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Location: Wis. Rapids, WI | Hey guys, I’m in the process of a new medical / first-aid article. What I need are some photos of fishing injuries, such as hooks in hands, fingers, head, etc… I’m hoping someone has a photo or two of a cut hand, finger from a tooth or gills.
I’d like to see what you got. I’m also asking for permission to use your photo if I choose it. So understand, if you post a photo you are giving me permission to use it if chosen. Who’s ever photo I choose will have credit for the photo.
Thanks,
Todd
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| heres one. my wife. Hooks in her forehead.
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Location: Chicago | Wow for having a hook in her head, she looks pretty happy! |
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| Here's an intro to piercings??? LOL... there was something posted a while back with an eye injury that lookes pretty ickey... Be careful... Don't break the toy! |
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| Todd, there was a thread about a year or two ago on this very subject. There were several very cool shots of hooks where they weren't supposed to be! I think maybe Ranger started it. Capt Extreme had one a couple weeks ago with a hook in the eye.
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Location: Minnesota | Not sure if you can use these photos permission wise but heres the link and maybe you can PM those people with the pics.
http://muskie.outdoorsfirst.com/board/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=28...
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Location: Muskoka Ontario,Canada | Here's mine...
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Location: Belleville, WI | silver lining - I was only hooked in the thumb.
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| Oh my....the hook in the forehead is really getting to me. WOW! |
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| Here's my hooked hand. The red dot you see up toward the knuckle is where the hook point came out while the upper 30"s fish and I were fighting over the same Poes Giant Jackpot. And the ER doc had to force the hook point out that same hole far enough to get a small set of bolt cutters under the barb. You have my permission to use the photo.
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| hmmm, i have a couple
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Location: Indiana | heres my mistake, only a bass hook, but there was a fish on the other end for a while. Ouch
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Location: Rhinelander. | ouch!!!!!!!!my eyes are watering now....
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Location: Anchorage | This is what happens when the bite is slow and baits start getting tossed around. One of only 2 in the box that aren't barbless for this very reason.
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Location: Wis. Rapids, WI | WOW, some great photos. Ranger, I think you got the best one.
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Location: Madison, WI | Ah found mine... Not as bad as a muskie hook, but still wasn't the most pleasurable experience of my life.
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| Aw shucks. Here's my hooked hand story from a few years ago
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.
I had the presence of mind to take my 35mm camera into the hospital with me so there's a visual record of that part of the deal. My wife says she got a great shot of the doctor using the big bolt cutters to finally cut the hook. I'll post some pics in a few days.
A pretty close call, wouldn't you say? Today I'm buying new LONG-ASS needlenose pliers and some really good bolt cutters. Maybe some welding gloves, too. I'm going back to netting all my bigger fish and removing the hooks while the fish is in the laying in the net on the bottom of the boat. Screw the boatside release technique I've been trying to master. (Sorry, Jason, I tried.)
You folks who hold up big muskies with the lures still in the fish's mouth should take heed of my experience. Can you imagine a big fish slapping you in the face or chest or neck with a Poes Giant Jackpot, Believer or Suick? I sure as $hit can.
By the way, that was the third fish of the outing! I hope to get back as soon as I can handle a rod again, maybe day after tomorrow. [:bigsmile:]
What do you think of my close call? I used to think I was pretty careful while fishing alone all the time, but I'm going to be changing my ways a bit.
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| my first and hopefully last mistake
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Location: Mauston, Wisconsin | Todd- I wish I had a photo for you. At the time a photo was the last thing on my mind, let's just say it wasn't pretty. Definitely extremely painfull! One word! "Barbless". You take a serious risk w/ barbed hooks & muskies, i.e., they can go nuts anytime you're handling them. If you're alone like Ranger, it could be extremely dangerous.
If you've ever been hooked up to a fish, you can appreciate what it's like. For those of you brave souls that haven't been there yet, if it hapoens to you -you will definitely question why you've been using barbed hooks.
I know that if I get hooked up again, I can pull the hook without any further damage. Losing fish because of going barbess? I'll bet my in-the-net percentages are as good or better than yours.
Why? Because most of the time when you pinch the barb down properly it forms a bump. This bump acts similarlly to a barb, i.e., it helps hold the hook in. Is it as effective as a barb? Nope! But, I don't think that's a big factor if you are playing the fish correctly.
Todd- Thank you for embarking on writing this article, I know it will save a "vacation of a lifetime" or two, or even a life........! Just had to throw this in! Yep! "Firefighters/EMT's like Todd know you had better be prepared for the unexpected!" This is especially true of muskie fishing, i.e., sh!t happens! Can't wait to see the final article
OK- I'm off my soap box. It's your choice!
Have fun!
Al
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Location: Athens, Ohio | I e-mailed you some from my work account, did you get them? m |
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Location: Downers Grove, IL | Here one from last summer.
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Location: Medford, WI | Oooh man...that one sure is ugly-looking. Not the most sever, but just the skin being all scrunched up with the barb all the way thru. Probably easier that the barb was all the way through!!! Thank God none of this has happened to me yet...even though I must credit this thread to a very realistic dream I had two nights ago! Didn't realize I didn't have two hooks in my foot until I got up and walked....bad dream!!!
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| My little sister a while back left her tackle box out and my dog knocked it over and got a jerk bait stuck in her foot and she went to try to flip it off and got it right in her ear so she was hog tied to her ear by the lure luckly my dad was there and cut the hooks off but dog still had to go to pet emergency!!!!! |
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Location: Muskoka Ontario,Canada | Poor thing!
I saw a cat with a bucktail in it's mouth when I was a kid. I felt so bad for it! I'm a pet lover and I'm soooo careful to keep my baits out of reach of my two cats. |
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| my dog soon after became deaf not related to that accident, but she is 11 years old and is like a kid in the candy store 24/7 |
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Location: Janesville | Todd I believe I have one of you some where with a slippery sam i you rearend. If I am right it was at the world hunt and beth took the picture. I will have look for it when I get back from the bahamas Leave thursday morning and going fishing. Matt |
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