stories- how you hooked yourself bad

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I was very young - maybe 5?? Fishing for catfish with my dad - I tried to set the hook on one but I tried a little too hard. The whole contraption came back at me, and the hook embedded itself in the pad of my thumb. It went in, and it went back out. I got scared and even though my dad was on the way over to help me, I just grabbed the hook and ripped straight out instead of backing it out properly. SUCH a smart girl! :D
 
this is an old post but earlier this summer it happenned to me.
I was fishing in Clove Lake for Bluegills, Pumpkinseeds, and Brown bullhead. I had a double hook rig on. I landed the biggest Catfish if my life (almost a foot long and well over a pound) the jr world record is 1 lb 5 oz.
The Catfish was on the bottom hook. I went to grab the leader... big mistake.
a little headshake was all it took. I didn't scream, it was more like a screech cuz I didn't open my mouth. I set The Catfish down on a little power thing that I sometimes fish from and use to unhook fish where it started squirming around like a Walking Catfish. i kept on screeching. my grandma got the knife and cut away the line connecyted to the fish and the rod. I picked up the fish with my other hand and fired it back into the lake, too occupied for a proper release. (As my Grandma asked the rangers what to do I kept fishing!) We went to the hospital. My Mom and Dad came home from work to the hospital. We waited for a few hgours for them to get wire cutters. they cut the eye of the hook and started to push it thru. MAN that hurt! they said it takes 2 seconds but it got stuck. Probably because it was one of those eagle claw hooks with barbs on the shank. i got the novicane or whatever...that hurt too...they grabbed it and pulled. It was wierd now thayt it was numb like the bone was growing and pushing on the skin. FINALLY it was out and now i had a pounding headache and my finger was swollen from the fluid in the shot.
Then I...
went back to the lake! And I had an UNBELIVABLE fishing day, catching and releasing around 10 catfish in 2 hours! The smaller ones actually jump when hooked. The box has a protruding white drainadge pipe that is half in/half out of the water. I released a small Catfish that circled and then jumped onto the pipe. I went back the next day too.:grinno::screwy:
 
I've read that the proper way to remove hooks goes like this:

Take a bit of string and loop it around the bend in the fishing hook. Use your thumb and press down on the end of the hook (towards your skin), then give it a good yank.

I've had the fun experience of getting hooked in the finger trying to keep a hook from swinging into my eyes
 
that works but most people are a little to squeamish. also if you miss it hurts really bad. If it's a lure with more than 1 hook, you can pull the other hook into you. Also you can pull out pieces of meat or muscle with the barb.
 
Well this didnt happen to me but when I was younger we all went shark fishing in montauk Long Island and we were on a party boat well captain said if anyone cares to know there is a huge school of bluefish under us right now so I'll stop for a while if anyone is interested well everyone was interested and started to cast this poor guy next to me cast out his pole and the next thing I know while he was smiling at me abd said good luck he starts screaming and blood just starts rolling down the side of face someone next to him casted the damn hook right into his cheek and omg it was hoorible also the dumb guy who did this left a tuna sized hook on for a blue morral dont go on a party boat with a bunch of savage dont know anything about fishing drunks!!!!
 
I was fishing for pickerel when my friend got his topwater lure stuck on weeds... He started pulling and it went flying through the air and dug into my arm. I had to yank it out.:nilly:
 
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