Caught a big one!

[mgdavidson]

I was out fishing with a buddy of mine in my aluminum boat with a 15 hp motor about two weeks ago. We were at my cottage where I have fished for years and am used to getting caught in the tree which hang out over the lake. Sometimes a little jiggle gets the lure free, other times a little more effort is involved and sometimes I have to practically climb the tree.<br /><br />Well, this time around, the lure wasn't coming out easy, so I told my friend to look the other way while I yank on the line (I didn't want to hit him in the face). He looks away, I jerk my rod away from the tree and WHAM! I caught a 6 foot 225 pound trophy named Colin. <br /><br />When I jerked on the rod, the rod tip was pointing at his leg when it stopped. The lure came out of the tree like a bullet and straight into his calf muscle. We tried to get it out right there, but it wasn't budging. Since we were close to home base and there is a hospital in town, just up the road, I drove him in. Everyone at the hospital was teasing me about the big one I caught. <br /><br />We had only been on the water for maybe 30 minutes and I was in the lead 2 - 0 when I hooked Colin. I felt really bad about it and forfeited the day's fishing to him.<br /><br />All in all it wasn't too serious. We drank beer and joked about it for the rest of the evening. He told me to stop apologizing. He's a little skittish now though. We went fishing yesterday and he was jumpy everytime a lure was within 5 feet of him. At least he "got right back in the boat".<br /><br />Mike<br /><br />P.S. My wife has developed a technique for dislodging hooks from trees that annoys me greatly. If she can, she gently jiggles the hook loose, it drops straight down into the water and she immediately catches a fish! I have seen her do this several times over the years.

 

[Fishbusters]

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Who gets hooked in trees? I am fishing that means I need my lure in the water. Perhaps if I was trying to catch squirles I would throw my lure in the trees. <br />In truth I know somewhere on here there is a post about getting lures out that would have saved the fishing day. You take a heavy piece of string/fishing line/small rope and loop it into the bend of the hook. You then press down on the hook eye as much as you can. Idealy you should touch the skin with it. You then give the loop of line a sharp jerk in the dirrection oppisite the way the hook went in and it should pop right out. I have seen it done although I have never done it myself or to myself and it works. The pressure on the hook alligns the barb so it will not dig inand the hook backs out the hole it came in just like it was a needle or barbless hook. If the hook point had come back out the skin like it does when it hooks a fish the best thing to have dome would have been cut the shank and push it through.<br />I always carry bandaids, guaze pads, medical tape, ace bandages, antibiotic, a rigged suture kit (needle and thresd in a sterile pack just like the hospital uses) and several other odds and ends to deal with cuts and such. I always have heavy cutters as well so I can cut a hook shank if needed. I also carry other things such as diarehha(sp) medicine, tylenol, asprin (you can numb a tooth or cut with it), ambesol(tooth and cuts) as well as other medication I could need to keep me on the water or take care of myself if perhaps I get stuck out there longer than expected. I hate calling off a fishing trip and learned over the years that a little preperation and trouble at first can save a lot of heartache and a trip.

 

[KeltonKrew]

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I carry a small first aid kit, but the most important item is TOILET PAPER. You never know when Mother Nature calls!

 

[495v]

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I'm afraid to bring the TP. My buddies would want to hang ten over the side and I'm still scared from a childhood experience. Let me explain....I was about 12, with my brother and a friend of the family in a jon boat. The friend was probably in his 40's. We were in this shallow cove hammering the largemouth when all of a sudden I heard, bloop..bloop..bloop. I turn to see this guy, hangin ten over the back of the boat. He proceed to just pull his pants up and continue fishin' as if nothing happened. Who could think about fishin' after that! Scared for life, I guess.

 

[Emby]

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495v-<br /><br />Makes sense to me. I'm usually in a jon when I go bloop..bloop..bloop.

 

[495v]

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That's good Didn't realize I left myself open to that one.

 

[dmessy]

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bloop..bloop...bloop! LOL! <br />Beware of catching the BIG one!..

 

[CalicoKid]

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Peterfishbuster, you sure carry a lot of first aid stuff along!! Didn't you try taking a cat fishing once or was that someone else? If so, that would explain all the aspirin and bandaids. A friend of mine had a treble hook in his pinkie finger (actually, both pinkies, with his arms around his canoe thwart) in the wilderness. It took a pliers and some bourbon to get that out. A little bit of tendon came out too. We also had a good first aid kit along, including a shovel so we don't scare the fish.

 

[Fishbusters]

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Nope no cat but I do have a 7 year old and a 6 year old. I also have a pontoon and I could be out all day or longer(even w/o breaking down) so I make sure I am prepared for that. I have also sliced my foot open rather badly on a broken bottle and was hours away from help as well as several other mishaps that could turn realy bad if you were not prepared. I don't carry all that in the canoe but I am only gone for a few hours and close to the launch point anyway.

 

[Scoop]

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Speaking of medical attention being far away. We took one of those fly in fishing trips in Canada. The plane drops you off early in the morning and you fish all day day at a lake no one can get to by car, 4x4 etc. We had 3 hours to go before pickup when I noticed one of those silver water beetles in the bottom of the boat. As a kid, I always tried to catch one to look at and was never able to. Now after all these years, I have a chance. I pick the thing up and start looking at it, when holy crap, the thing stings me worse than any wasp I have ever been stung. The other guy in the boat thinks this is hilarious. I think it's hilarious until I realize that my finger is starting to get numb and the numbness is moving up my finger. I can't move my finger very well and wonder if I am having an allergic reaction with help 3 hours away. It felt like getting your finger injected with novacaine. After 20 minutes, the numbness started going away so I guess I was lucky. Who knew those things stung? By the way, we all caught our limit of walleye in less than 20 minutes. The fishing was awesome. I definitely learned a lesson.

 

[loganmallory]

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you mean sometimes it takes longer than 20mins to catch a limit of pickeral? not up here<br /> tim

 

[495v]

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PICKERAL....there's a Canuck word I haven't heard in a while. If you ask most people in the states, they have no idea what your talking about. A Canadian friend an I used to argue over the species name and wether it should truly be called a Walleye or a Pickeral. Hey no matter....still taste the same.

 

[Quiller]

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A walleye is a pickeral as described by a lower 48 dweller. I know they're diferent fish, but we locals can spot the tourists in a hurry by all the talk of the walleye bite.

 

[ebbtide176]

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i'm from the lower lower 48, but i've always thought pickeral referred to a chain pickeral - pike. as in northern pike. in the southern GA swamps the chain pickeral is called a jackfish.<br /><br />i've not caught a walleye, but they're in Lake Lanier, just above Atlanta. they're called walleye here

 

[conimicut1]

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I go a good one!<br /><br />A bunch of us are fishing bluefish, my fiend catches a big one. Its flapping around furiously and he's trying to unhook it. The fish flaps the lure's hooks into my friend, now he's hooked up with a few of the treble hook barbs to a live 10lb bluefish flapping like crazy!! These things have teeth and it also is trying to bite him! It looked painful. The guys had to kill the fish and cut it off of the guy, piece by piece a real bloody mess!

 

[gonfishn]

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The name has changed but the game is stiil the same....