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Kayak Fishing Zone => Safety First => Topic started by: rustic andy on October 01, 2006, 10:14:01 AM

Title: hook-n-squid eye
Post by: rustic andy on October 01, 2006, 10:14:01 AM

I was out alone (as usual), fishing N of San Simeon (as usual) and was playing with the schools of blue rockfish, with the olives mixed in.  You know when the mixed schools come to your yak, you can target the big olives by looking for their striped backs?  Has anyone else ever tried this?  Anyway, they were hitting the leadhead jig 2 feet off my port side time and time again right at the surface, like a trout on a fly.  One guy decided to release it right at the surface, and he (in reality I) managed to launch all of my terminal tackle into my eye and it stuck there.  I reached up and gently felt around a could tell that the hook was in my eyelid, but not up to the barb (I was soo00 lucky :smt003 :smt003 :smt003) I gently slid it out and tried to wash the squid out of my eye.  I finished out the day with my good eye, and gradually gained back the focus in the besquidded eye over a two week period. 

Wear your sunglasses kids!

Rustic Andy

Title: Re: hook-n-squid eye
Post by: Seabreeze on October 01, 2006, 11:15:58 AM

Yowch!  Sunglasses.....check......... :smt009

Title: Re: hook-n-squid eye
Post by: jselli on October 12, 2006, 01:34:23 PM

OUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :smt012

jason

Title: This will make you sqeamish!!!
Post by: polepole on October 12, 2006, 02:28:05 PM

Yes, sunglasses good ...

-Allen

Title: Re: hook-n-squid eye
Post by: ChuckE on October 12, 2006, 03:04:55 PM

Damn it.... that image is going haunt me forever.

Title: Re: hook-n-squid eye
Post by: bluefin17 on October 12, 2006, 04:59:16 PM

Wow, how about a warning before pictures like that.

Title: Re: hook-n-squid eye
Post by: sackyak on October 12, 2006, 08:54:20 PM

Shewaow .....my eyes are watering after that!

Title: Re: hook-n-squid eye
Post by: SBD on October 21, 2006, 05:16:51 AM

DISTURBING photo...wearing glasses 24/7 from now on!!!

Title: Re: hook-n-squid eye
Post by: FishinJay on October 24, 2006, 03:18:16 PM

Hey, that's my favorite trout lure!  :smt003

Title: Re: hook-n-squid eye
Post by: MolBasser on October 26, 2006, 08:23:20 AM

I did that once before as a kid.  I had a roostertail tossed into a bush.  I yanked and yanked to get my lure back.  Well, I got it back all right.  It shot straight to my face, and only by the grace of God did I shut my eye in time.

I ran screaming back to camp, sure I had a lure in my eye, but it was just lightly hooked to my eyelid.  I was very lucky.

MolBasser

Title: Re: hook-n-squid eye
Post by: PISCEAN on October 26, 2006, 09:32:29 AM

gAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!
 :smt010

Title: Re: hook-n-squid eye
Post by: scubamike1974 on October 26, 2006, 09:38:26 AM

That is why I stay off the banks where the combat fishing is going on like Feather River afterbay. Too dangerous.

Title: Re: hook-n-squid eye
Post by: Usagi on October 26, 2006, 05:05:11 PM

GAH!

Pirates might be cool and all, but I'm gonna continue to wear my sunglasses just the same... :glasses9:

Title: Re: hook-n-squid eye
Post by: yakinGal on November 01, 2006, 12:13:53 PM

 :smt017 I guess my question is, did you not see the hook coming back at you?  Or did it just happen so fast that you didn't have time to react?  :scratch:

Mary

Title: Re: hook-n-squid eye
Post by: Bigfoot on November 08, 2006, 03:07:51 PM

 Allen thanks for the photo. I will show it to Ty as soon as he gets home from school. being 15 and bullet proof I know my words go in one ear and out the other. Great teaching aid. I can see him jumping and squirming in my minds eye right now. Hopefully the guy healed oK. Randall

Title: Re: hook-n-squid eye
Post by: Bigfoot on November 11, 2006, 08:34:55 AM

 Polepole. It looks like that guy had more then a hook in the eye problem. His eyebrow is split wide open. what were the other injuries from. Did his wife beat him with his own pole?  Randall

Title: Re: hook-n-squid eye
Post by: Tote on November 11, 2006, 09:51:42 AM

After seeing that photo I might be wearing my welding shield when I go out!!!!!!!!!!
Gonna make sure I have a pair of glasses for cloudy days as well.

Title: Re: hook-n-squid eye
Post by: polepole on November 11, 2006, 06:28:45 PM

I have no idea who this is a photo of or what the story behind it is.  It was recently posted on another site, actually a whole series of photos, but I posted the "best" one.

-Allen