Sometimes You Stickem, Sometimes You Get Stuck

[jdmidwest]

Got me again this weekend.  Fishing below the dam at Pickwick.  12 inch spotted bass, reached for the lure to pull the hook out and flopped it into the finger.

This time around, I had my Dr. buddies.  They are not afraid to attack me with a knife.  They took the fish off, then the lure off of the line.  The fish had stuck the hook all the way out the other side but not past the barb.  Tried pushing it on thru, but the goofy bend and tough skin made it tuff.  Out came the scalpel, one Dr. made a small cut to relieve the barb.  I pushed the hook on thru.  My new side cutters in the bag was applied by my other Dr.  Left hand went up to deflect the pointed shrapnel that was about to happen.  Cut the barb off and I pulled hook out.  Then pulled the pointed part out of my left hand like a splinter, it shot into it when he cut it with the pliers.  Bandaid on and back to fishing the same lure.  Caught a few more on it .later on.

[BilletHead]

JD buddy!

    Are we going to take your toys and put you in a padded cell? You are tough and I know it. To beat the big "C" twice I know treble hooks mean nothing. pretty neat to have the Docs as friends to fish with. 

  BilletHead

[MOPanfisher]

Dr.s, nurses, EMT, etc.  All make good fishing buddies.  Alas all I have ever had are friends who are not afraid to yank with pliers, cut with a pocket knife, or otherwise cause pain.

[jdmidwest]

All a part of being prepared for anything.

Those dang hooks on the Flicker Shad are wicked.  But they catch alot of fish.  I have fished Shad Raps for years, but the Flicker Shad takes it up a notch.

New rule, fish grabbers each time on the Flicker Shad.  That crooked barb is tough to push thru.

[snagged in outlet 3]

Pinch em maybe?

[176champion]

That's why i use one of these...after my son spent 600 bucks in ER for removal of hook i bought him one and me one..

[jdmidwest]

One was laying on the dash where I was stationed.  I had moved to the front of the boat to catch and release the small bass like I have done hundreds of times.

From now on, it will be on my belt loop.

[Al Agnew]

Personally, I will NOT fish any treble hooks other than the standard shape, because I KNOW the standard shape treble can almost always be gotten out with the string trick, and I've stuck enough hooks in myself in remote situations that I want to have the greatest chance possible of getting the thing out myself.  Any lure that has non-standard trebles gets the hooks replaced with top quality standard trebles.  I've never yet run into a situation where I couldn't get the hook out with the string trick except last year when I stuck one in the back of my upper arm where I just couldn't see it.  I've gotten close to ten hooks out of myself over the years, and about that many out of other people.  Mary got the one out of my arm last year with the string trick. I've never had to have a doctor work on me. 

[176champion]

Could not use the string trick on this one...my son buried a treble hook all the way to the shank and it was into a nerve, his hand was numb for a week, to him to ER.

[timinmo]

I have used the string deal on myself and a couple different fishing buddies, worked great.  Sunk one in the ball of my thumb on Ten Mile Creek a couple years ago and neither I nor the guy I was fishing with could get it out.  After a couple yanks each we ended up at the ER.  Luckily we were within sight of car when it happened a hour or two later we were back on the creek.