Don't know what's going to happen next but I can hardly wait....lol.  Everything starts off just fine this AM, go to the inlet and hook into a really nice fighting snook, get it netted and landed.  I hand this guy my smart phone, 6 attempts later I still don't have a decent photo.  Either the pic is me without the fish, the fish without me or totally blurred, how does that happen with autofocus, hehe, ok I've posted 32" snook before so not a big deal.  Off to the beach, still dark out and my first cast produces a nice bluefish, second cast same result but cuts my lure off. I quickly grab the fish out of the surf and get my lure back.  I put wire on, do bluefish care, I guess not as I had one just bite thru 30# surlon wire and my catch 2000 mirrorlure is gone.  Tie on a flats jig and caught fish until nothing was left but the jig head, change up and put a poppa dog on.  Doesn't take long to hook another, get it on the beach and it's bouncing around so much it hits my leg and embeds a #2 4x treble hook into my lower shin.  Luckily there is 2 women and a man sitting on a blanket, I go up to them for some help, they only speak Russian.  Manage to press the barb down just enough to yank it our backwards, whew......I'm glad.  They bandage me and I head back for one more bluefish, then I thought I better hit the emergency medical for a tetanus shot, which I did.   I'll be back again tomorrow morning.

 

OOPS, I put this thread into the wrong forum, sorry.

Edited October 13, 201312 yr by SirSnookalot

ahh that's rough man!!! I might have been worse if you weren't catching fish glad you were though!!  I bet that treble hurt like a ......................  ... I wonder what the Russians were thinking when you went up to them with a treble hook in your leg !!!

 

hopefully tomorrow will be better for you!!

It happened last year on the beach catching the same kind of fish using the same exact lure, that time the hook went into my calf.  No tetanus then, thought better of pressing my luck.  Hook really didn't hurt a bit. 

that happened to me with a circle hook, i was fishing for redfish and the d**n mullet swam towards me a i stepped on it

The little treble I got in my finger a couple months ago didn't hurt either while it was in there....strange! The tone in your post is so pleased it makes me want to try sea fishing!