Ouch. Important safety tip, always wear sunglasses when casting.

I'd wear it around for a couple days just to show-off.

Reeling in an Agila I notice it's headed straight for a stump, I speed up and raise the rod trying to get it over before getting hung up, it gets hung up enough to sling shot right back at me. It hits me right in the forehead below my hat and above my glasses. Luckily none of the hooks even went in to the barb, but it did hang there for a minute while I tried to figure out if I should pull it out or head home. I pulled it out and pressed my hand on there to stop the bleeding then continued to fish. I figured I was due a big one, but of course I caught nothing.

I've never hooked my self in the face, but I've had more than my fair share just nick my ear as it shot by. I did hook my dog once. He jumped up and snatched my lure on my back cast and took the entire rear treble hook of a rapala in the lip.

I've never taken one to the face. I did manage to put two of the three treble hooks from a spinner through the back of my arm though, barbs and all. Best part was that it was Easter Sunday and I was just wasting some time in the pond behind the house before dinner. Fortunately there was a fisherman who happened to be a dentist present and he was able to perform a quick surgery. Unfortunately, the surgery included cutting a silver dollar size hole out of the dress shirt I was wearing.

My son hooked himself in the back of the head while casting with an 1/8th ounce Rooster Tail. He was probably 7 or 8.

He was trying to get it out and pulling it so hard that his skin was at least an inch and a half away from his head when I got to where he was. I tried everything and took him home and even mom couldn't get it out. It was seriously in his head.

We took him to the doctor. All these young punk doctors worked on it for 30 or 40 minutes and couldn't get it out either. Finally they called old doc so and so and he told them about "the line pull method". It is a valuable tool. Worked for us. Works better than forceps, tweezers, and scalpels. I can testify to that.

caught a treble above my right ear a few years ago, had to have the doc take it out as it had slid in between the skull and skin farther up and my buddy couldnt poke it back out to cut the barb off

Took a Rooster Tail to the back of the neck when I was a teenager. Brother and I were wading in a trout stream next to each other, he slips and falls with about 2 feet of line out and the lure dangling and digs one of the 3 hooks in good. We both thought it was cool - I'm glad "Jackass" was not around then or we would have been trying to reenact to see if I could hook him the same way. We walked 2 miles back home and Grandpa pushed it through and cut the hook off.