Man! Some crazy stories here. Glad we can all relate in some fashion. Funny how some people posted they still fished until the day was done,,,,,, then went to the ER. ;-)

Been fishing bout 48 years and got myself this past April for the first time.

A Lucky Craft Pointer with brand spanking new Owner ST- 36 size 4 trebs got me in the index finger. It was near dark and freezing cold when I lipped a bass and he did a double pump slam into my finger. The problem was, my fingers were numb from the cold so when I realized he got me it was already past the barb.

Drove 10 miles to an Urgent care. They had one of those fancy bolt/wire cutters they were trying to use. The Dr. was a young 30 something women and she had a heck of a time cutting off that Owner treble.

Now I know why I've always been a big Owner Hook guy! No one's going to tell me they've straightened out an ST36 treble, that's for sure.

My 3 year old son decided to drop his Spiderman kiddie pole while I was tying on a hook for him... Ouch right in the side of my finger. The good thing was it was only a small #6 hook.

Personally, I haven't been hooked anytime note worthy enough to make a story out of it. BUT, I was present for 2 pretty good "hookings."

First, in highschool, a bunch of us were at a graduation party at a large pond. I was fishing and started to draw a small crowd when I caught a fish. Some one else brought a rod out and started casting and the crowd kept getting bigger out on this small dock. Fortunately, it wasn't me that didn't think it was necessary to pay attention to who was around while casting and accidentally hooked one of our friends in the back of the head with a treble hook. I think his mom wound up taking him to the ER to get it taken out.

Second, my brother is almost strictly a fly-fisherman. One year in the Sierra's we dropped him and his float tube off at a lake while we went hiking. When we came back he was already out of the water with a fuzzy black thing hangin off the side of his neck. Apparently, on his back cast he misjudged where his fly was heading and stuck himself. Thankfully those hooks are tiny so it didn't go past the skin, but it did make it tough to push the hook through and cut the barb off.

Ouch!  I have been lucky thus far but I'm sure my time is coming.  Of my "almost", all have involved those dumb little dinks which are too small for you to get a good hold of (from the mouth, anyway), and they invariably shake like crazy).

I've hooked myself one time and it was back when I was 16 years old.  I went to a local river to do some salmon fishing during their fall migration.  I was throwing a Canadian Wiggler plug into the deeper pools and I managed to hook a fish on my first cast.  I didnt have a net with me and I beached the fish on the bank, maybe a 12 pounder.  When I went to grab the hook (no pliers), the fish thrashed and put the hook right into my palm and continued to thrash.  Eventually the hook ripped free and it was messy.  Being 16, I patched it up and kept fishing haha.  I still have a 2.5 inch long scar on my palm from that day.  Sometimes I feel like I should have left and got stitches, sometimes though, I enjoy the battle wounds.

If you fish long enough, and often enough it is going to happen.  I have done it several times and almost always with treble hooks.  Usually a lure gets hung up and I try to rip it out.  It flies back at me and imbeds somewhere in my body right to the bend in the hook.  I have worn a deep diving crankbait and a #9 rapala stick bait to the emergency room one month apart.  I tried the sting a pull method and had no luck.  If you fish a lot it is going to happen.

_{one time fishing with a friend he snagged a plastic bag on the bottom of the lake with a square bill. After pulling for a while it finally came out and when it did it flew right into my leg and the back treble buried all the way in. had to go to the doctors and get it numbed and it eventually came out the way it went in. kept the bait and fished with it the next weekend.}