During a tourney a couple weeks back I caught a short on the whopper plopper. Ended up with one point of the tail hook buried in my right index finger from the top corner of the nail to where the hook point was barely out the bottom of the finger. Partner had to cut the O-ring from the bait after removing the fish. Fished the last 25 minutes of the tourney with the hook in my finger. Got home and put the boat away. Made an ice/salt/water brine and chilled the finger good, pushed the barb on through, cut it off, rechilled, and backed the rest on out. No worse for wear.