weird fishing injuries

have you folks heard of any really weird fishing injuries? i have been stabbed by spines, hooks and smal things but i know a guy who said he was going to put away a filet knife in the sheath and jabbed it through one of his cheeks! dang that has got to hurt. nothing like an ass filet. i thought that injury was real weird. that can be deadly!

Keep track of your circle hooks, I let one get away and it lodged in my buttcheek

Trying to get that thing out offshore on a sot was quite the delicate operation Once they're in they're pretty hard to remove and it made me wonder why everyone complains about having to fish with them

I remember Dave getting "spined" by a rockfish and he had to go to the Hospital as soon as he got out of the water - I believe his neck was swelling really bad 

 Dave....time to chime in buddy 

The problem was that he had a variety of rockfish on his stringer and did not know which one gave him the allergic reaction - that's when he started using the puncture proof gloves - sold at cabelas.

http://www.cabelas.com/cabelas/en/templates/pod/standard-pod.jsp?_DARGS=/cabelas/en/common/catalog/pod-link.jsp_A&_DAV=search&rid=&indexId=cat90002&navAction=pop&navCount=1&parentType=&parentId=&id=0030689

I bought one myself and lipped a small ling cod with it......it worked!

I stuck myself with a gopher rockfish spine while cleaning it.  The wound didn't heal and after 2 weeks I cut it open and extracted a 1/4 piece of rockfish spine from it.

Once I was endoed in the surf practicing at bean hollow and held the paddle over my head supposedly to clear it from me, but I went in head first and smacked myself just under the eye with the handle.  Got a slight black eye from that one.

i almost forgot, one day fishing from the capitla rental boat i was with my wife and i was so excited that a fish wa biting i went to set the hook real quick and smacked my four eye glasses sideways. that hurt too. i almost busted my glasses! man, i can sure be a real fool sometimes. ok, maybe all the time.  i know my wife was trying so damn hard not to laugh too.

i should carry extra glasses actually. i might acidentally drop a pair and end up paddling to hawaii or something. "gee, it didnt take that long to get out here, how come its takin forever to get back?"

While trout fishing early in the morning with my sone I bent down to put a fish on the stringer and I got wacked on my frozen ears by my son Riley's spiderman rod when I turned around to give him a whoopin he was battling a monster trout 4lbs I think so he didnt really mean it.

While trout fishing early in the morning with my sone I bent down to put a fish on the stringer and I got wacked on my frozen ears by my son Riley's spiderman rod when I turned around to give him a whoopin he was battling a monster trout 4lbs I think so he didnt really mean it.

  that is way too funny!!!!!

Pier fishing w/ my dad in San Clemente.  He hooks up a big ray - his first ever salt water beastie.  We were both real excited and I was looking down the side of the pier over his rod to get a look at it.  At that same time the ray makes a dive, my Dad rears back, the line snaps and I got hit in the face with his rod.  I had to go to work the next day with a pronounced red welt from my eye to jawline and a big black eye.

I jabbed my knuckle all the way down to the bone with a spine on a vermillion. It felt like my knuckle was on fire. My finger swelled up and I couldnt bend it for a couple of hours. It took almost 2 weeks for the thing to go back to normal. It looked like I had broken it. Hopefully never do that again.

I remember Dave getting "spined" by a rockfish and he had to go to the Hospital as soon as he got out of the water - I believe his neck was swelling really bad 

 Dave....time to chime in buddy 

Yep, 2 years ago this July I was fishing by myself out of Davenport.  Had a decent day, that included getting spiked by a gopher, and bleeding a good bit (not as bad as Sean down in Mexico though).  Felt a little flush loading things up in the truck, and even more wierd as I drove over the hill back to San Jose.  Got home, collapsed into a sofa, and faced some pretty strange looks from my wife.  My face was starting to swell up, and could feel it in my neck as well.  Decided it would be wise to make a visit to the nearest ER.  Once there, they pumped me up with benadryl, and put me on a nebulizer as some asthma was kicking in.  They kept me there for over an hour, and when the MD came and checked on me again, he didn't recognize me, as the swelling when I walked in had warped my good looks so much.

Went out the next week, and I swear I got stabbed by another gopher, without any reaction.  This was with an epi pen sitting in the truck.  My gut tells me that I was probably more susceptible the prior week, perhaps due to fatigue, exposure to other allergens (e.g.: pollen), and less due to the type or toxicity of the fish, but who knows.

Now I do carry the Cabela's gloves, as well as the orange fish gripper they sell.

-- Dave

I have heard of folks have real bad reactions to getting spined...DAMN Dave that is a dooozy! 

Last season I managed to BURY a 5/0 siwash past the barb into my palm and there was no getting it out.  I pulled so hard my palm was lifting up about 3/8 of an inch... ...it hurt REAL bad.  I kept pulling on it until the barb erupted through my palm and then we cut the little flap of skin between the shank and the barb with a fillet knife and I was free.  My palm was throbbing like crazy.  Since the hook went straight from a rockies mouth to my palm I was freaking out about infection.  We cleaned the heck out of it when I got home and it was good to go in just a ffew days, but it was sore for quite some time. It gave me a first hand experience of the trauma associated with C&R!

This isn't as good a story as those above, and I'm sure it has happened to lots of you abalone guys, but I was abbing with some friends near Mote Creek on a calm day.  I had just found a nice ledge with some huge abs on it.  I was going down for my third and a rogue set of wave came in and bashed my head against the rock.  It was hard enough to actually cross my eyes for a bit, I hate to think how bad it would have been had I not been wearing a 7mm hood.  Anyways that was the largest limit of abs I've ever gotten.  One just shy of 11 inches and two over 10 all real thick.

Well, time for some comic relief.

I was 14, and fishing in the local pond, back in the corner where all the monster bluegill hung out. They could only be reached by climbing up into an overhanging branch of a willow tree and casting into the few open spots. And of course, I managed to get snagged. Well I tension up the line real good, and sure enough, the lure (A 501 SuperDuper) comes loose and flies on back. And hits me smack in the nose. I do manage to not fall out of the tree, which was actually a feat in and of itself. Now I kind of tug on the lure, but two of the hooks on the treble are buried past the barb. So, I cut the line, climb out of the tree, and walk two miles home.

I get home, and now try to get the lure out while looking in the mirror, and using needlenose pliers. But it was stuck in my nose. Good. You ever stick something sharp into you nose? Every time I yanked on it, I nearly blacked out.

So I go next door to the neighbors ( It was a summer weekday, and neither of my folks were home) and have the mother drive me down to the ER. Where I describe the problem. And the nurses and doctors laugh. Of course, I had used the nippers to cut the split ring, so just the hook was dangling from my nose, and not the whole stinkin' lure. I didn't want to look too stupid after all.

So, a bit of novacaine later, and I didn't care about the hook getting yanked. I was fishing the next day.

Scott

Some years ago, I had a coleman crawdad boat. Too small for two men over 200lbs, but we took it out anyway. I just started the motor turned around to head up river and got a rooster tail sunk into my eye brow. My friend was just in to big of a hurry, lucky it was a trout lure and not a 1/2 inch lower. I would have lost the eye, with the force he was trying to cast with. I had to use a pair of needle nose and a twisting motion to get it out. 

Craigh

I don't know how to post the pic but the image of Dave that pops into my head is of Martin Short in the movie Pure Luck after he gets stung by a BEE.

Jason