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I am KCL’s Username - 21 September 2011 12:04 AM

AAav8or - 20 September 2011 09:51 PM

Coulda been worse.  I have seen two times guys get sloppy with a Musky hook removal and get hooked.  Now they are hooked to a 50” fish and it’s thrashing HARD !! 
Bad stuff.

I thought about unhooking muskies/pike & saltwater fish how bad that would be. Not only bigger fish, bigger hooks too. Thinking about it just feels like a nightmare.

Alot of guys cut the hooks off and let the fish go. or use a looong nose pliers and unhook the fish while its still in the net/ cradle

CincySid - 21 September 2011 06:50 AM

get hooked on fishing lliterally! happens to everyone that has gotten a line wet just part of the game. i always hated getting catfish barbs stuck in me with them thrashing around.

Oh, I hear ya.  Gettin’ horned from a bullhead will make your hand throb fo sure.

A little bass hooked me in the spring.  I was using a popper.  He slipped out of my hand and a hook caught my thumb.  He was shaking that lure like a Yorky on a chew toy.  Dorsal spine or not I grabbed him right away.  Also,  I always try to wear glasses.  You never know when that hook’s coming back at you.

Man that just sounds painful.

I caught myself in the lip once while fly-fishing in Montana.  I went to back-cast a pretty heavy fly when a gust of wind blew it right at me.  I tried to roll cast it but it was too late - I size 4 woolybugger right into my upper lip.  Luckily it was a barbless hook and came right out - but man that hurt.

Flymantex - 21 September 2011 01:17 PM

Man that just sounds painful.

I caught myself in the lip once while fly-fishing in Montana.  I went to back-cast a pretty heavy fly when a gust of wind blew it right at me.  I tried to roll cast it but it was too late - I size 4 woolybugger right into my upper lip.  Luckily it was a barbless hook and came right out - but man that hurt.

ur lucky you didn’t loosen some teeth.

Flymantex - 21 September 2011 01:17 PM

Man that just sounds painful.

I caught myself in the lip once while fly-fishing in Montana.  I went to back-cast a pretty heavy fly when a gust of wind blew it right at me.  I tried to roll cast it but it was too late - I size 4 woolybugger right into my upper lip.  Luckily it was a barbless hook and came right out - but man that hurt.

Ouch!  I whacked myself in the back of the head with a clouser.  I didn’t let the backcast roll out.