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On Jan 17, 5:13 pm, (Milo Milo) wrote:

any one else with a similar story
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My fishing companion of 40 years, now deceased, was fishing alone in his
boat early one morning on Priest Lake near Nashville. He hooked a mid-sized
hybrid on a top water popper and when he tried to land the fish by lipping
him, the fish jumped and embedded the hook in his thumb. To make matters
worse he accidentally hit the trolling motor switch and ended up wrapping
the line in the motor,effectively securing him to the bow of the boat with
no knife and unable to reach his paddle. I was fishing near and heard him
yelling. He was freed and with an anesthetic of ice pushed the hook
through, cut off the barb and sent him for a tetanus injection.
Two days later he showed me his new landing net.

I was fishing a streamer on the tippet, and a nymph on a dropper, a
rainbow took the streamer....

It appered to be lightly hooked in the lip, so I decided to unhook it
in the water for an easy release. As I was sliding my hand down the
tippet, reaching for the streamer hook shank, the fish made a lunge
that embedded the nymph firmly on the ball of my thumb....

I was stuck with a panicked rainbow on one hook, and myself on the
other, separated by about 2 feet of leader.

The fish wasn't big enough to break my 3X tippet.... I hads no choice,
I ripped the (barbed) hook out of my thumb. Then did a more
conventional realease after using the net.


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