Accidents with hooks

Meat Eater just posted an article about accidents involving fish hooks.  I remember reading a similar thread on Bloody Decks.

These are tough pictures to see - the fisherman's version of Paranormal Activity or Blair Witch.

So, anyone have hook stories?

Besides jabbing myself with countless, seemingly-unavoidable sabiki hooks, the closest I've come is when my neighbor and older brother were play-fishing in the yard as kids and he swung a treble hook into my brother's lip.  Paramedics pushed it through and cut if off.  I've been lucky otherwise.

Those are gnarly. Time to add a portable Knipex bolt cutter to tackle box.

i had to extract a jig head from my buddies neck one time.  I had a yard sale and he went in after my gear, got hooked on a jig head.  hooked by the front of the neck dragging my rod around lol.  It was so gross, but i likewise cut the hook and was able to pull it out. 

In my 50 plus years of fishing I have only been impaled three times to the point of having to use techniques to get the hook out.
One was with a size 22 hook in my back fly fishing, the other getting a rattle trap impaled in my hand when removing one of my rods from my vehicle, and the last was when I was deck handing on a party boat back in the day and was helping a girl get a tangle out of her line and she dropped the weight impaling the area between my thumb and pointer finger with a 7/0 hook.I had to push through to cut it then remove it out of my hand. Nice piercing, but I made her watch as I did it. 

Other than the minor other thousand times getting poked by hooks every time I go fishing, well you get used to that!

I carry Emergency Hook Remover & First Aid kit in my kayak.
Hopefully, I never got to use it.

Paul

Just another reason I always fish barbless.

the closest I've come is when my neighbor and older brother were play-fishing in the yard as kids and he swung a treble hook into my brother's lip.  Paramedics pushed it through and cut if off.  I've been lucky otherwise.

Not a hook, but I similarly took a large open snap swivel to the lip when I was maybe 11. No barb so it came out easily but it still hurt and bled like crazy. Had a fat lip for weeks after that.

Years ago I was fishing a bass tournament on the delta. I got a rattle trap stuck pretty well in the tullies. Had it on a 7' fiberglass cranking rod. Without giving it much thought, I pulled way too hard to dislodge it. Well, that rod loaded up and the braided line didn't give. What did give was the hook out of those weeds. Before I even knew what hit me, I had 2 of the treble hooks buried all the way to the bone in my shin. 2 hours into the tournament with 5 nice fish already in the livewell, there was no way I was going to the hospital... Tried pulling them out with pliers. No luck. couldn't push it through because the hooks were so deep, was able to cut the split ring so the lure wasn't dangling from my leg.

From the back of the boat, my buddy says.. "Hey, I saw this thing on T.V." Before he even finished the sentence, I told him to go for it. He looped about 2' of 25lb mono under the hook and I held down the eye against my leg. He says, "OK, count of 3.." well, when he got to 2 he put every bit of his 300+ pounds into that pull. The hook left my leg at a rate of speed much faster than it impaled itself and was never to be seen again.

I wish I didn't click on that link. Can't unsee that

Just a little karma for all we've done to the fishes

Barbless is the way to go

Just another reason I always fish barbless.

+1

no trebles allowed when i fish with my kids    reminds me, I need to buy and store some big bolt cutters in my truck

Just another reason I always fish barbless.

Ditto!

I once assisted in removing hooks from Bushy's ass, the stuff of nightmares.  But that's a story for him to tell ...

-Allen

you guys got me wriggling in my chair