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While fishing, has anyone snagged someone or anything, as they were about to cast?
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When I was 16 we were spin fishing 7 Mile Creek in southern Ohio. I wasn't wearing a shirt. On the forward cast two hooks from an Abu Garcia treble embedded deep in my back. My buddy couldn't get it out. Stopped by a service station and they wouldn't even try. They were in up to the shanks. So, we drove the hour to the Wright Patterson AFB hospital.
The cutest candy striper was at the check in. She asked me why I was there. I just turned around to show her the dangling Abu. She almost fainted. I like to think that she was overwhelmed by my buff, tanned, athletic, half-naked, teenage bod, but it was probably the bright yellow polka dot buggy-looking thing hanging off my back
Two medics took care of me - laughing and joking the entire time. They numbed me up and asked if I felt anything. I could feel them cutting and thought about screaming but thought better of it - not around scalpels. They got it out and patched me up. Unfortunately, the candy striper's shift had ended so that was the end of that story.
A few years later I had to pick up my medical records. I leafed through and found the feathered treble stapled to one of the records, with a complete medical description of the procedures used to extract it.
Me and my sister were fishing on my little boat one day. I decided to make an extremely long cast with a buzzbait. I told her to watch out because of the direction I wanted to throw. Hooked her right in the forehead with a BUZZBAIT!!! It, was embedded just past the barb--well, a lot past the barb. I played medic for about the next 5 minutes and got it out using the method outlined in Field and stream a while back. She actually said it was rather painless, considering how deep the hook was in her head. I cringe every time I think about it. And no, she never slapped me. She was actually quite calm about the whole thing.
Another time, a buddy of mine was fly fishing and caught my pants with the fly. I'm glad it didn't hook me in the process.
If you're asking this because you did it to someone, you're not alone!!!
dont kill me on this answer im ten i cant put a superlong paragraph
well in 2008 my brother age:12 and i were fishing spinnerbaits at a local park and we had already caught a couple bass and they stopped bitting so i swithched to a crankbait had great form a coupl cast then i swung back about the tenth time and line went tight as i swung forward heard a loud yelp i had hooked my brother in the jaw had to go home early that day
darnet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111
My neck, My ear, My buddy's hat (lost it since it was flung half way across the river), my dog, my raft (several times), more tree limbs than I could count, a dragonfly (it actually flew around with my fly in it), a couple power lines, a car, my tackle box (dumped everything into the drink), I am sure there are many more I will think of later. On a positive note none have required ER trips yet, just a little blood and loss of personal property.
First, my friend Brian and I were catfishing using some chicken livers and big ol "whisker getter" hooks, and he slapped himself in the back with it, i about fell off of the dock laughing. I've hooked my waders several times while trout fishing. And once when i was young, my uncle hooked a black snake while fly fishing and flung it halfway cross the river.
my grandfather was fly fishing in quebec with line tipped with lead core when he hooked my uncle in the ear, it stayed there until the end of the trip. My uncle then had pictures taken of it and had his mom give my grandfather a piece of her mind
I hooked someones dog right in the mouth on my back cast one day. It had trebles in the mouth face and ear. I was just a kid. A few buddies and I held it down and pulled the hooks out with a pair of pliers. Man that had to hurt.
I have snagged and been snagged by a topwater lure before, as mentioned above by several others, it was no fun at all to have to get the hooks removed.
I have also snagged another rod and flipped it into the water, great day to ruin a good day on the water having to fish out your gear instead of catching fish.
my sister has snagged me and somehow the hook got into my nose!
my backcast snagged a kerlew in mid-flight once, on the bighorn...gave a new meaning to catch and release...
I was tying a fly on, I wet the knot, and with my middle and thumb nail slid the knot down the line.
Well, the knot came out from under my fingernails, and all the momentum forced the hook into my thumb. I attempted to just pull it out, but it was DEEP. The fly seemed like it was being held in with a vise. I cut the line, and headed back home.
I walked in the house to the old lady asking me why I was home so early. I showed her, and she burst out laughing. I went to the garage to get some needle nose. I couldn't get the pliers between the shaft and my skin (thats how deep it was). So off to the ER we go.
I finally get seen about 3 hours later. The doctor wanted to push it through, so he could cut the barb. This couldn't happen come to find out cause the barb was embedded in MY BONE!!! So he had to yank it out. He used some extreme medical technique (tied a string around the shaft), and when he pulled. He pulled like he was starting a lawn mower.
It took 3 stiches to close the "exit" wound. After all was said and done, I told him how embarassed I was. He told me it happens all the time. He also said that a woman was in just the previous week with a treble hooked through her EYELID. Thats a hole new definition of pain.
we were bored not catching anything so me and friends started casting at each other and hooking each other from across the stream, it was hilarious until u got hooked....i also was at a fishing tournament were you had to pay to get into, and a lady took her grandson ...and on her grandson's first cast he hooked her in the butt, were it stayed for quite sum time....the boy asked if he could get ice cream after she gets the hook out...to which she replied hell no!
When I was 9 a snagged a lady while I was fishing in the trout pond at an outdoors show. I was trying to fly fish like I saw on tv. Good thing the hook was small.
I hooked my Dad's hat on my backcast when I was a kid. I casted, his hat went PLOP in the water, I turned around in the little 10' john boat we fished in, and I will never ever forget the look on his face! From that day on, I always paid close attention to my back swing!
one of my friends got hooked right through his ear he had to go to the hospital and get a tetnus shot
we were fishing on a decent sized creek and a kid while in his back cast hooked a kid on the inside of his cheek, i didnt see it but i heard a scream and looked over, and the kid was hooked in the mouth, he was pissed
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When I was 16 we were spin fishing 7 Mile Creek in southern Ohio. I wasn't wearing a shirt. On the forward cast two hooks from an Abu Garcia treble embedded deep in my back. My buddy couldn't get it out. Stopped by a service station and they wouldn't even try. They were in up to the shanks. So, we drove the hour to the Wright Patterson AFB hospital.
The cutest candy striper was at the check in. She asked me why I was there. I just turned around to show her the dangling Abu. She almost fainted. I like to think that she was overwhelmed by my buff, tanned, athletic, half-naked, teenage bod, but it was probably the bright yellow polka dot buggy-looking thing hanging off my back
Two medics took care of me - laughing and joking the entire time. They numbed me up and asked if I felt anything. I could feel them cutting and thought about screaming but thought better of it - not around scalpels. They got it out and patched me up. Unfortunately, the candy striper's shift had ended so that was the end of that story.
A few years later I had to pick up my medical records. I leafed through and found the feathered treble stapled to one of the records, with a complete medical description of the procedures used to extract it.
we were bored not catching anything so me and friends started casting at each other and hooking each other from across the stream, it was hilarious until u got hooked....i also was at a fishing tournament were you had to pay to get into, and a lady took her grandson ...and on her grandson's first cast he hooked her in the butt, were it stayed for quite sum time....the boy asked if he could get ice cream after she gets the hook out...to which she replied hell no!
Me and my sister were fishing on my little boat one day. I decided to make an extremely long cast with a buzzbait. I told her to watch out because of the direction I wanted to throw. Hooked her right in the forehead with a BUZZBAIT!!! It, was embedded just past the barb--well, a lot past the barb. I played medic for about the next 5 minutes and got it out using the method outlined in Field and stream a while back. She actually said it was rather painless, considering how deep the hook was in her head. I cringe every time I think about it. And no, she never slapped me. She was actually quite calm about the whole thing.
Another time, a buddy of mine was fly fishing and caught my pants with the fly. I'm glad it didn't hook me in the process.
If you're asking this because you did it to someone, you're not alone!!!
dont kill me on this answer im ten i cant put a superlong paragraph
well in 2008 my brother age:12 and i were fishing spinnerbaits at a local park and we had already caught a couple bass and they stopped bitting so i swithched to a crankbait had great form a coupl cast then i swung back about the tenth time and line went tight as i swung forward heard a loud yelp i had hooked my brother in the jaw had to go home early that day
darnet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111
My neck, My ear, My buddy's hat (lost it since it was flung half way across the river), my dog, my raft (several times), more tree limbs than I could count, a dragonfly (it actually flew around with my fly in it), a couple power lines, a car, my tackle box (dumped everything into the drink), I am sure there are many more I will think of later. On a positive note none have required ER trips yet, just a little blood and loss of personal property.
First, my friend Brian and I were catfishing using some chicken livers and big ol "whisker getter" hooks, and he slapped himself in the back with it, i about fell off of the dock laughing. I've hooked my waders several times while trout fishing. And once when i was young, my uncle hooked a black snake while fly fishing and flung it halfway cross the river.
my grandfather was fly fishing in quebec with line tipped with lead core when he hooked my uncle in the ear, it stayed there until the end of the trip. My uncle then had pictures taken of it and had his mom give my grandfather a piece of her mind
I hooked someones dog right in the mouth on my back cast one day. It had trebles in the mouth face and ear. I was just a kid. A few buddies and I held it down and pulled the hooks out with a pair of pliers. Man that had to hurt.
I have snagged and been snagged by a topwater lure before, as mentioned above by several others, it was no fun at all to have to get the hooks removed.
I have also snagged another rod and flipped it into the water, great day to ruin a good day on the water having to fish out your gear instead of catching fish.
my sister has snagged me and somehow the hook got into my nose!
my backcast snagged a kerlew in mid-flight once, on the bighorn...gave a new meaning to catch and release...
I was tying a fly on, I wet the knot, and with my middle and thumb nail slid the knot down the line.
Well, the knot came out from under my fingernails, and all the momentum forced the hook into my thumb. I attempted to just pull it out, but it was DEEP. The fly seemed like it was being held in with a vise. I cut the line, and headed back home.
I walked in the house to the old lady asking me why I was home so early. I showed her, and she burst out laughing. I went to the garage to get some needle nose. I couldn't get the pliers between the shaft and my skin (thats how deep it was). So off to the ER we go.
I finally get seen about 3 hours later. The doctor wanted to push it through, so he could cut the barb. This couldn't happen come to find out cause the barb was embedded in MY BONE!!! So he had to yank it out. He used some extreme medical technique (tied a string around the shaft), and when he pulled. He pulled like he was starting a lawn mower.
It took 3 stiches to close the "exit" wound. After all was said and done, I told him how embarassed I was. He told me it happens all the time. He also said that a woman was in just the previous week with a treble hooked through her EYELID. Thats a hole new definition of pain.
When I was 9 a snagged a lady while I was fishing in the trout pond at an outdoors show. I was trying to fly fish like I saw on tv. Good thing the hook was small.
I hooked my Dad's hat on my backcast when I was a kid. I casted, his hat went PLOP in the water, I turned around in the little 10' john boat we fished in, and I will never ever forget the look on his face! From that day on, I always paid close attention to my back swing!
one of my friends got hooked right through his ear he had to go to the hospital and get a tetnus shot
we were fishing on a decent sized creek and a kid while in his back cast hooked a kid on the inside of his cheek, i didnt see it but i heard a scream and looked over, and the kid was hooked in the mouth, he was pissed
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