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| Since the topic is up, 'hookings' have happened quite a few times to me, but here is my worst one yet. My client's fish shook my Bondy Bait free at the surface and all 7 oz of it came flying 100 mph at me as I had both hands of the net. I guess my hands protected it from my face.
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| wow i posted the other video
Big Head Shake Hooks My Finger, BAD!
But that is nothing compared to this.
That Bondy dosent make a nice wrist watch thats for sure.
Ouch.
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Location: Central WI | Sheesh...nice sharp hooks... |
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| If that ain't reason enough to go barbless, I don't know what is! |
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| I caught a 3 - 4 lb. pike and when I went to unhook the fish it started to thrash and since they are so slimy the pike came loose from my grip and the treble hooks pierced the palm of my hand. Of course the pike didn't want to lay still while I tried to unhook myself. The pike got revenge on me and thrashed around violently. It was a rather painful event. Learned my lesson to never fish without gloves and to always have cutters. While at the ER the doctor told me about someone who got hooked in the eyeball with a musky lure. She said how it happened was the fisherman were casting opposite directions and the lure caught the eyeball as he was casting. She said he had to be life flighted to Minneapolis.
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| Jon, I'm seeing a marketing opportunity for you here....the "Bondy Bandage!" I think you'd have a pretty good market for those after some of the pictures I've seen. I know Ranger has some gruesome shots of hooks through his hand somewhere too. |
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| I'm just gald my face was spared! |
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| Oh man, that makes me cringe just looking at it! |
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Location: Mallard Island Lake Vermilion MN | Totaly Cool!
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Location: N.FIB | makes the job title `fishing guide` sound so much better,NOT |
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| That sucks dude, I also had a pike that thrashed just as I was about to unhook it in the net, It stabed me with 1 good treble and unfortunately the net was hooked between the treble hook and my hand. Here I am holding this pike upright like I was going to take a picture of it and the big frabill stuck inbetwen. At the time never thought to take a picture like that. |
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Location: Sawyer County, WI | I had a 42 incher thrash on me whie I was unhooking it. It was powerful enough to bury one deep in me, and the real downside was that both the fish and I were still attached to the Pacemaker. I was seeing stars.
Needless to say, having the Knipex within reach was a Godsend. Bummer the hooks weren't a bit sharper as it would likely have gone clean through the finger. If you look closely you can see the hook poking the skin out a bit from the inside.
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Ouch |
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| I've had the 'opportunity' multiple times over the years to remove hooks from various appendages. dfkiii's picture is a perfect example of how/where to cut the hook to free it. Never cut the hook near the entry point. After coming across a great hook removal kit and meeting the Dr who created it I am a firm believer in yanking them and not cutting and pushing through. Google Dr Fishhook to find the kits, comes with everything you need including a 'tag' to scan with your smart phone for a quick on the water how to video. You'll always see a smile on my face when a boat pulls up with an angler holding a bloody hand followed by the 'your a fireman right?????' From my experiences a lot of hook sticks come from 30"-36" musky & pike, the 'little ones' we think we can quickly and easily unhook and release.
Kevin
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| My first went like this...one evening in the dead of winter i was spending a few hours in my garage sharpening dozens of trebles waiting for spring to arrive. i just finished up and walked through the door into the house and it hit me that i forgot something in the garage. went back into the garage and of course i didn't slip my shoes back on as i went in. two steps in i felt a felt a "needle" square in the middle bottom of my right foot and knew what it was without even looking...of course it was 1/3 of a freshly sharpened 5/0 buried to the shank! i hobbled back into the house and "worked" on it for quite a while before i realized a drive to the emergency room was in order. needless to say the added pain i caused by my "digging" around trying to get it out of my RIGHT foot made the 30 minute drive seem much longer. it's now 2:00 AM as i am walking on the side of my foot thru the entrance to the e.r. and sat down in the chair in front of the intake window. when the young lady asked why i was there i said nothing but lifted my foot up and set the back of my heel on the counter in front of her so she could clearly see my "issue". the first words out of her mouth were...is that what i think it is? just about the same time one of the e.r. docs happened to be walking by and did a double take and simply said...ouch! they weren't busy and i went straight into the back where the doc and a nurse took a closer look and they didn't bother to try to hide their snickers as they asked me...exactly how did this happen?
after sticking the wound area with a pain killer, which to this day i think caused more pain than i was already in, believe it or not they a good 15 minutes looking around the immediate area and could find absolutely nothing heavy duty enough to cut through the hook with! i looked at the doc and asked him to call the hospital maintenance dept and check if they had any bolt cutters! 5 minutes later one of the maintenance men walked into the e.r. room with a pretty big pair of bolt cutters stating...it's the smallest we have. the three of them went to work and i was out the door in about 20 minutes.
the second time came the following summer on a hot summer day out with my better half and her daughter. since they don't fish they got pretty bre after about 4 hours of me chucking baits in the same huge cove so i gave in and decided to troll which by the way i absolutely hate to do! it wasn't an hour later when one of the rods screemed and 5 minutes later a 40 or so inch pesky northern came to the net. instead of getting the one and only treble from the depth raider that was in the snout of the fishes mouth out first (which i had always done 100% of the time before lifting them out until this fish) i lifted it out and spun around and sat down for a quick picture. the snake gave a quick shake and before i knew it it was at my sandled feet squirming around and of course one of the other remaining two points of that treble went right threw the meaty part of my big toe down to the shank! after getting a death grip around the back of its' head on the floor of the boat i asked my better half, which of course was now squealling along with her daughter at the top of her lungs with the blood and all that was everywhere, to hand me the bolt cutters and long nose pliers. i then cut through the 1/3 of the treble that was attached to the fish and dropped it overboard which gave me the room i needed to work on one of the other points of the same treble that was in my toe. now came the easy part, after learning my lesson the hard way after the e.r. visit a few months back, since that day i grind the barbs off of every hook on every bait before it gets into my boat and the hook simply came back out of my toe the way it went in using a pair of pliars! after that was over with i got the...i guess we have to leave now...from both of them and of course my answer was...maybe the muskies will start going now too and we fished for another few hours. for those who just can't see using barbless hooks just think about it, that northern stayed pinned on that barbless hook while it was attached to my toe...why...because i kept the proper tension on it and didn't give it any slack 
happy holidays and a great muskie year to all !
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| A word from those in the know.....Take your hook removal tools to the ER when you go. They won't have Knipex to cut the hook after they push it through. They have to get pliers from the janitor. I took mine along last time and made things easier. The I donated my extra pair of Knipex to the ER. |
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Location: Minnetonka | Holy smokes, Bondy that is sick. Here's one from '08.
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| Saw the results of Lambeau catching a 7/0 in the thigh near his junk. Didn't look like much fun to me. |
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Location: St. John, Indiana | here's mine from a summer bass fishing adventure
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