Ouch, ate a crankbait tonight.

[Tator2k]

Buddy went for a set and as I watched he missed. The crank came skipping across the water towards me and deflected off the edge of boat right into my face.

Luckily I got in the lower jaw with the flat side of the bait and got missed by the trebles.

Rocked me enough to knock to my hands and knees and almost go for swim.

[Deitz Dittrich]

Glad you didnt catch any of the hooks.. lucky!

[Cecil]

Ooh, that could of been BAD. Another case for wearin shades

[TruthWalleyes]

We should make setting the hook illegial, as it might hurt someone. Circle hooks only from now on.

I stood a few feet behind my daughter casting a crankbait off a dock this weekend, Some close ones!!

[pushbutton]

We should make setting the hook illegial, as it might hurt someone. Circle hooks only from now on.

I stood a few feet behind my daughter casting a crankbait off a dock this weekend, Some close ones!!

Yep, risk bodily harm every time I go out as well

[solbes]

Glad to hear you missed the damage. Had my 6 year old at the time nephew on my boat casting for bass & pike a few years back. I got hooked on my neck collar and my hat. Two close calls there too.

Sunglasses aren't just for keeping the glare out. I wear my polarized now in any weather if the sun is up.

[RK]

Hiya -

Yikes. Scary deal. Amazing how much of a whollop a bass bait can have when it's going 100mph isn't it? I got nailed with a Jawbreaker spoon on a missed hookset and it knocked me down.

I actually got stuck this past weekend for the first time in a while. Unhooking a pike on a crankbait and it squirmed out of my hand - 2 hooks past the barb on the underside of my forearm. Death gripped the pike so he'd stop squirming, and yanked the hooks out.

Pike are the worst. Unhooked hundreds of muskies and never had anything worse than close calls, but pike have nailed me several times. The two holes I now have in my forearm are about 2" from a scar where I got a 5/0 buried in me, and hat to cut my own skin with a fillet knife to get the point pushed through to clip off the barb and back it out. Pike was the culprit there too.

Always, always wear sunglasses...

Glad there was no damage done!

Cheers,

Rob Kimm

[Cecil]

Couple years ago I took a 1/2 oz tungsten weight off the hand on a short-line hookset from the guy in the back of the boat. THAT hurt!

[Duffman]

Always, always wear sunglasses...

And a hat, a guy gets pretty good at deflecting a bait aimed at a cheek with the bill of a cap.

[Raider4ever]

This year I threw a pair of safety glasses in the boat because last year I was taking bugs off the face going out early in the morning (too dark for sunglasses). But, I will now use them in low-light periods while fishing. I have had the bigger lipless cranks come back quickly. Fortunately, no contact but I can see where this could hurt big time. A jawbreaker spoon? Man, that could kill you.

[RK]

Cecil -

I was talking to a guy from a pretty well known MN company one time about fishing the lakes by my cabin. He said when he was 12, he and his dad were pre-fishing for a tournament there. He was casting to a dock with a T-rig and 12# mono on a spinning rod. He landed a cast on a dock and the hook point snagged some carpet. He was trying to get it off when the cabin owner came out to yell at him for fishing around his dock (happens all the time there...). His dad told him to just break it off. So he's stretching the mono to the max, and just as it was close to breaking, the hook point came loose. The thing shot back at his head, and he put up his hand to block it.

He showed me the scar on the back of his hand. "That's where the bullet sinker went in," he said.

Then he flipped his hand over to show me the scar on his palm and said: "That's where they took it out."

Yowza...

Raider - I do the same thing with clear glasses. Have a pair under my console all the time. The Jawbreaker hit me right on the sternum. Sounded like someone hitting a croquet ball with a mallet, and I had a bruise for weeks. Did not feel good at all...

[thatoneguy]

Last fall I had a Jawbreaker smack the left lens on my Costas on a missed hookset. Very thankful I had them on!

[Cecil]

Ooh, no good! I was lucky in the fact that it was braid so it didnt have the speed that he had if it was a stretched out mono. I can't imagine...

[Deitz Dittrich]

since we are talking war wounds.. When I was 12 my mom dropped me off at lake calhoun.. and was going to pick me back up in 3 hours.. would not do that with a 12 year old now.. but was safe when i was 12.. LOL.. anyway.. I caught a nice bass and just went to lip it when it shook the 3/0 hook.. was not wearing a hat.. in the forehead.. and back out.. so I bit the line off and just let it hang there for the 2 hours till my mom came and picked me up..

[swamptiger]

Reminds me of the time my brother got a daredevil in his nose...

No - fortunately for me, I wasn't the guy who made the cast...

[dfv87]

Dietz LOL... I can hear that conversation.

HI mom. What do you mean what happened?

Oh this, all the kids are doing it. All the "cool kids" have hook piercings.

or... Yeah, but you should have seen the fish. He was in worse shape.

or... I joined a cult of Fishermen and this is our sign for manhood.

[bobbymalone]

so I bit the line off and just let it hang there for the 2 hours till my mom came and picked me up..

I think I have relayed this story a couple times, but I was learning how to cast a fly rod and managed to get a small bass popper to go right thru my earlobe. I had just gotten out and was in a float tube so I snipped the line as close as I could and left it for a few hours. Definitely blasted that one with some antiseptics when I got home.

[HooknHorns]

Hooked my brother when we were young. He walked up behind me flyfishing. Didnt say what hurt worse the hook or the bead head hitting him. Good thing there tiny.

[beakgeek]

Great reason for a life jacket too. Getting rocked and going in cold water would not be good.

[gritsnham]

Worst I ever took was a ounce jig after a missed set on swim jig right to the forehead. Man did that hurt even worse than having to force a hook through to cut the barb. Im very careful of my rod angle and my partners for this very reason....

Ahhh what a great thread reliving all of our fishing ooops moments!

[WyoChris]

Was sitting behind my buddy on a dock when he decided to chuck his giant rapala spoon. It sank into the back of my head pretty good. Thank god I was facing him.... and not away from him or i may be missing an eye... blood was pouring down my neck. After some pliers surgery and cutting of the hook, it came out.... thank god.... I thought I was due for a ER visit.

Don't even get me started of my fly fishing trips in wyoming.....

[RK]

I forget where it is (might be up by Lake Vermilion), but there's an ER that has all the hooks they've pulled out of people in a big glass case.

I got nailed in the back of the head with a Mepps Giant Killer when I was guiding pike in Alaska. Knocked me goofy, and either the hook or the blade laid open a 2" gash on the back of my head. We were out in the bush fishing off a houseboat 65 air miles from anywhere, but we had a pretty majr medical kit, including a suture kit. So our cook, Tim, from Eagle Lake Texas, was nominated to stitch me up. They laid me face down on the dining table and shot me up with Novocaine. Just as he was getting ready to start stitching, I said "Tim, do you have any idea at all what you're doing?" He said: "Hell, man. I can't even sew on a button. Hold still..."

Still have the scar...

[NTW]

I forget where it is (might be up by Lake Vermilion), but there's an ER that has all the hooks they've pulled out of people in a big glass case.

I got nailed in the back of the head with a Mepps Giant Killer when I was guiding pike in Alaska. Knocked me goofy, and either the hook or the blade laid open a 2" gash on the back of my head. We were out in the bush fishing off a houseboat 65 air miles from anywhere, but we had a pretty majr medical kit, including a suture kit. So our cook, Tim, from Eagle Lake Texas, was nominated to stitch me up. They laid me face down on the dining table and shot me up with Novocaine. Just as he was getting ready to start stitching, I said "Tim, do you have any idea at all what you're doing?" He said: "Hell, man. I can't even sew on a button. Hold still..."

Still have the scar...

Awesome

[cjac]

I forget where it is (might be up by Lake Vermilion), but there's an ER that has all the hooks they've pulled out of people in a big glass case.

I know back in the day they had a manequin in the Brainerd ER with all the lures removed from anglers placed in the spot.

I contributed with a Johnson Silver Minnow planted square into the fatty part of the the chin on my Dad when I tried to cast..... The farmer on the lake tried to cut it with a fence cutter and didn't even knick the chrome off it. For the record, Dad was standing up in a 14' Lund with three in the boat. That's my defense....