File this one under, "what not to do."

[Hammer time]

Looks deep! Kudos to her for wanting to continue to fish!

[Kramr]

The ulnar artery runs right through there. She was lucky. Glad she is okay.

[Evolution]

Might be a good time to invest in some fish grippers.  I always have mine on hand when fishing with trebles.

[blacknoseddace]

Fished a long, long time without grippers or incident, not smart, but that is now changed. I don't want to go through that again. It could have been much worse. Every fisherman owes it to his or herself to learn how to remove a hook using fishing line. That's the second time I've tried it. The first time was on the Sac River 25 years ago when my friend hooked his ear casting with a fly rod. The hook was small and it was in the cartilage so I couldn't get it to work that time. He had the doc do it for $125. 

[blacknoseddace]

http://www.aafp.org/afp/2001/0601/p2231.html

 fish hook removal. I'm sure many of you know this, but for those that don't

[Big_D]

17 hours ago, jdmidwest said:

I had cancer on my tongue back in Nov.  They took out a third of it and used the muscle on my wrist for the replacement.  It was the wrist that I used to block the incoming 3 hook Firetiger Rapala that stuck in my tendon.  The scar was removed and relocated in the surgery.

 

 

This is something I never thought I"d see on here. I had the same thing done back in 2014. Mine is now my soft palette. Had the surgery done at Mayo in Minnesota. How about you?

[mpark]

    My buddy put a jigging spoon in the back of my head above the hairline a couple of months ago.  Went to Cox Urgent Care and the bill was $885 for the 10 minute removal with a pair of needle nose pliers!   They just pushed the barb back through and cut it off.  

 

[jdmidwest]

6 hours ago, Big_D said:

This is something I never thought I"d see on here. I had the same thing done back in 2014. Mine is now my soft palette. Had the surgery done at Mayo in Minnesota. How about you?

Barnes in ST Louis.  Dr. spent his residency at Mayo.  He was fresh out in his first year.  He is proud as a rutting buck with my success.  I still have full speech, taste, and saliva after loosing 1/3 of the front left portion of my tongue to a marble size tumor.  I have a hair patch on my tongue now.  Surgery got it all without having to go thru chemo or radiation.

Did you regain full use of your wrist and arm?  Mine still has some issues.  Carpel tunnel like pain in the wrist along with tightness like someone is squeezing it.  The tendon in the inside part of my elbow is still tender.

Somewhere on that portion that is my new tongue lies a scar from a 3 hook rapala I deflected on its return flight from a limb with the arm.  I buried one point of a treble into that tendon in the middle of my wrist.  I cut the eye of the hook with a leatherman and removed the plug and kept fishing that day.  Later that night I met up with my doctor, who I was going to fish with the following day.  He pushed on thru the tendon, cut the barb, and pulled the hook out.  Then we went fishing.  He owed me one, I extracted one out of the web between a couple of his fingers one time.

[Stein]

Trooper for sure!  That said, if I told my wife "hold it, I need a picture for OA" I'd likely be wearing a spook for an earring!  Let's face it, you knew it would be posted before you even took it, didn't ya? LOL

[blacknoseddace]

She was all for it. It's on her Facebook page. I know what you mean though. Lol!