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Fishing Injuries
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07-19-2005, 01:16 AM
I am just curious..... What has been your worst fishing-related injury. I'm lucky enough to have only been hooked badly a few times. Hypothermia, sunburns, broken limbs, damaged pride... I'm sure there are a thousand funny stories out there just waiting to be shared.
07-19-2005, 01:22 AM
Had my finger almost ripped of my hand !I was bottom fishing in the ocean and i was guiding the line down of my reel when a tuna striked unexpectedly and line ran of so fast i didnt have time to move my finger out of the way.But at least it was a good hook set![sly] Also have had the rod bop me on the head after an amberjack broke the line off .[pirate]
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07-19-2005, 01:26 AM
OK here goes.....
I am about 12 or 13. Me and my Dad are ice fishing Causey. I notice many many blood stains around the ice and my hole. I look at the dog and he is obviously trying to get something out of his mouth. When we looked into his mouth there is a hook burried in the very deep back of his throat in the tounge. My Dad gets PI$$ED and says we have to go. Well my Dad works himself up for the $100 bill and decides "F" it and uses a red "dehooker" to get the hook out. Holy cow that dog yelled. I am sure that anyone there would remember the yells from that dog. Well it lived and I will never forget that. Oh yeh one other reason not to bring the GD dog along. [signature]
07-19-2005, 02:20 AM
I tore the rotator cuff in my right shoulder fly fishing. My shoulder and my casting have never been the same.
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07-19-2005, 02:25 AM
I stepped in one of my own ice holes last year, and bruised the hell out of my shin. Took a loooong time to heal.
Other than that, I sat on one of my dad's fishing hats, and impaled myself with a rapala at the ripe old age of 5. I don't think there's a scar from that though[  ].I'm still young, and I'm sure next year I'll have more to add to a post like this. [signature]
07-19-2005, 04:01 AM
I used to have a bad habit of not wearing any shoes when i was on the boat ,when the weather allows for it.Well one time i ran a treble hook,that was laying on the floor thro my big toe.Being as we were camping ,i didnt want to have to packup just to go to the er.So my buddy clips the other hooks off,and we head back to camp.When we got to camp he took his fillet knife and lanced my toe open just above the embedded hook,and pulled the hook out.Bandaged it well and stayed camping.I wear my shoes all the time now.
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07-19-2005, 04:04 AM
A real man does his own surgery. Way to go Kokeking. That makes us all proud. I may have to bookmark this so I can prove to the wife that "everyone else does it". Thanks.
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07-19-2005, 04:45 AM
I too once had to do surgery on myself. I had a fly caught on my chest right below my neck. After trying to pull/twist/yank it out, I took apart a razor and cut the fly out. I must say it was much less painful to just cut it out.
07-19-2005, 12:14 PM
I fell head over heals into a patch of stinging nettle one day while wet wading at jones hole. The worst though was a case of swimmers itch while wet tubing. Never gone without the waders since.
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07-20-2005, 01:37 AM
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A real man does his own surgery. Way to go Kokeking. That makes us all proud. I may have to bookmark this so I can prove to the wife that "everyone else does it". Thanks.[/reply] [signature]
07-20-2005, 01:39 AM
Grrrrrrr my quote thingy not working.i said dont tell her about how much whiskey i had to drink before i let him cut on my toe.
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07-20-2005, 02:34 AM
[font "Comic Sans MS"][black][size 3]No big deal (to me anyway) but once I did a very good hook set into my 10 year old son's left ear. Ever since then he has NEVER allowed me to refer to him as his "fishing buddy". I always have to call someone else to fish with.[/size][/black][/font]
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07-20-2005, 03:55 AM
I was floating on the North Fork of the Snake River in my pontoon. I had become too relaxed and was floating backward tying some tippet on my line when I turned around there was a tree lying across the river. I was trapped against it in just a matter of seconds. As I tried to free myself and keep my head above the water the tree broke. The current ripped my rod out of my hand and at the same time impaled a size 2 sculpin hook deep into my thumb. I rounded up my pontoon, but lost $300 worth of equipment into the depths. I still had to row out 3 miles to the car with this huge hook in my thumb. When I got home my wife wanted to take me to the doctor, but I decided that the shot to numb the thumb would be just as painful as pushing it through and cutting it etc... My wife held down my hand while I pushed it through and then cut the barb.
Another time I was fishing off the coast of Florida for Mauhi Mauhi (Dolphin) I released the line to let the bait out when a huge Mauhi Mauhi hit I tried to slow it down with thumb pressure. To anyone who has not fished for big ocean fish let me tell you this is not a good idea without a leather glove. My thumb was melted down to a bloody pulp in the blink of an eye and the fish jumped and spit the hook before I could think to flip the lever anyway. I hope to avoid similiar stories in the future Windriver [signature] 
07-20-2005, 04:48 AM
Trebble hook in the scalp (someone else's cast)
Several hours later when a doctor pulled it out he said it had almost worked itself out anyway[pirate] [signature]
07-20-2005, 05:51 PM
When I was little, we were living in a cabin in the Uinta's somewhere while my dad was doing firefighting during the summer. We went fishing ocassionally, mostly on the streams. One day we were out and my dad handed me his fishing pole while he walked across the stream to unhook a snag. I wasn't paying attention and slipped on the rocks. Being a proper fisherman-in-training, I tried to not break the poles and broke my fall with my forehead on a nice soft rock. Minor concussion and about 15 stitches. The worst part was the drive to the hospital. I don't know where it was, but I guess it was about a 2 hour drive. We had to make the same trip about 3 weeks later when I fell off the top bunk and landed head-first on the concrete floor of the cabin. Other side of the forehead though.
Probably explains a few things. [crazy] Also got clocked in the head with a baseball bat on some dudes check-swing... in the dugout. I still wear a football helmet everywhere to this day.[cool] Matt. [signature]
07-21-2005, 06:03 AM
[cool]Man, you guys have some pretty impressive stories. Other than the minor things like hooking myself shallow enough to get it out not too painfully, I don't have any "personal" stories.
But, my stepdad has a funny one of when he was a boy (don't know what age) he was fishing with his uncles somewhere in California and he managed to get a treble hook deep into one of his fingers. His dad and uncles took him back to where they were camped out at and sat him down at the table. As one uncle looked at it, his dad had ahold of his arm and stomped on his toes with his steel toe boots, at the same time as his uncle sliced open his finger and removed the hook. Dad said that his toes hurt so bad, he didn't even feel the sliced finger or the removal of the hook! [signature]
07-21-2005, 06:50 AM
I was fly fishing the provo with my dad in our favorite stretch to fish. If anybody fishes the river in the summer they know that they have to deal with the people who float the river on whatever they can come up with. Well we were fishing and we hadn't even been there for ten minutes when I saw some big blue rafts coming down the river. Thinking that they saw me and went around me and my dad didn't say anything to me I kept fishing. Out of the corner of my eye I see this big blue raft and a late yell of look out the raft had ran right over the top of me and they rafters didn't even try to help me up as I was floating alongside of them trying to stop from floating the river all they could say was they were sorry.
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07-21-2005, 06:58 PM
I have a list of fishing related injuries.
First and most painful was getting stung by a [#0b3d91][#000000]sculpin[/#000000] [/#0b3d91](spinney salt water fish with poison fins) while unhooking it. Its fins got me on the left hand. This happened when I was around 16. Hurt for a day and a half. Multiple hook impalements too many to recount. Best way is to just push it through and cut off the barb. Self inflected act of stupidity--stabbed my hand while fishing once. Was cutting off the little plastic ring on a soda bottle just under the cap so I could distinguish my soda bottle from buddy’s soda bottle. Knife went about 1 1/2 inch into my hand. A little duct tape and a glove over the hand and continued to fish. Happy ending----none. I got skunked that day and the house was flooded when I got home. [signature]
07-21-2005, 08:49 PM
We were fishing Condie in SE Idaho at night to try and catch the big boys. My buddy hung up a rapala (with 2 treble hooks) on a bush. He gave the line a jerk to free it and he ws successful. The only problem was that the lure snapped back and embedded itself into his cheek! Both hooks! He looked kind of wierd with a lure sticking out of his face on the way to the hospital.
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