On Jan 18, 8:13*am, (Milo Milo) wrote:
i was tying double leader hooks not long ago for carp fishing i was
using #4 wide bend hooks *a # 3 *3 way swivle n 40 lb leader line after
tying 11 sets of hooks i was finnaly on my last set i usually use pliers
to sinch the knots up but this time like a dum ass knowing what may
happen i put the tag end of the line between my teen to sinch it up
* and of coarse it slipped and the hook went right thru my bottom lip
suprisingly it didnt hurt at all untill my son got the cutting pliers to
cut off the barb end so *we could get the hook out the next couple days
was rough let me tell ya
* any one else with a similar story

Closest story to that happened when I was 17. Baitfishing on a lake in
Maine, I got a smallmouth and he pretty much swallowed the entire
thing. I was holding him by the bottom lip, thumb down in his mouth,
and since I didn't have a tool to reach down his throat, I just yanked
*really* hard on the trace. The hook tore loose from his gills, and
embedded itself at the base of my thumbnail, right up to the bend.
Problem was, the barb was embedded up by my knuckle so it was
impossible to cut off the barb and release it, and impossible to push
it the rest of the way through. We tried everything...all the old
'unhooking' tricks, and nothing worked. Eventually, I asked my buddy
just to slice my thumb open from thumbnail to knuckle, but he was too
wigged out to do it (as I was). So we lashed the hook down, rowed
ashore, found some old guy sitting on his porch and asked him to do
it. (Don't know why we didn;t just think of going to the hospital...)
He took the knife, squeezed my thumb, then put the sharp blade against
the bend of the hook right near where it went under the skin, and
YANKED!!! The hooked popped out, taking a small chunk of my thumb with
it, but damn it came out. Still have a little scar, but I think its
from the infection that followed (fish guts and all that) more than
the wound.

Still creeps me out when think about it. That damn fool could have
ripped my thumb off! :-)

--riverman