A Picture Says a Thousand Words

[trollhole]

<br /><br />I hope it isn't too much for some of you out there. Thought about putting it in Black and white. JB just let me know.

 

[Ralphy]

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Hurry up and get the dang hook free!! You got multi arches on the Lowrance!!! <br /><br />LOL...j/k troll, that had to hurt a bit!

 

[mellowyellow]

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ouch! a good reason to keep a pair of sharp wire<br />snips onboard...

 

[Barlow]

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I'm not even going to ask ......ouch!<br /><br />OK - 40-50fow 24-30 down, 40 back ... guessing diamond prism/black has been HOT!<br /><br />j/k toll .. ditto on mellowyellows wire snips. Had a magnum Stinger spoon pop out of a Kings mouth when I was netting a few years ago. Had the fish netted in the water when the spoon popped out, rode the net shaft up then in and out of the flesh between my thumb and index finger. The large needle-nose pliers I keep in my side pocket never came out so fast - I felt like a wild west gun slinger.

 

[beezee28]

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Ouch!! Talk about body piercing... This is the extreme.

 

[skeezx01]

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i accused a girl i once knew who had lots of pierced things in her face of falling into a tackle box but this might also qualify.

 

[JB]

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OWWW! <br /><br />Actually, it is not too bad. The barb is already out and available to be snipped off.<br /><br />A few drops of Anbesol and she comes out okay.<br /><br />The worst ones have the barb still buried. Been there. This one might be halfway done. Somebody might have already pushed the barb through.

 

[brother chris]

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All I got to say is OUCH!!!!!!

 

[Chris1956]

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Trollhole, They say that lures are designed to catch fisherman, not fish. I'm not sure you are supposed to take it so literaly.<br /><br />I caught my dog once, well it wasn't my fault. I had my tackle box open on the deck to dry in the sun. The dog must have thought one of those striper poppers was a dog treat. Hooked himself in the lip.<br /><br />Wife and I to the rescue? I had to cut the treble hook in his lip, off the plug, so his headshaking didn't injure wife or me with the two other treble hooks. Then she got the dog in a headlock and I had to force the barb through his lip and cut it off. Back the hook out and a little neosporin and F-troop was back to normal!

 

[jtexas]

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Originally posted by Ralphy:<br /> Hurry up and get the dang hook free!! You got multi arches on the Lowrance!!!

watchutalkinbout? just grab another rod and keep fishing! no time to deal with a trivial matter like that when you're on fish.<br /><br />

 

[f_inscreenname]

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Think I will pick up some of those plastic hooks from the kids section at WalMart. Really wouldn't matter (plastic hook). Haven't caught crap this year anyway. At least I will still look like I am fishing.

 

[achris]

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Few years back my step-son insisted on throwing the line out. We both told him (12 years old and already knew everything!) not to do it. Few minutes later he turns around and has the hook buried in his eye-lid. Very luck not to have hit the eye ball. He'd been standing on the line as he throw it out and when it reached the end he was standing on the lead sinker stretched the line enough to re-bound into his face. I cut a piece of line that I was in the process of rigging, passed it through the bite of the hook and with a swift pull, the hook can out the way it went in!<br />10 minutes later he's fishing again, but not throwing the line this time. <br /><br />Chris.............

 

[PurpleDragon]

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I did the same to my Dad about 30 years ago... I was about 5 years old, and tried to "cast sidearmed, like Daddy".. well, the treble hook wound up about 2 inches below his eye... in his upper cheek... Hook didn't go all the way through, so he simply cut off the lure with a pair of dykes(sp?), and fished for the next 10 hours with a hook in his face... At the end of the day, we went home, cleaned up the boat, had dinner, then took a quick trip to the ER.<br /><br />Those were the days... <br /><br />Rex S.

 

[myotherjob2]

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You are not the only one.Been there -done that.I was trying to un-snag my lure from a mangrove when it un-snagged into my leg.I barely made it to the ER where they removed it.Now my 1st aid gear is complete with a forceps tool.I hope you were OK.

 

[Franki]

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All I can say, is that it hurts more when its though the webbing between thumb and fingers..<br /><br />I say that without admitting anything. <br /><br />I will also give a tip, if your in a smallish boat, and your somewhat drunk offsider is trying to take a wiz over the other side of the boat, don't choose that moment to redo your rig.<br /><br />regards<br /><br />Franki

 

[ddaigle]

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My buddy caught a huge flounder on a crankbait and while he was admiring it, it commenced to flopping(as flounder do) and stuck four of the six points of the two treble hooks into his hand. It was a wild scene for a while as the flounder was still attached to the hooks. Thankfully I had some pliers and managed to unhook the flounder and cut the hooks off the lure. Found a new way to get hooks out. Take another hook, straighten it out and flatten the barb, then slide it down the shank of the stuck hook and push the skin back while pulling on the stuck hook and it pops right out. Got all 4 hooks out in 5 minutes and they were stuck deep.

 

[cuzner]

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Years ago When I was a teen, had a dog that liked to sleep in my stuff.Came home from school one day to my mother yelling at me. Spot (the dog) got into a grocerie bag I had some gear in. Had a flatfish hooked to his balls It wasn't too pleasant removing it.I guess you can look on the bright side trollhole, I think your best freind would have made you wait till he found your wife to yank the treble out.<br /><br /> DAMN THAT MUST OF HURT!!!!!!!<br /><br /> Jim

 

[BLU LUNCH]

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YOWL!!!!!!! When I was in boy scouts I saw a member get a plug thru the ear lobe. Hope everything is alright......

 

[Winger Ed.]

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Holding still for the picture reminds me of what Errol Flynn- the actor- told David Niven-the actor- one day:<br /><br />They were buds, and hung out together. One of them had a big wooden motor yacht a 40 to 60 footer, and they would take their dates from Calif. to Catalina Island quite often. <br /><br />These 'dates' were the usual types who would do anything to get close to such famous actors. Most hated the water, and boats. But they'd go anyway, and usually stay hunkered down in the cabin shivvering in fright until they got back within sight of land.<br /><br />Back in them days, you had a 'ice box' instead of a refrigerator. It was stocked with big blocks of ice instead of the crushed ice bags we get at 7-11.<br /><br />To make drinks, you'd normally take one of the blocks out, chip off a few chunks with a real ice pick.... a big giant nail with a handle on it.<br /><br />On one of these trips, David Niven was chipping bits of ice off a block with a ice pick to make mixed drinks, and as the boat rolled on a swell, was thrown off balance, and stabbed the pick right through the back of his hand.<br /><br />"AHHHHHH"!!!!! He said as he looked at it. But, quick as a cat, Flynn told him, "Don't pull it out yet,,,, let's go show the girls"..

 

[Capt Joe]

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errol Flynn was born in Tasmania. During his boyhhod he discovered that if a duck ate a pork sausage it would go straight through & out the other end. So Flynn tied a length of string to a sausage & tossed it into the dusk pen. Result a string of ducks waddling beak to tail!