Hook in the arm yesterday
mastical
Posted 8/19/2012 8:21 AM (#579286)
Subject: Hook in the arm yesterday





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Location: Lake St Clair
How many of you had an accident like this happen?

It definitely was not fun. Should i file my barbs off or just bend them in?





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reelman
Posted 8/19/2012 8:24 AM (#579287 - in reply to #579286)
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Ouch! How did he cut that hook without a Knipix?
mastical
Posted 8/19/2012 8:26 AM (#579289 - in reply to #579286)
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Location: Lake St Clair
The ems cut the split ring with wire cutters and the ER folks used almost the same thing, a musky fisherman doctor cut the hook once they pushed it thru my skin.
ESOX Maniac
Posted 8/19/2012 8:42 AM (#579290 - in reply to #579286)
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Location: Mauston, Wisconsin
Had it happen on a flyin, and pulled the hook out myself. My fishing partner couldn't do it, said he felt like fainting. Had him hold my left hand solidly on a big rock, he closed his eye's & I pulled it out, I've been barbless on all the bigger stuff since. Whichever you like. I bend mine in, just make sure the tip of the barb is all the way bent in, the "bump" that's left helps them to stay in the fish better. But the advantage is obvious as its much easier unhooking either the fish or yourself.

Carry a first aid kit in the boat! Keep on fishing.

Ouch!
Al
Landry
Posted 8/19/2012 9:04 AM (#579294 - in reply to #579290)
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I once hooked myself very deeply. As deep as a 6/0 siwash hook can go into my forearm. The nurse had to pin my arm down with both knees on the hospital floor while the doctor pulled it out. It felt orgasmic when it came out. Couldn't pick up a tea cup next day but I went out fishing again straight from the hospital!!!!!

Hooked myself in my thumb this summer. About as bad as you did. I was alone and on holidays with my family ata cottage. I elected to pull it out myself with pliers. Tried a steady pull but it would not budge so i went with a very hard jerk. It actually came out relatively pain free.

Landry
muskyhunter47
Posted 8/19/2012 8:13 PM (#579423 - in reply to #579286)
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Location: Minnesota
it has not happened to me yet knock on wood. ive seen pictures of it thats as far as ive gotten looks like a pain in the arm to me. sorry for that one but i have to ask. how did it happen?what were you doing?
Pointerpride102
Posted 8/19/2012 8:22 PM (#579424 - in reply to #579286)
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Location: The desert
Had one in the palm of my hand a few years ago. Trip to the ER, nurse broke a small forceps trying to get it out. The look on her face when they broke was priceless. Asked me, "how big is this hook?!" Eventually got it out.
Jeremy
Posted 8/19/2012 8:40 PM (#579428 - in reply to #579286)
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Location: Minnesota.
Pinch 'em down flat!

I had a 6/0 Daiichi go thru my finger on a missed set-up pike fly fishing a few yrs back. Cussed a wee then just backed her back out firmly and stuck my finger in my mouth a bit and then went about fishing again.

That's a nasty looking stick given the loc and the barbs. Pinch 'em!
esox911
Posted 8/19/2012 9:06 PM (#579436 - in reply to #579428)
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Had a big treble taken out of the palm of my hand earlier this season. DOCTOR cut it off the shank--numbed up my palm and pushed it through. told me a good job on the sharpening as it went through nice and easy. I tried to pull it out myself but man those barbs just won't back out
Makintrax73
Posted 8/19/2012 9:46 PM (#579452 - in reply to #579286)
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Don Pursch has a hook removal video on Youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9F9LaJSvK-M

It would be interesting to hear if anyone has tried it? Looks like a reasonable method, but I'm hoping I never need to try it!
Fish 30acre
Posted 8/20/2012 12:26 AM (#579479 - in reply to #579286)
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ive learned that the body can heal very well and that doctor visits for me are for life or death only...

my hook up:
was wading a shallow river. caught a 34". no net. lifted the fish out of the water. still hooked, it flopped and dropped back into the water as the other treble hook caught my forearm. i was attached to the fish via the lure as the fish began trying to swim away. my buddy came over, grabbed the fish a second time out of the water. fish flopped and he dropped it back in the water. hooks dug in deeper. 3rd attempt, i death clutched the fish with my good arm as my buddy got the hooks off the fish. she swam away. hooks deep in my forearm, we drive to another buddies. they finally cut the wire of the hook, leaving the point deep within my arm past the barb. they took turns trying to force the hook point out the other end. my skin was literally stretched out two inches without the hook point being able to pierce thru. finally got a razor blade to make my own exit hole. game over. not much fun.
milje
Posted 8/20/2012 6:35 AM (#579491 - in reply to #579286)
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Location: Wakefield, MI
I've never got one before, I did pierce my buddies ear with a spinnerbait when he walked behind me on a cast once though. He said cutting that hook was the loudest thing he's ever heard


My dad got a small treble hook under the finger nail once, that couldn't have felt good at all. Had to push it through and cut it off.
MACK
Posted 8/20/2012 8:13 AM (#579508 - in reply to #579286)
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Back when I was younger, probably 12 years old...give or take, me and two cousins of mine, motored nearly all the way to the opposite end of the lake from our camp, probably a good 8 miles from our camp. 14 foot aluminum fishing boat with a whopping 8hp tiller of the back. I was driving. Got to the spot we wanted to fish. Those two started casting immediately. I grab my rod to see that someone had taken pliers and clamped shut a rubber-core weight to my line. Nice. Got out my knife to try and wedge open the weight, as I was too anxious to bother to simply just cut the line and rety. The other two were already fishing for cryin' out loud! I couldn't let one of them get the first fish!

Started to work on that weight with the knife, then comes the big speedboat, drivin' by with the stereotypical clueless blonde driving, pulling a tuber and she narrowly misses us by maybe 20 yards and throws this HUGE wake right at us and we go for a helluva ride. Needlesstosay, I was still working on that weight with the knife, holding the rubber-core weight in my left hand between my index finger and left thumb, and yeaup, you guessed it...the wake hit the boat and the knife slipped: sliced my left index finger to the bone between the two knuckles and sliced off the tip of my thumb. Oddly enough. I just calmly told the other two to "Reel 'em up! Time to go!" They both looked back at me dumbfounded and confused like "What the heck? We just got here!" I held up my hand, pouring the blood and they knew instantly what was going on. That big 'ole 8hp tiller took it's own sweet time getting us back to the camp 8 miles away. The entire back end of the boat, the bottom was covered in blood by the time we arrived. Got stitched up by my uncle at the kitchen table. 10 total stiches...four in the index finger and 6 to do what he could with the tip of my thumb. Wrapped it up, went back out fishing.

Last Fall, took a Double Cow Girl treble hook with one of it's hooks through the cuticle of my left middle fingers's fingernail, right at the base of the finger nail. Went through so fast, so clean with such sharp hooks...didn't really even feel it happen till the bait was swinging from my hand and noticed that wasn't quite right. Saw that it was coming all the way through...the point of the hook poking through the opposite side of the finger. I knew there was no way in h_ll I was going to back that one back through with the barb buried in the middle of the finger. I didn't even bother to try. Boat partner took one look at that situation...big 300 lb dude....he nearly fainted. Blurts out "OH...you're going to the hospital for that one." I respond..."No I'm not." He wouldn't take a picture for me...he didn't want to look at it any more than he had to. I just grabbed the pliers and pushed the hook the rest of the way through to get the barb out past the skin. Then took the hook cutters and cut off the barbed end of the hook and simply backed out the rest of the hook the opposite way it went in. Minimal blood. Really didn't even hurt all that much. Kept fishing the rest of that evening, then we went in to watch the Bears football game and I sat and soaked that finger in a shotglass full of good Vodka to clean it out.

Moral of the story: Make sure you're all up to date on your Tetnis Shots! Rusty, steal hooks can lead to big problems if you don't.

Edited by MACK 8/20/2012 8:15 AM
ToothyCritter
Posted 8/20/2012 9:57 AM (#579529 - in reply to #579286)
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Location: Roscoe IL
Took one in the thumb, yeah it's not a fun deal..


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Jim Muskie
Posted 8/20/2012 11:30 AM (#579569 - in reply to #579286)
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Location: West Haven, UT
Took one to the face a few years back. My wife took the step by step pictures of me getting the 6/0 hook out.


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ChadG
Posted 8/20/2012 1:01 PM (#579593 - in reply to #579286)
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I had a mishap this summer with some rods. I grabbed one rod and five came off the wall with it. The bottom one with the Sledge on it hooked into the top of my forearm and of course all the others hooked it and was one tangled mess hanging from me. With five rods hanging off my arm I was kind of screwed for a minute. I untangle everything not hooked to my arm and then pulled the hooks out of my forearm. Luckily I pinch barbs down on all of my hooks so I just pulled the hooks out no worse for the wear.
esoxlazer
Posted 8/20/2012 1:18 PM (#579598 - in reply to #579286)
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Location: Lino Lakes, MN
I've only gotten it once, and luckily it went straight through the web between my thumb and pointer finger so I didn't have to push anything through. I fish with my brothers a lot and I'm always the prepared one, so I try to think ahead on what I would do if one of us got hooked badly. I've seen a similar method to the video that was posted above where you wrap the line and give it a quick snap-jerk, but I don't know if I would have the guts to do it...I'm afraid that I'd screw it up and bury the hook deeper or cause someone an incredible amount of pain and still have a hook in them. Anyone ever tried that method? Has it worked for you? Oddly enough, the worst fishing injury I've seen wasn't from a hook, but a splitshot. My cousin got snagged and was yanking on the line trying to break it...the line broke, but the splitshot came back and lodged in his eye and blinded him in that eye. Taught us all a great lesson that sunglasses are for more than just blocking the sun.
Jeremy
Posted 8/20/2012 1:56 PM (#579611 - in reply to #579286)
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Location: Minnesota.
I"m gonna get sick reading this thread...
chipvet
Posted 8/20/2012 4:13 PM (#579649 - in reply to #579286)
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Had one in my finger a few years ago. The hook was in the finger and to make matters worse a 42 inch musky was still hooked. Ouch, that hurt. I cut the hook in the spot of the video and then unhooked the fish, measured her and let her go. I then went to the resort bar an a guy said he saw someone do it; a doctor was also in there and he said go to the hospital. I choose the guy who saw this done. He did it just like the video and it worked great and was out in a second, no pain. I bought the guy a beer, put a bandaid on and went back to fishing. I caught two more muskies when I would have been at the hospital wasting a hot bite. I had my tetnis shot shortly before this so infection was not an issue. It works!
mastical
Posted 8/20/2012 5:09 PM (#579672 - in reply to #579423)
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Location: Lake St Clair
muskyhunter47 - 8/19/2012 8:13 PM

it has not happened to me yet knock on wood. ive seen pictures of it thats as far as ive gotten looks like a pain in the arm to me. sorry for that one but i have to ask. how did it happen?what were you doing?


Sorry i don't have a cool story but when i was cleaning out the boat once we trailered it i threw a rope in the front compartment and got hooked. I had about 7 lures hanging on the front near the trolling motor, like on the cover of the rollie and helens catalog book. My wife just complained that i had baits everywhere on the front deck. Should have listened!

I was always like ill never get hooked, that didnt last long.
mastical
Posted 8/20/2012 5:17 PM (#579673 - in reply to #579569)
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Location: Lake St Clair
Jim Muskie - 8/20/2012 11:30 AM

Took one to the face a few years back. My wife took the step by step pictures of me getting the 6/0 hook out.


Did you hook yourself or a partner?
honkermusky
Posted 8/20/2012 5:48 PM (#579683 - in reply to #579286)
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Location: SE Wisc and Vilas County
ouch!!!
brales17
Posted 8/21/2012 11:04 AM (#579869 - in reply to #579286)
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fast forward to about a minute in. yikes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMK-M2rTX5M
Sam Ubl
Posted 8/21/2012 11:30 AM (#579872 - in reply to #579286)
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Location: SE Wisconsin
Tricky situation the other day..

My brother in-law put a 43" in the net and with both jaws pinned shut by the lower treble, the only option was to cut the hooks. In doing so, the fish thrashed and managed to get the top treble stuck high in the bag near the rim. Now with the muskie's head out of water and in an awkward position, I asked him to quick remove the hook from the bag so the fish could lay back in the net. No sooner did he remove the hook the fish thrashed again and drove one barb into my arm and another through his middle knuckle of his pointer finger and out near the bottom knuckle, all while still connected to the fish. Both in pain and with the fish still attached, we had to act fast. I told him to try to rip the shank from my arm and I'd then quick cut the hook that was in his finger so we could lower the fish back into the bag before things got worse. All in all, it took maybe 10 seconds of precision. He manned up and somhow got the hook out of my arm, which was not completely buried to the point of no return, meanwhile the next shank over still in his finger. I then reached over with my left arm and cut the hook with the knipex and lowered the fish. He then pulled the hook through his skin, which was a little gnarly, and I cut the hooks from the fish.

After a quick photo and healthy release, he sat down, slammed a beer, stood back up, changed out his lure and within 10 casts later caught a 50"! No troubles with that one

A lot of "firsts" on this trip. Notice his bloody finger as he points at the fish that did a number on us.

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Fish 30acre
Posted 8/21/2012 12:39 PM (#579889 - in reply to #579286)
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from my post earlier...


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twells
Posted 8/21/2012 4:14 PM (#579922 - in reply to #579286)
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Location: Hopefully on the water
Took a topraider to the thigh about 13 years ago. It was the last time my wife Musky fished with me (by her choice). that was a trip to the hospital. I couldn't push that one through. Then a couple of years later I grazed a undertaker across the top of my head on a cast. Luckily it didn't stick but grazed it good that the scare is still there.
Fishwizard
Posted 8/21/2012 10:34 PM (#580024 - in reply to #579286)
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I joined the club just over a week ago. 5/0 All because I forgot the net. I know I cut the hook too short, but when I was pinned to a 40" I wanted free as soon as possible. It didn't hurt much until the ER Doc decided to start pushing it through without numbing it yet. I still don't have full range of motion without pain.


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hawkeye9
Posted 8/22/2012 6:54 AM (#580065 - in reply to #580024)
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Location: Perryville, MO
I, too, can say with first hand experience that the method Don demonstrates in the video works. I haven't had the need to use it with a muskie-sized hook, but have with a bass crank and seen others do the same. Truly works. It takes a brief moment of confidence (alot I suppose for a deeply buried 8/0) as you need to give the looped line a reasonable quick jerk. I know at least one ER doc who also uses the method.
Sam Ubl
Posted 8/22/2012 8:55 AM (#580091 - in reply to #579922)
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Location: SE Wisconsin

twells - 8/21/2012 4:14 PM Took a topraider to the thigh about 13 years ago. It was the last time my wife Musky fished with me (by her choice). that was a trip to the hospital. I couldn't push that one through. Then a couple of years later I grazed a undertaker across the top of my head on a cast. Luckily it didn't stick but grazed it good that the scare is still there.

Funny, same thing happened to me. My wife had a blow up on a Top Raider and I can still remember the sound of the tail whizzing through the air before it hit me in the back of the calf. In through the jeans, through the skin, back out the skin and then again through the jeans. I didn't feel any pain at all and though it was just through the jeans so I reached down and tried ripping it out.. It actually took a minute to realize it was through my skin, too. She still throws that same TR, but even today she still feels bad about it. I told her let's cut the prick out and get back to fishing!

Guest
Posted 8/22/2012 11:12 PM (#580301 - in reply to #579286)
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don't go the the hospitals for a lil thing like that!
next time do that,it's pretty easy and it will not ruin your day on the water

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrtDIYuyOo8&feature=player_embedded#...


BuckeyeAl
Posted 8/23/2012 7:57 AM (#580336 - in reply to #579286)
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I did it yesterday while taking surgical tubing off of some hook points.


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Posted 8/23/2012 8:07 AM (#580339 - in reply to #580301)
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duplicate poet


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