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Location: Iowa | I was doing some web surfing when I came across the website called www.myfishingpictures.com and found a veryinteresting picture. It shows some of the war wounds of this sport. Just curious if anyone else has some pictures of this nature they would like to share. The picture is of a sledge jerkbait embedded in a guys hand. This has only happened to me on one occasion on Clear Lake, IA when I put a topraider to the bone of my index finger on my right hand the day before I left for Eagle Lake
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Location: lansing, il | call me a sissy, id be cryin!!! |
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| I can feel your pain on that one! I landed a 45 incher from shore last september. When I went to remove the Cisco Topper, I lost control of the fish and it kicked its head up and burried the front treble hook into my right pointer and middle fingers! That wasn't fun since I'm right handed!!!! |
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| Not to sound sadistic, but he's lucky that it came all of the way through. One cut with a Nipex and back it right out, instead of a trip to the ER with a lure connected to you and having to have it cut out.
Either way....OWWIE!!!! |
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Location: lansing, il | i was thinkin the same thing beav! you could only hope somthing that bad could work out that good!! |
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Location: NeverNever Lake | Agree with Beav,,,,, If the barb is showin' , to the ER you ain't gowin' |
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| Let's pray he had Knipex with him, in that case no problem at all and just keep fishing! 
Edited by muskyboy 4/9/2005 12:05 AM
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| Two summers ago i was fishin on lac vieux desert and our motor broke down. we were on the other side of the lake and the wind was blowin us the way we didnt want to go. i dropped the anchor in and somehow a line got wrapped around the anchor rope. i dropped the anchor down and the hook on the end of the line went through the top of my finger and i could see the barb. i didnt want to pull it out so i clipped the piece of skin above it. that hurt pretty bad but i was mr tough guy back when i was 13. i had a fishing injury that i showed off that whole weekend we were camping |
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| Agree with Beav, it will hurt alittle but snip,snip and you are back fish`in. Its always a plus when you can bypass the hospital trip! |
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| Been there done that.Snip, back fishin'. Steve |
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Location: N.W. Ontario | I find that wounds like this hurt surprisingly very little, your body's defense mechanism kicking in I suppose. I've had one similiar to that pic and the worst was last summer, when all 3 trebles from a 9 inch grandma went into my forearm with a 25 inch pike attached, still not much pain, just panic from thinking that this pike is going to tear my arm open, luckily the pike ripped free. I'll try to dig up a pic of that one, if I can still find it. |
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Location: St. Louis, MO., Marco Is., FL, Nestor Falls, ON | After 50 years of muskie fishing and not ever impaling a hook in my body, in the last three years I have done it twice. The first time was the tail hook on a topraider deep into my thumb and the second time a bucktail buried in the palm of my hand near the base of my thumb. Both times the point of the hook was not visible. I just cut the hook, used my pliers and forced the hook all the way through and then grabbed the point and pulled it out. The only tough one was the one buried in my palm. I had to use my filet knive to slit my palm open to get the hook through. The skin ws just too tough to force it through. And you are right....little to no pain. Just rinsed it out, applied some antibiotic ointment and covered it with waterproof tape. Lucky I guess, no problems. The only way I would go to the ER is if the hook was buried into the bone and I couldn't dislodge it, or if it was in my face. The nearest ER is about 70 miles away. Maybe I should pinch the barbs down since this is getting to be a habit. I never thought of taking a picture, but I did save the removed hooks for a time. |
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Location: Minnetonka , MN. | As long as the barb came out it not bad. Also no fish on the bait. |
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Location: Pelican Lake/Three Lakes Chain | Only a group of musky fishermen could look at the picture and discuss how lucky that individual is (and he is). OUCH! |
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Location: Oregon | I have done it, and "yes" it does hurt, lol. Like an idiot I was once trying to adjust the weight of a bait I was building with the hooks in it. Well the drill press caught on the bait, spun it, and you know what happened next! I thought being the "manly man" that I am I could just pull it out........boy was I wrong! To the emergency I went with the huge bait hanging off my hand. The doc told me "I have pulled out dozens of hooks but that one is by far the largest", lol.
Jed
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Location: Chicago, Beverly | A friend of mine was Fishing with Al Nutty down at Kinkaid a few years ago. Caught his 1st Musky(a 42.5) and proceeded to try and unhook it himself rather then let the guide do it...Before Al could stop him, the fish thrashed and put a 5/0 through his middle finger, Musky hooked to lure on one end, finger on the other...nice... After the lure was unhooked from both ends Al was ready to head in thinking there was no way this guy was gonna continue fishing that day...nope, my friend was like give me a band aid and I'll be fine...no sense in going in if they are biting..lol.... |
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Location: minocqua, wi. | had one in my head and never had to leave the lake (LOTW) .... lucky to have a partner (the culprit) with the guts to send the hook the rest of the way through the meat so we could cut it off and keep fishing. my recollection of the brain surgery was wanting him to do it right away because my forehead was numb and then the part that hurt was the pressure from cutting the hook. once the anti-biotic and bandage was on, things were fine .... except for telling the guy not to feel bad about it. i honestly think it was tougher on him than me.
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Location: So. Illinois | I took the wife out with me shortly after I started muskie fishing a couple years ago. After giving her an in-depth lesson on casting (and a lesson on making sure the area is clear before casting), she lauched a side-arm cast with me desperatly trying to get out of the way. The 5/0 hook embedded itself as far as it could possible go in my upper right arm (through two levels of clothing). After cutting the hook (to leave as much left as possible) and getting my shirt and jacket off, I tapped it down and kept fishing. When we stopped for lunch, I iced it down for 30 minutes to numb it up a bit and made my wife remove the hook. We had to use a fillet knife to cut the skin because we could not push the hook through (too tough). I felt almost no pain because there are very few nerves where I got hooked (mostly fat). My wife nearly passed out but I told her since she didn't pay attention to what I had taught her, she had to fishing the job. She is much more aware of her surroundings now when we go out to the lake.
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Location: oswego, il | Add a fish to that lure and I have been there twice. No fun. Not sure why he traded out the hooks originally on the lure for the ones on it though. |
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| My dad took a Suick treble in the finger much like this photo several years back at Lake Webster. I had caught a small sub that was hooked incredibly bad and brought the fish aboard. He tried to hold it down and the fish trashed. Thankfully after he got hooked the fish didnt trash anymore and I had bolt cutters handy. |
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| Here's a story I posted a couple years ago. And A pic attached, I hope....
Two days ago I was fishing on my favorite remote musky waters in my 14' tiller drive boat. I was on a 300 acre flooded strip mine with a ton of standing timber, when I found myself in deep trouble.
I was using needlenose pliers to boatside release a lightly hooked 36-38" ski when the fish thrashed wildly and I suddenly found myself also hooked, badly, on the rear of a Poes Jackpot. One hook was buried to the shank over the lowest knuckle of my trigger finger. The hook tip was protruding almost 2" from where the hook entered the back of my hand. The fish started up again, and once the fish stopped thrashing, I finished unhooking the fish (somehow I never dropped the pliers!) and leaned back to take stock of my situation.
There was one other guy on the water, about 300 yards from me, and I thought maybe I should get help. I started the motor and began threading my way through the standing timber toward the other fisherman. At one point I put the motor in neutral and tried to pull the hook out, but it was too painful and the hook wouldn't budge. So I resumed my slow troll toward the other guy, again, threading my way through the trees. I suddenly began sweating, became light headed and I thought to myslef, "Jeeze, am I going to pass out?"
I woke up when I ran right smack into a tree trunk. I can recall the BOOM! sound very clearly. When I came to I was hanging over the right side of the boat, my head was in the water and I was dragging my right arm and hooked hand in the water. I think I was sliding over the side of the boat at the moment I hit the tree, but I can't recall for sure. The boat's impact may have thrown me forward and into the water, too. I didn't inhale any water but my head was all wet. I noticed I had traveled about 50 yards since I passed out, I was much closer to the other guy. I went a surprisingly long distance before I hit something, though I may have bounced off some trees before I woke up.
Passing out was the most dangerours part, by far, of my experience. Had I fallen in the water, had the lure hooked onto a passing tree trunk, had the lure hooked into my leg in the water, etc., I would have been in real bad trouble. Maybe/probably drowned. I should have put my life jacket on ASAP after releasing the fish.
I got close enough to call out to the other fisherman and he came over to help me. The first thing he did was cut the split ring so I was no longer dangling the entire lure from my hand. Looking back, I was too shocky to realize I needed to cut the hook away from the lure - I had been dangling the lure right along, even pull started the motor and shifted gears with that hand! Stowed away the trolling motor, too. Anyway, my new friend, Mike, followed me to the little landing and helped me load up the boat. I did the 30 minute drive to the hospital where it was decided that I was one of the worst hooked people they had ever encountered. They tried a lot of tools that were on hand, then gave up and sent an orderly to open up the maintence shed for the 2' bolt cutters. The ER doc had no trouble cutting the 3X hook with those. They gave me a ton of antibiotics and when I arrived home I ate a double dose of pain meds I had on hand. Called in sick the next day, hand swollen and throbbing. Today it's feeling much better, swelling is down and looks like I suffered no damage to nerves or tendons.
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Location: Stevens Point, WI | I see a lot of people come into the ER with hooks stuck in them, actually most of them are not muskie anglers. Most of the muskie anglers only come in if the barb is embedded and can't cut it. If the barb is embedded we simply inject a local and pull it out with a pair of pliers, nothing fancy about it. |
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Location: Athens, Ohio | I'll agree with Mr. Wild: You must be a musky nut if... you can look at this photo and thank God he can get the hook out without leaving his fishing spot! m |
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Location: Kawarthas, Ontario | I thought the pic at the top of the thread looked familiar - here's the original story from last years opener....
http://www.muskystriker.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1059&highlight= |
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Location: N.W. Ontario | Geez, so nasty looking wounds guys. Here's that pic I was talking about, this was taken at home two days after my trip. As was mentioned a few times in this thread, ony a muskie fisherman would keep going and not let something like this ruin a trip, I did the same, pushed each treble through, snip, disinfect and wrap the arm and keep fishing.
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