In reply to Post #30
Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Just reading that made me go cold - didn't that used to be a form of torture?

In reply to Post #1
Not a hook but one of those old Gardner baiting needles with a barb on it, me, my mate and his g/f went down to college lake in cornwall during the old close season, at 2am, my mate managed to get it stuck in his thumb and the only problem is that's he's the only one who can drive, so a 23 mile drive on Cornish roads later he gets the the a&e and it's removed. He said it was bloody agony driving there

In reply to Post #26
Missed your ear Keebs

Ouch

In reply to Post #33
Ooooohh, some real horrors there. Think we can be a bit more carefl with hooks. Easy to forget the damage a baiting neele can do. Golf could be safer I guess but wtf who looks good in pink pringle?

In reply to Post #30
That is brutal mate

Not a hook injury...but a few years ago i was packing up after a few days fishing and taking the none essential items back to the car...and one of the bungees was not hooked properly on the barrow and slipped off and hit me square on the lip...i thought I'd knocked my teeth out... my lip opened up good and proper....i phoned one of my mattes to look after my gear whilst i went to A&E.....whom at first weren't going to stitch my lip back together incase it didn't line up and wanted to send me to a plastic surgeon.....this was a few moths before my wedding....i sent the missus photos whilst i was in A&E and i got a call...sympathy not a chance all i got was “what's the wedding photos gonna look like”..luckily enough they stitched me up good and all i have is a faint white scar on my lip

In reply to Post #36
some great stories as for using barbless hooks its a barbed only rule on the lake im fishing

when I was 13 my pal and I were spinning for pike

these were the days when pike care wasnt about we used a pike gag and a Gaff as was the norm back in the day well my mate cast his plug into the tree above us not wanting to lose it he climbed up the tree to rescue it but he couldnt quite reach it Gerry chuck me up the gaff I will be able to get it but dont throw it hook bit first
ok mate so like a knob I held it vertical with the bend of the hook in the palm of my hand and my other hand supporting the shaft I launched it intending to whip my upper hand out the way sadly
this did not go according to plan the gaff went straight thru my ring finger and the middle finger
I of course screamed my head off the end of the handle was on the ground as our other friend came running up not noticing the handle in the longish grass and trod on it this was perfect as it whipped the gaff out I will never forget that day