Last year while trying to release a 10# blackmouth I somehow got the trailer hook stuck in my index finger. This can be very intertaining when the fish is still struggling. Anyone else have a good fish scar? BTW the first hook was still firmly embedded in the salmon's jaw

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Trout fishing, Lake Lenore. 25 mph side wind. # 6 Bead-head bugger, back of the noggin. OUCH!!! Also, wearing shorts, little sturgeon, sharp buttons down the leg. OUCH !!!

Not to me personally, but here goes the horror story. I had the pleaseure of watching a guy land about a 5 pound Bluefish off Fort Pickens in Pensacola, FL about 15 years ago. He was using a hefty surface plug with 3 sets of treble hooks. Not sure why he did it, but he reached down and grabbed the body of the plug at which point the "Blue" began shaking its head in an effort to throw the lure. When it was all over, this guys hand looked like it went through a blender. Pressure dressings, a ride to the emergency room and a call to his wife to come pick him up was the best I could do for him. I didn't stick around to find out how many sutures it took. It sure would be interesting to see that hand today.

Last fall releasing a 15 lb chum buck,I was placing him back in the river when he gave me a parting shot,bleed like heck opened my index finger pretty good,so I ran back to the truck put some PVC glue(OUCH)to seal the cut, back to the river hooked a fish 2nd cast nice chum hen in the cooler
Pound for pound , these are my favs to catch CHUMS RULE!!!

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Years ago, got "bonked" in the mellon by my partner's pencil lead on his backcast...right on the side of my head.
No scars but I was knocked senseless for about half an hour. It was all I could do to stumble around in the shallows like an idiot the rest of the day. Though we both double over laughing now I couldn't quite see the humor that day. It's amazing how much 1 inch of pencil lead can hurt!

Two stories:
Once fishing with a guide on the Cowlitz, had 2 other guys in the boat with us boondogging, one of the guys hangs up on a branch just under the surface, he points the rod tip at the snag and pulls straight back. The leader broke at the knot under the swivel holding the pencil lead. The lead shot back straight at the guy and burried in his cheek up to the swivel. OUCH!
The other involved my best bud and fishing partner Steve. Anchored up on the Snoqualmie casting bait, I loaded up to make a cast and drilled him in the back, right between the shoulder blades with my offering. When it hit him, it made the loudest "THWACK" sound you ever heard. It broke the leader and gave my one of the biggest bird's nest I've ever seen. I tried to act like nothing happened and continued with my drift, without a leader and a softball sized bird's nest. Thank God, he was wearing 2 coats and never felt the hook! He still brings that up when we fish that drift...

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Once had a buddy, when we were in high school, who buried one hook of a treble, in his knee, well past the barb. As tough a guys as he was, he couldn't conceive of the idea of pushing the point back through the skin to clip it off. So, we drove back to town, to his dad's office whereby his dad, an ex-Marine, grabbed a pair of pliers and just yanked it out! OUCH!

Last winter, fishing the Cowlitz on a very cold day, my fishing partner made a cast arond a protruding branch just out of the river. It was one of those casts where you see the line wrap and weave around, kind of in slow motion. It was stuck good so he thumbs down as we drift by. CRACK! the line breaks. He sits down and says that hurt, that really hurt. I wasn't laughing that hard and went to hand him another pole. He says no it hurts. We use #10 black barrel swivels and one of these had gone through a fleece sweatshirt and turtle neck and was stuck into his arm.

A couple of years ago on the Hoh I hooked a nice king. I had all of my Kwik fish in a coffee can in the bottom of the boat, the coffee can happened to be sitting on top of my anchor rope. When I went to drop the anchor the can toppled over and one of the quick fish got caught in the rope and then drove a treble into the palm of my hand. My partner landed the fish and then we did the ole cut and push through. It still gives me shivers just thinking about it. All my plugs are now stored in organizers with lids and kept behind the seat.

Years ago an ER doctor told me about a guy bass fishin with a plug with a bunch of trebles on it. He was landing a fish and got a couple of the hooks stuck in his hand. So he goes back to his car to drive to the ER. On the way he sneezes and by habit put his hand over his face. That stuck one of the hooks thru his nostril. Guess he was a pretty sorry site by the time he got to the ER.

Got two of many here. Dull knife, two ten year old boys, ten pound test line, size 6 baitholder hook, and " here you hold the line, I'll cut it." Needless to say, size six in thumb past the barb, way past the barb. Next is small 22 inch sturgeon. Bare hand. In the process of release he nailed me. Fillet of palm. Good thing that at that size the sides are like razors. Nice clean cut and tiny scar. Oh, for those who have a knack at slicing and dicing, carry a tube of superglue and a small amount of rubbing alcohol. The glue can be used in an emergency after cleaning the cut. BE CAREFUL YOU DON'T GLUE YOUR FINGERS TO THE CUT!

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Well I have to join in on the fun!

I have two main..but many others:

When I was about 14 dad and I were fishing Silvers in the Satsop in our drift boat. I rip back to set the hook on a fish just as he was making a cast. Two of his trebles stuck in my forehead with fish on!! Dad calmly cuts his line at the swivel and says...lets get that fish landed!

This last winter fishing Sturg on the Cowlitz, I was baiting a hook...6/0 Gammie when the boy that was fishing with me slipped and that Gammie went in under the knuckle of my lift pointer finger, wrapped around the knuckle and never came out...longer story but suffice it to say that it still hurts thinkin about it.

Jim

Tony on the Pandad setting long line in a nasty gale off of Yakutat had a deckhand (his son no less) lose his grip and slipped into the bait chute got caught up inthe ground line and went over the stern into the blackness of the oceans depths forever. Not an uncommon ocurrence but it only happens once per. Does however put into perspective the minor pain and discomfort of a little hook piercing empathy.

native son, forgive my naivity, but did they get the deck hand back into the boat? or did he go down to the bottom, if so, i think that one is to sad to share on here.. ***schitzo***

About ten years ago I was fishing with a friend in his commercial troll boat off of the Oregon coast at Walport. I was driving the boat when I heard a yell. I ran back to find my friend holding his hand very tightly. If any of you know what a crabcutter is you will understand his pain. A crabcutter basically is a pair of scissors bolted open. They are placed on the downrigger cable with the intention of cutting any crabpot ropes that a boat might accidentally run into while in the open ocean. He ran the crabcutter across his open palm right in the pulley system. I learned that day that a lot of blood doesn't bother me. Yuck! I also got on the job training on how to run and put away a 42 foot fishing boat. Cool! Those boats only go about 10 knots so my challenge was to keep him awake for the long ride back to Newport. He still has some loss of feeling in that hand.

A funnier story was the time my best friend and I took our wives fishing for stocker trout. My wife put a roostertail in the cheek of my friend with her backcast. My friend was concentrating so hard,(because the girls were kicking our butts) that he didn't even take his eye off of his rod, he simply plucked it out and kept fishing. He had no other choice as the girls were laughing so hard they nearly peed their pants. Talk about adding insult to injury!!

Bank fishing with a friend who was attempting to "bite off" the loose knot end on a lure when I tripped over his rod and "set" the hook in his lip.

Schitzo, The line was hauled back and life is often sad. I guess in that the couple of dozen 12/0 cod hooks that had him tangled to the ground line didn't scar him they just kept him from breathing then may haps this was an inappropriate post.

On the lighter side, my dad had a pierced ear until his dying day because of me. I reared back with a mepps and nailed his earlobe dead center with one prong of the treble. I was ten at the time. It's one of the only time I ever heard him swear. (The other time was when I kicked open a bee nest when he was walking behind me).

lol, you crack me up spurdog..that was to funny.. ***schitzo***

Flipped a steelhead spoon over a limb. Was sure I could save it with a hardy yank. Saved my eyesight, instead, when I turned my head just before impact. The treble hook imbedded in my temple. It's hard to look "cool" with a spoon hanging from your hairline! Another scar story: I was showing my young son how powerful and dangerous a Wham-O slingshot could be. I loaded it with a marble-sized rock and announced my plan to completely pierce an aluminum can. Somewhere beyond full draw, one of the bands broke and the slingshot was torqued out of my hand and into my chin. I looked like I had been hit and bit by Mike Tyson. The copious loss of blood, emergency room trip, and half-dozen stitches that followed were far more impressive than a shot-through pop can. My son is thirty now and has never forgotten the "slingshot lesson". Fortunately, the instruction for 22's, shotguns, and deer rifles went better.