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I was up near the water treatment facility picking up garbage from 9am-12pm for a school event and decided that since i was in the area i would do some fishing at lake mead afterwards. I arrived at 33 hole around 1 pm and around 1:15 arrived at my favorite spot. The wind was blowing very hard, I casted one of my lines in and was about to cast my second when a loud scream eruptted from behind me. One of my buddies hooked his girlfriend in the forehead while casting. So he pulls out the hook and her face is dripping with blood, it was like in the ufc when someone takes a sharp elbow to the forehead. So we decided to leave, and my girlfriend, her brother, and I headed over to boulder harbor. What a rough start for the day!
When we arrive at boulder harbor the fishing pier is packed with people so we decided to make a little hike to the left of that pier, past the boat launch, down a a hundred yards. It was around 2:30 now. Everyone we bumped into said it has been slow for the past hour. So we cast our lines in and patiently waited. Around 4 pm, my girlfriend's brother landed not only our first fish of the day, but his first striper ever. It was really happy for him, because he's gotten skunked every time before this. I landed our second fish around 4:30 pm, and our last fish around 5:15 pm. The first two didn't put up much of a fight, it was just like pulling in dead weight. The last striper i caught was a fun fight. We ended at 6 pm, was too bad my girl didnt catch anything.
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Sounds like a good time chizzle (minus the hook in the forehead part).
I'm plan on starting to fish Mead occasionally myself. Have never fished there. About a three and a half hour drive for me. Your posts are giving me the fever.
I'll have to pick your brain for some recipes once I actually hook a few........
TD
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a loud scream eruptted from behind me. One of my buddies hooked his girlfriend in the forehead while casting.
I've been down that road before. What a bummer!
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the pupil in my left eye doesnot contract all the way now, i got a fish hook in in when i was like 4 years old. was in the hospital for awhile. gettin hurt does suck, i hope she is okay and didnot cause too much damage
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Ouch!! My grandpa did that to me when we were out musky fishing. That wild man hooked me with a huge jerkbait that had trebles in it the size of my hand. He got me right in the back of my head.....still can feel that scar.
Hope she's okay!
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I was shore fishing for largemouth about 12 years ago with my friend and his family. His dad was casting a jitterbug and on the cast, caught his daughters neck (the back side) and didn't know it- he made a full cast and snapped his line, leaving the jitterbug hanging from her neck. Hell, that was a sight to see. Talk about traumatizing. She was only 8.
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Okay, so I have to share my story...
It was myself and a friend fishing Hole 33 in a little 15' boat just around sundown. It was starting to get dark and we decided to head in after one last go. I pitched a jerk bait with three sets of small treble hooks against a rock wall and it got stuck. I shook the line a bit to get it loose to no avail and then decided to pull on it a bit. It launched back towards us at an amazing speed and I managed to bring up my pole just in time to stop it from smashing into my face.
My fishing partner standing at the other end of the boat was not so lucky seeing that the lure had bounced off of my pole and into his face. One of the treble hooks was in his eye. Trying my damnedest to stay calm I found my headlamp and took a look. The hook had gone through his lower eyelid but was not in his eyeball. So I cut the line and then cut the split ring holding the hook to the bait. The whole time he was quiet, just shaking a bit, breathing heavy, and sweating.
So there he was hooked through the lower eye, not blind but very unhappy. Then he wanted me to cut the hook and pull it out... I must have been fruit loops because I proceeded to do it. I grabbed some cardboard to shield his eye from any flying debris, pulled the hook/eyelid out a bit and snipped off the barbed end. Pulled the hook out and started the motor...
I will remember that for a long time.
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The whole time he was quiet, just shaking a bit, breathing heavy, and sweating.
That story makes me shake just thinking about.[:p] Just goes to show you that you should always carry side cutters and maybe a small mirror in your tackle box.
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