. Went to the little emergency room in B.F.E Montana and the attending doc told me to quit acting like a baby, the guy before me had one stuck in his sack and didn't complain at all.

[Ten Ring]

My dad and I were out camping and fishing a Purtis Creek state park. On the first day of our week long trip I was fishing a deep diving crank bait in trees sticking up. My first cast on that lure I ended up hooking up a 4 ponder. As I'm all excited and trying to get a hold of him with out hooking my self, he flopped around and sank two hooks of the treble hook into my inner calf, right below my knee. The fish proceeded to thrash around and come off the hook, but left the crank bait in my leg. I cut the line and picked the fish up, weight him, took a picture and released him. Then thought about what to do next. We had maybe another hour and a half of fishing light left, so we considered out three options:
1. Continue fishing till dark then take care of it somehow.
2. Go find a Dr. in Athens or Gun Barrel City (didn't know where anything was)
3. Let my dad try some hook removing trick he had seen on a you-tube video.
We ended up going with option three. And it worked. Basically a looped string around the base of the hook and yank it really hard and fast. Didn't even feel it removed. Was kinda neat and we proceeded to fish till dark.

I think this is the video he was talking about and the method he used.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQFE4hA7kSo

[Mayhem]

Caught my dad in the back with a 1/4oz jig head with hogie swimming shad on it.

Biggest **** backlash I have ever had. [emoji23][emoji23][emoji23][emoji23]

[M16]

Was teaching my wife how to fish with plastic worms. All she caught was a sucker.
That would be me.

[Jmh05]

I take out about one a month on average when I'm working ER...arms, legs, heads and faces.


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[Draco]

I've bent my barbs down for over 30 years now and catch just as many fish as before.

[Slew]

I've been stuck several times! Worst was in a tournament in college on Toledo Bend! Had a good sack early on ripping traps w teflon coated Excallibur hooks through grass and ripped one outta the grass too close to the boat and buried it to the shank in my arm through a longsleeve shirt so I just taped it to my arm good and kept fishing! By weight in I was about to pass out and after we got our check I had my buddy drive us back to Natchitoches and take me to the ER. Check about paid for the hospital bill from the blood poisoning from the hook in my arm for 8 hours or however long it was.

Took my mom to a killer bream hole one year for Mothers Day cause I was too poor to buy a present and she stuck a hook in my back and didn't realize what happened and why she couldn't cast so she just kept trying to cast. Luckily the little wire cricket hook broke off after the 2-3 tug! I bought her a card every year since!!!

[LiftAndShoot]

During his actual retirement and my mini retirement, my dad and I were out fishing for spanish in the bay back home near a place called Shell Island. We were both fishing top water on spinning reels, having a big 'ol time. Well, we get into them pretty good and it seems like every time a bait hits the water it's being struck with the quickness. Dad slings a bait at a school of them and the following happened alarmingly quickly.

Zzzzzzzzz. Sploosh. Click. Yank. <SWEAR WORDS>. Me laughing.

No sooner had he flipped the bail than a blackfin boiled at it and he was a little excited. He didn't so much try to set the hook as he did try to pull the plug out of the ocean. His zarra puppy came fastballing back at him, caught him in the hat/ear, and send him off his post seat into the floor of the boat. Problem was, it happened so fast he didn't know what to do. He couldn't decide whether to put his rod down, dehook himself, or get up. I'm almost hyperventilating I'm laughing so hard, but I manage to get out, 'You alright, pops?!' and in true dad fashion he yells, 'Hell no, not yet!'

He turned out to be fine.