Hooked
 

"-- Rob" wrote in message
...
The risk is very real......and obvious. Oddly enough, I've never known
nor
even heard of anyone taking a shot to the eye, as far as I recall.
Anybody
else?

Wolfgang

Not direct in the eye, but my friend's dad took one right in his
eyebrow...close enough to ensure wearing eye protection from then on.


i have fished for over thirty years with a close friend of mine, one pj
roberts, on some small streams in north carolina. we always understand that
the man who isn't fishing the hole, or the run, stands within three feet of
the fishing partner's back.

wayno

Hooked
 

"-- Rob" wrote in message
...
The risk is very real......and obvious. Oddly enough, I've never known
nor
even heard of anyone taking a shot to the eye, as far as I recall.
Anybody
else?

Wolfgang

Not direct in the eye, but my friend's dad took one right in his
eyebrow...close enough to ensure wearing eye protection from then on.


i have fished for over thirty years with a close friend of mine, one pj
roberts, on some small streams in north carolina. we always understand that
the man who isn't fishing the hole, or the run, stands within three feet of
the fishing partner's back.

wayno

Hooked
 

The risk is very real......and obvious. Oddly enough, I've never known
nor
even heard of anyone taking a shot to the eye, as far as I recall.
Anybody
else?

Hand raises slowly. Believe it or not, I took a bullet head bugger in the
eye in England. Busted a bunch of blood vessels in the right eye and looked
pretty bad for a couple of weeks. Didn't loose any vision though.

--
Frank Reid
Reverse email to reply

Hooked
 

The risk is very real......and obvious. Oddly enough, I've never known
nor
even heard of anyone taking a shot to the eye, as far as I recall.
Anybody
else?

Hand raises slowly. Believe it or not, I took a bullet head bugger in the
eye in England. Busted a bunch of blood vessels in the right eye and looked
pretty bad for a couple of weeks. Didn't loose any vision though.

--
Frank Reid
Reverse email to reply

Hooked
 

"-- Rob" wrote in message
...
I usually use a 5-6 ft chunk of stiff mono. I also wear a
Tilly hat with a very wide brim that seems to deflect

5-6 ft was (and is) recommended for night fishing for stripers with a
sinking
line. I cut back my leader, but not nearly enough and didn't think it was
going
to be that much of a problem (duh!).

Thankfully, I wear glasses all the time, and also always wears a baseball
cap,
both of which probably combined to deflect it enough to avoid real serious
injury.
-- so much fishing, so little time --
--please remuv the 'NOWAY2it' from my email addy to email me--

i always wear my sunglasses- don't trust myself. i was fishin this evenin
off the bank of one of our lakes, and was asked by a fella why i was wearing
sunglasses at dusk. i explained, to which he responded, "oh yeah, good
idea." indeed it is.

snake

Hooked
 

"-- Rob" wrote in message
...
I usually use a 5-6 ft chunk of stiff mono. I also wear a
Tilly hat with a very wide brim that seems to deflect

5-6 ft was (and is) recommended for night fishing for stripers with a
sinking
line. I cut back my leader, but not nearly enough and didn't think it was
going
to be that much of a problem (duh!).

Thankfully, I wear glasses all the time, and also always wears a baseball
cap,
both of which probably combined to deflect it enough to avoid real serious
injury.
-- so much fishing, so little time --
--please remuv the 'NOWAY2it' from my email addy to email me--

i always wear my sunglasses- don't trust myself. i was fishin this evenin
off the bank of one of our lakes, and was asked by a fella why i was wearing
sunglasses at dusk. i explained, to which he responded, "oh yeah, good
idea." indeed it is.

snake

Hooked
 

"GregP" wrote in message
...
On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 17:09:28 -0500, "Wolfgang"
wrote:


The risk is very real......and obvious. Oddly enough, I've never known nor
even heard of anyone taking a shot to the eye, as far as I recall. Anybody
else?


I (with a bit of help from the wind) slammed a clouser into
my forehead. That's the closest I've come.

While fishin' on Price Lake, when I first started ff'in, from a canoe, I was castin '
a Clouser and had it hit me in the back of the right ear. Thankfully, I wasn't
hooked, but it was in the Fall and cold, so it was quite painful. On numerous
occasions, I have had flys come at my face, on the back cast. I always wear glasses,
cause I couldn't see otherwise. I guess bad eye-sight can be a blessin' sometimes?

Mark

Hooked
 

"GregP" wrote in message
...
On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 17:09:28 -0500, "Wolfgang"
wrote:


The risk is very real......and obvious. Oddly enough, I've never known nor
even heard of anyone taking a shot to the eye, as far as I recall. Anybody
else?


I (with a bit of help from the wind) slammed a clouser into
my forehead. That's the closest I've come.

While fishin' on Price Lake, when I first started ff'in, from a canoe, I was castin '
a Clouser and had it hit me in the back of the right ear. Thankfully, I wasn't
hooked, but it was in the Fall and cold, so it was quite painful. On numerous
occasions, I have had flys come at my face, on the back cast. I always wear glasses,
cause I couldn't see otherwise. I guess bad eye-sight can be a blessin' sometimes?

Mark

Hooked
 

"Wolfgang" wrote in message
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"GregP" wrote in message
...
On 22 Jul 2004 22:49:22 GMT, OWAY2it (-- Rob) wrote:


Thankfully, I wear glasses all the time, and also always wears a
baseball
cap,
both of which probably combined to deflect it enough to avoid real
serious
injury.


I need glasses for reading only, but I had a pair made
up with plain glass and a low-cut reading bifocal on the
bottom for gray day and night fishing. I did that after the
very first time I tried to cast a 2/0 clouser.

The risk is very real......and obvious. Oddly enough, I've never known
nor
even heard of anyone taking a shot to the eye, as far as I recall.
Anybody
else?

Wolfgang



no shot to the eye, but today, as a result of a cast gone awry, (couldn't
have been my fault :-}), the hook ended up in my hair. i was wearing a
baseball cap, and the fly nested in the length of hair i had pulled through
that opening in the back of my cap. glad i have long hair.....

snake

Hooked
 

Hand raises slowly. Believe it or not, I took a bullet head bugger in the
eye in England. Busted a bunch of blood vessels in the right eye and looked
pretty bad for a couple of weeks.

Frank,

You are truly my angling inspiration. Heck, I did a full Reid last year, but
off a jetty (only managed to lose my stripping basket and missed hitting my
head on one of the rocks).
Is there any angling disas..., um, adventure you have not already experienced?

-- Rob