Caught a monster today

[Drbucketmouth57]

Another reason to de-barb hooks. 

[nomolites]

Have had my share of those, usually involving a good sized hybrid and a crankbait.  Ouch!  Have always removed myself - have a really good set of sidecutters capable of cutting off heavy hook points if possible and a first aid kit handy.  This ALWAYS happens when the bite is good, at least to me.. and I hate leaving fish.  I have to say that this year I finally bought a pair of those plastic locking fish pliers and went through the year with no major damage just using those rather than grabbing a lip during hook removal.  My Weimaraner did pinch hit for me there getting one hook of a big treble buried in each of her nostrils after trying to get a sniff of a big cat that had just come aboard...I wish I'd have had that extraction on my GoPro as I had her connected to this 15# blue by a #9 flicker shad and(neither one was particularly happy with the arrangement) me trying to contain both.   Amazingly after yanking those out she was fine in just a few minutes( guess I've had plenty of practice on ME..). although she no longer has an interest in assisting me with landing fish.

Merry Christmas all.  May go fishing in the morning and will let you know how that goes.

Mike

 

[WeekendWarrior]

5 hours ago, nomolites said:

Have had my share of those, usually involving a good sized hybrid and a crankbait.  Ouch!  Have always removed myself - have a really good set of sidecutters capable of cutting off heavy hook points if possible and a first aid kit handy.  This ALWAYS happens when the bite is good, at least to me.. and I hate leaving fish.  I have to say that this year I finally bought a pair of those plastic locking fish pliers and went through the year with no major damage just using those rather than grabbing a lip during hook removal.  My Weimaraner did pinch hit for me there getting one hook of a big treble buried in each of her nostrils after trying to get a sniff of a big cat that had just come aboard...I wish I'd have had that extraction on my GoPro as I had her connected to this 15# blue by a #9 flicker shad and(neither one was particularly happy with the arrangement) me trying to contain both.   Amazingly after yanking those out she was fine in just a few minutes( guess I've had plenty of practice on ME..). although she no longer has an interest in assisting me with landing fish.

Merry Christmas all.  May go fishing in the morning and will let you know how that goes.

Mike

 

Had me smiling and laughing picturing the dog and fish with the neither being very happy ?, I bet. And yes, Merry Christmas to All!