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at the end of your link mate
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at the end of your link mate
did the old bait needle through the thumb trying to hair rig a hard boilie when I was young, luckily someone on the lake had some cutters so snipped the end and pulled it back through.
A few weeks ago had just unhooked a fish in the middle of the night, it kicked and hook ended up straight in my thumb beyond the barb, cursed a few times pushed down and managed to ease it out easier and less painful than I expected and now just about healed.
A few weeks ago had just unhooked a fish in the middle of the night, it kicked and hook ended up straight in my thumb beyond the barb, cursed a few times pushed down and managed to ease it out easier and less painful than I expected and now just about healed.
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Here's the picture, as you can see I ended up with a nasty lump full of blood, so must have burst a vessel in there. It did hurt a bit
Here's the picture, as you can see I ended up with a nasty lump full of blood, so must have burst a vessel in there. It did hurt a bit
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I once got a size 4 mugga embedded deep into my finger when rigging up just before dusk. A mate was with me on a guest session so i asked him to try and help pull it out, but he had no joy and it was buried deep in there.
I tried to suck it up and take the pain, but at 1am i decided to go to the local A&E to get it checked out. After an x-ray they said it was actually stuck in the bone so they did a little surgery and cut it out.
I arrived back at the lake to find that my mate had managed to pub chuck and fluke out two of the most saught after carp in there just to add insult to injury
I once got a size 4 mugga embedded deep into my finger when rigging up just before dusk. A mate was with me on a guest session so i asked him to try and help pull it out, but he had no joy and it was buried deep in there.
I tried to suck it up and take the pain, but at 1am i decided to go to the local A&E to get it checked out. After an x-ray they said it was actually stuck in the bone so they did a little surgery and cut it out.
I arrived back at the lake to find that my mate had managed to pub chuck and fluke out two of the most saught after carp in there just to add insult to injury
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SIze 4 into my hand when I was a kid, it was in winter before all the namby pamby cold weather gear we have now so my hand was already numb with the cold. Pushed it through, cut the point and barb off and then pulled it out. Didn't really feel a thing.....until my hand warmed up then it REALLY hurt.
And again a couple of years ago fishing with a mate and a jack pike ran through his lines whilst spawning/pre spawning in the margin. Fish wasn't hooked properly but his line got caught in it's teeth so badly that he actually played it in and landed it. As I was sorting it out on the mat it flipped and pulled the bare hook (size 6) into the palm of my hand. Same process, push it through and cut the point and barb off, then pull it out. Liberal use of hand sanitiser and no need to visit A&E in either case.
In both cases I unhooked myself but wouldn't recommend it for the squeamish.
Moral of the stories? Always make sure you have a decent set of pliers with you.
SIze 4 into my hand when I was a kid, it was in winter before all the namby pamby cold weather gear we have now so my hand was already numb with the cold. Pushed it through, cut the point and barb off and then pulled it out. Didn't really feel a thing.....until my hand warmed up then it REALLY hurt.
And again a couple of years ago fishing with a mate and a jack pike ran through his lines whilst spawning/pre spawning in the margin. Fish wasn't hooked properly but his line got caught in it's teeth so badly that he actually played it in and landed it. As I was sorting it out on the mat it flipped and pulled the bare hook (size 6) into the palm of my hand. Same process, push it through and cut the point and barb off, then pull it out. Liberal use of hand sanitiser and no need to visit A&E in either case.
In both cases I unhooked myself but wouldn't recommend it for the squeamish.
Moral of the stories? Always make sure you have a decent set of pliers with you.
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My missus was out shopping one day and right at the end out the day she felt an itch in her leg inside her jeans by her shin, she scratched it and impaled herself in the finger on a barbed size 8 curve hook to the bone - rig was still attached with lead too (unbelievably) inside the jeans and hook on the outside....... so with blood spewing everywhere, the shop staff cut the rig and she went to hospital to have it removed complete with all the injections.
How it got there is when I finished last session I cut rig off, granny knot the line to eye and pop rig/lead into my pocket. There it stayed until in the wash it all transferred to her jeans.
By huge stroke of luck I was on a stag do in Liverpool when it happened and by the time I was home she was ok (ish) about the whole thing.
My missus was out shopping one day and right at the end out the day she felt an itch in her leg inside her jeans by her shin, she scratched it and impaled herself in the finger on a barbed size 8 curve hook to the bone - rig was still attached with lead too (unbelievably) inside the jeans and hook on the outside....... so with blood spewing everywhere, the shop staff cut the rig and she went to hospital to have it removed complete with all the injections.
How it got there is when I finished last session I cut rig off, granny knot the line to eye and pop rig/lead into my pocket. There it stayed until in the wash it all transferred to her jeans.
By huge stroke of luck I was on a stag do in Liverpool when it happened and by the time I was home she was ok (ish) about the whole thing.
I know us humans are all softies and its only a thought but the fish can't use pliers or go to A&E. If barbed hooks damage us they damage fish, undeniable.
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Didn't hook the wife but did once hook the dog!
Came back from a very wet fishing session and left everything in the outside shed to dry off, including opening the tackle box and putting the unused bait on a tray to dry off. Anyway Taz, the dog, decided that he wouldn't eat any of the tray full of fishmeals but instead went into the tackle box and picked out a baited rig and woofed that down, then came trotting down the path tail wagging and line sticking out of his mouth!
Trip to the vet, Xray to see the hook and hooklink in his stomach, one operation and £500 vet bill later he was fine. Amazingly the other partner at the vet practice came rushing in with his own dog that had done exactly the same thing while he was sea fishing. Thus proving that fishmeal boilies and lug worm are both good baits for dogs.
Didn't hook the wife but did once hook the dog!
Came back from a very wet fishing session and left everything in the outside shed to dry off, including opening the tackle box and putting the unused bait on a tray to dry off. Anyway Taz, the dog, decided that he wouldn't eat any of the tray full of fishmeals but instead went into the tackle box and picked out a baited rig and woofed that down, then came trotting down the path tail wagging and line sticking out of his mouth!
Trip to the vet, Xray to see the hook and hooklink in his stomach, one operation and £500 vet bill later he was fine. Amazingly the other partner at the vet practice came rushing in with his own dog that had done exactly the same thing while he was sea fishing. Thus proving that fishmeal boilies and lug worm are both good baits for dogs.
In reply to Post #24
Pinged out of a fish on a short line, side-straining to keep it out of margin trees.
Went in the back of my left arm just above the elbow.
Really awkward to get a grip on it, took about an hour to get out but there was no way I was going home!
Point was completely buried at first but didn't think to photograph it until I'd started trying to work it through and got stuck!
Barbless is normal for me, however some places don't like them so I stick to the rules, Sod's law it had to happen on one of those waters.
Went in the back of my left arm just above the elbow.
Really awkward to get a grip on it, took about an hour to get out but there was no way I was going home!
Point was completely buried at first but didn't think to photograph it until I'd started trying to work it through and got stuck!
Barbless is normal for me, however some places don't like them so I stick to the rules, Sod's law it had to happen on one of those waters.
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Beauty!
Beauty!
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Nice work
Nice work
Not a hook but a stringer needle under my nail on my left pointy finger.Could see it down the side of my nail where it joins the fleshy bit. First day of 3 so i wasn't going home or hospital. spent the next 60 mins cutting down the side of the nail exposing the flesh bit under the nail. boy was that painful so was doing it little by little. dosed up on Ibruprofen and eventually freed it. wrapped it with electrical tape and carried on. Got home smothered it with germolene and let it harden up. i think it took 4 months for the nail to grow out. that was about 15 years ago and still have stringer needle as a painful memory to concentrate on what you are doing and never try to pierce airdrie boils with a needle. 