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[40fathom]

Has anyone got any good stories about going to the Hospital with a hook stuck in them.

[SURF FISHING]

Iam sitting here LOL because that happened to me last year at that time i was not LOL . What happened i was having a good day getting all the blues you could ask for it was starting to get dark so i figured one more cast and then i will be on my way .Well i got a real good hit and it was a good
size blue i got him in. While i was trying to take the hook out of him he jumped up and the hook in the middle of the plug went threw my index finger and the other went threw my thumb and i did not know at the time until he sliped out of my hands there i was a big blue jumping around with the hooks hanging threw my fingers then the pain hit me no one around to help so the only thing i could do was rip the hooks
out . Now all my pluges only have the hook in the tail end i learned the hard way .Went to hospital they could not even stich it because i riped my skin apart gave me a shot and was back fishing next day.

[ACE]

My dad once got a slice on the skin over his knuckle so bad from bluefish teeth he had to go have it stitched at Westerly hospital. The thing is, the bluefish was dead, so never let your guard down.

[Bob Parsons]

Another reason to crush the hooks even on trebles. Even then it takes a pair of pliers and a good yank. Must have nicked a tendon last time since I still have a twinge of pain 3 months later

[40fathom]

I had to drive a 74 Super Beetle from Beavertail to the Newport Hospital with a 12lb Bass on my right hand. It was a four speed and made for some interesting driving at 4:30am. The hook, yes the big ones that Atoms uses somehow ended up hiting the knuckle below my thumb. It traveled with the bone under the nail. The barb was under the nail, this made for some work on the Dr's part. To make a long story short the Dr was high fiving me because I didn't loose the fish and I had it fo dinner. I lost the nail and had to get a few stiches. When I unhook a fish now I slow down just a bit. The thumb works just fine.

[David Churbuck]

Driving a stick shift with a 12 lb bass is one of the funnier images I've imagined in a long time.

The words, "hook" "knuckle" "nail" and "barb" are not good ones to read in the same sentence at 6 am. I'm cringing and laughing.

[glassguy]

What is the best way to pull out a hook. Seems to me, I read something a while back about pressing down on it a certain way while wrapping the back of the hook with mono and using that as a handgrip to pull.

I figure I am due for something like this someday.

Bob

[ANeary]

Friend and I were striper fishing at night and he lands a schoolie around 20 inches .While he's trying to get the fish off the triple treble the fish shakes his head, like they alway do and implaes one of the hooks pretty deep in his thumb. Past the barb. I head over and try to pull it out using hemostats but every time I pull he gets a little more woosy. Looks like he's ready to pass out so he decides to find a better pair of pliers. We were standing in about 3 feet of water about 50 yards off shore. He found a new pair of needle nose that he could get a better grip with and did get the hook out and came back to fish. One reason I started fly rodding, I only have to deal with a single hook at a time. Never quite understood why they put three sets of triple trbles on a 4 inch lure ? Same thing happened to another friend but he wasn't as fortunite, hook went through his thumb and he dropped teh fish back in the water. fish was swimming around while attached to his thumb. They cut off the hook and took him to the hospital where he helped the doctor remove the hook. i think they pulled it up through the thumb. Make your hook barbless they come out easier.

[tmillerzzz]

As a kid I worked on a catfish farm, when ever we drained/seined ponds all the bull heads (horn pout up here) all got thrown out on the bank. While using a string trimmer around one of the ponds I went to kick a dead bull head out of the way, the spike on the side of a 2 week old rotten bullhead went through my shoe, into my big toe and was showing in the middle of my big toe nail.... had to cut my shoe off because of the barbs on the spike. Doc had to lay open my toe to remove barbed spike and clean out bull head funk......

[ruge13]

the line has been crossed....thats nasty

[Bob Parsons]

I can sympathise with ya Tim. My older brother pick up a dead catfish and threw it at me. That pec barb stuck into my shoulder.

[ruge13]

I got a nasty story for ya......When I was little, 5 or 6 I think, I don;t remember, my family had a 4th of july party out at a family house on a lake. I was fishing with a 2 or 3 inch repalla on the shore line for bass around some lilly pads and fallen trees. Another kid at the party, a friend of the family's son, who was also my age came over to see if I had caught anything. at the time I had gotten the repalla stuck on a log on the surface of the water and was pulling at it. when he cam over he decided to help, and started pulling on the rod and line with me. Our heads couldn't have been more than a few inches apart. Well, the bark gave way and the Lure came screaming back at us. I ducked, he didn't. All I heard was him screaming and people running down to the water. I guess I kind of went into shock when I was crying and don't remember a whole lot after that but I can vividly remember what his face looked like when his dad helped him up and off to the hospital. The trebbles caught him square in the eye. Pretty nasty sight and I will never forget it. To this day I still cringe and shy away everytime I get stuck on something because thats what I picture in my head. He lost the eye.

[beaconhill]

I was fishing at about 3 one morning and got a big black deceiver stuck in my forearm - very deep, couldn't get it out on my own. It didn't hurt, so I kept fishing until the health center opened (this was on Block Island). The doc took me in, and before he cut it out, commented on the nice deceiver I had tied - he took the hook out and I tied him some flies.

[hightechtoo]

If you've heard this one, stop me....

I'm in the shower...dressed as one would be in the shower....Wife yells Come Quick, the dog (new springer puppy) is choking on something!
Young son -(9-10yrs old) tries to help and get whatever it is out of dog's mouth. Seems the dog got hold of a plastic container with an ice fishing jig in it. Jig has hooks on both ends like this (____) . Seems one end is caught in Dogs lip. Son gets other end caught in his hand. Dog retreats under bed along with sons hand. Dog is yelping, Son is screaming. Wife is screaming. Dad comes in Dressed in....well you know. Gets dog out from under bed and sends wife to the garage for a pair of pliers. Dad cuts the jig in half. Wife takes Son to the ER, Dad (gets dressed and) takes dog to the VET!

[David Churbuck]

Reading this topic is like chewing on aluminum foil.

[klaney]

I've been fishing for most of my 28 years and have only stuck myself good(notice I said good) once. I was up in Pulaski two years ago and landed a nice 20+ king. I wanted to get a picture for the photo album, so I grabbed the fish with one hand in the gills and another around the base of the tail. What I neglected to see was the large stainless steel bait hook that someone had broken off right near the tail, so when I lifted the fish and it squirmed.... you guessed it, got the hook right through my pinky! So I'm sitting there with a hook in my hand that's attached to a thrashing salmon. I put the fish on the ground and tried to cut through the hook with a leathermans tool, but the wire cutters weren't strong enough to cut through stainless. Luckily, a nearby fisherman came over to help and told me to just count to three, and obviously, pulled it out on two! He managed to do a hell of a job. Even with the fish thrashing, the hole in my pinky was about the width of the hook and barb! I bled the cut a little, wrapped it up with a dunkin donuts napkin and some duct tape and was back on the river in less than 15 minutes. No ER required!

[Cheju]

Duct tape? This stuff is going to be so expensive. Every doctor and hospital will require it and the medical insurers will have to pay for it. Look out!

Cheju:eek:

[joelyons]

While fishing on Block Island about seven years ago I was using a hook disgorger to retrieve my eel and live bait hook from a deeply hooked bass. (This was before I switched to circles.)
I was rushing because there were so many fish around….I pushed it down and turned it, but drew it up too fast and buried it between my thumb joint and where the thumb connects to the hand. I tried to push it through, but it would not budge.
Not wanting to leave the fish, I continued to fish out the tide, went to bed and had it removed the next day. It did not hurt or bother me at all….I got used to it after a while

[Slow]

On the way to the boat to go try out my new 3" lure with two trebles on my light tackle rod, we (me, my wife, and our 4 month old puppy Maggie) stopped by my parents house to see some new construction. We left Maggie in the car and took a quick tour of the house. When I came out to grab my rod and walk down to the dock I couldn't figure it out. I grabbed the rod but the new lure wasn't tied in any more and questions started running thru my mind. Did I not tie it in? Did my knot slip? Did I lose it? Where did it go? Where can I get a new one? Man, am I losing it?.......Hey why is Maggie staying in the front seat she's never that good? The last question hit me about the same time my wife opened the front door and let out a small scream. As soon as I heard that scream I knew the answer to every question. Yup Maggie somehow had jumped in the back seat and gotten two hooks of the treble caught in her chest and then (probabaly trying to get away from the pain ran to the front of the car) In doing so she had parted the 8lb test (20lb dog at the time) Then she must have been fussing with the lure and gotten one of the hooks of the other treble hooked in her arm. She (the puppy) was sitting there very calm, but a little concerned. (my wife was a little less calm and lot more concerned) I cut the trebles off of the lure so that her forearm wasn't attached to her chest. Then cut the base of the treble in her arm away from the other two hooks of the treble. (notice here I don't account for where the remaining two hooks go) I tried to push away from the barb and pull the hook out, no good. I tried to push the hook back thru her skin and out again, but Maggie was having NONE of that. OK I'll admit it so far this story is like chewing on tinfoil, but here's where it gets good. We took her to the vet. While the vet was in back removing the hook the admin fired up the computer. A billing symbol later and across the screen comes "Fish Hook Removal". No joke. They had a code on the computer at the vet on the cape for "Fish Hook Removal". With a single code it automatically billed for the 20 minutes with the vet, the knock out gas for the dog, and the weeks worth of antibiotics. So with a slightly lighter wallet, a dog who will no longer come anywhere near me if I'm holding a fishing rod, short one brand new lure, and with my wife armed with yet another reason why I shouldn't spend so much time fishing, we headed back to my parents. I pull up the driveway and hop out of the car(barefoot) take one step towards the back door to let Maggie out and she gets her revenge. The remaining two hooks that I failed to account for earlier were now found!! In the bottom of my foot. You can be sure after I had tried to play surgeon on our dog there was no way that ANYONE (my wife or parents) were going to drive me to the hospital they figured that I needed the practice. I found the method of cutting the base off and pushing the hook thru to be the less painful alternative. (a note dont cut the base off until AFTER you have pushed the tip and barb out the other side first. Otherwise you could end up with a hook under your skin and no way to push it out. It didn't happen to me, but it seemed like it coud have.) I really should switch to barbless hooks......

[JSeamans]

Worst I ever heard was my friend's dad reading the Coast Guard report aloud one time on the Cape: Airlift off fishing boat due to tuna hook in scrotum.
:eek:


My personal worst was one of those Flatfish lures with two small trebles on a spreader bar and a large one at the tail: there was a small largemouth thrashing around on one of the small trebles. My hand came up as he was coming down and the large treble was buried in the tip of my finger with the fish still flapping all over the dock with me attached. Doc had to cut it and push the point out the other side. Love them smelling salts...
--124-3

[David Churbuck]

I just copied this thread into the Hall of Fame. The tuna hook through the scrotum did it for me.

I've heard that some emergency rooms have a special display of stuff they've removed from patients. Anyone know if any ER docs keep the hooks and lures they remove from their hapless patients?

[Mark Cahill]

I've seen a charter captain in Alaska who kept a copy of an x-ray on his boat showing a large halibut circle hook embedded in his hand.

Apparently he was fishing alone 3 hours out of Homer in fairly heavy seas. Had to pilot the boat back in in intense pain...

My Dad was an Anesthesiologist...(RI Veterans may remember him from the VA). He had many great stories...especially from his days at Boston City Hospital, affectionately known as the Boston Knife and Gun Club.

Like:

The paramedics showed up at the scene of an accident. A guy in an old country squire had rear ended someone, and a large crowbar had flown from the back of the car, through the headrest of the seat, through his head and into the windshield. The paramedic looked in and said "He's dead..."

Guy whispers, "I'm not dead yet..."

They used a cutoff saw to cut the crowbar off in front of his skull and behind it. After something like 16 hours of surgery, the guy survived, although he'd had a serious attitude adjustment...

Or this one:

Guy gets dragged into the er with the hilt of a knife hanging out of the top of his left shoulder. They xray him, and find out the blade is over a foot long. The knife had apparently passed just outboard of the heart, and inboard of the aorta. In other words, his heart and aorta were wrapped around the knife. A move in either direction or any jarring at all getting him to the er would have killed him. Another 15 hours worth of surgery...presto, he lives to be stabbed again.