On 6/24/2017 at 4:29 PM, Bunnielab said:

I have yet to hook myself badly, but I had a nice little close call the other week.

 

 

It was my first outing with a heavy rod, went to set the hook and launched the toad back at me.  It went through my pants and gave me the the tiniest little poke.  

I won't guarantee that the press and jerk method will work in this area.  I can guarantee that you are going to have to do the whole operation yourself.

As a kid I buried a hook in my brothers thigh canoe fishing.  My dad pushed it through to cut the barb.  It was 30 years ago and I can still vividly remember how much skin stretches before that hook pushed through.

 

I just did this building a ceiling mount rod rack.

 

5 hours ago, boudroux said:

As a kid I buried a hook in my brothers thigh canoe fishing.  My dad pushed it through to cut the barb.  It was 30 years ago and I can still vividly remember how much skin stretches before that hook pushed through.

 

I just did this building a ceiling mount rod rack.

 

Dang .How did you get that out?

5 hours ago, boudroux said:

As a kid I buried a hook in my brothers thigh canoe fishing.  My dad pushed it through to cut the barb.  It was 30 years ago and I can still vividly remember how much skin stretches before that hook pushed through.

 

I just did this building a ceiling mount rod rack.

 

NAILED IT!

Last month I caught a dink on a crank bait. He went all slap happy when I tried to get the hooks out and he drove one of the trebles into the middle of my thumb. Thank god I wasn't alone on the boat that day. My buddy came over and got the fish off the hook and handed me a pair of side cutters. I cut the hooks off that were not in me and worked for an hour trying to get it out of my thumb. I couldn't get it out and my buddy who throws up at the sight of blood was no help. (Didn't want his help. No barf in the boat!) After that hour of pain I drove the boat back to the marina, loaded the boat and straight to the Er. After 4 more hours of waiting and 1500.00 later, hook removed... put a new hook on he crank bait. And still catching fish with it. Gonna be sad if I ever loose 

my 1500.00 crank bait. 

Todays the first day back since I buried a treble hook in my thumb . I took no chances . The bench seat had a new fish grip , needle nose pliers , Leatherman , and hemostats laying on it . They all got used . In my bag  were side cutters and a new split ring tool . 

On 6/27/2017 at 2:51 PM, N Florida Mike said:

Dang .How did you get that out?

 

My first attempt to remove was using my bench vice but the angle wasn't right to be able to pull it out so I grabbed a pair of linesman pliers and had my wife hold them and I jerked it out.  The darn tetnis shot hurt more than nailing myself.

7 minutes ago, boudroux said:

 

My first attempt to remove was using my bench vice but the angle wasn't right to be able to pull it out so I grabbed a pair of linesman pliers and had my wife hold them and I jerked it out.  The darn tetnis shot hurt more than nailing myself.

Oh I'm sorry, pardon me, I was just vomiting in my mouth 

im 15, been fishing pretty much my whole life, and have never stuck myself past the barb.... yet.

Don't ask how, but I managed to get a rusty treble straight into the meat of my left thumb past the barb. I still don't know how I managed to pull it out without damaging something and getting tetnis

1 hour ago, hunterPRO1 said:

im 15, been fishing pretty much my whole life, and have never stuck myself past the barb.... yet.

It took me 50 years to join the club . 

2 hours ago, frosty said:

Oh I'm sorry, pardon me, I was just vomiting in my mouth 

 the picture was more then enough for me

On ‎6‎/‎23‎/‎2017 at 4:24 PM, LxVE Bassin said:

I feel better about myself now. I hook myself atleast 10 times a year.

  I believe if I hooked myself 10 times a YEAR I would find a better way to handle fish or take up a different hobby!!

On ‎6‎/‎27‎/‎2017 at 6:06 PM, frosty said:

NAILED IT!

WOW!!  I know for certain I do not want to build anything with you!!

On ‎6‎/‎23‎/‎2017 at 4:24 PM, LxVE Bassin said:

 I hook myself atleast 10 times a year.

 

You're doing it wrong.

A-Jay

 

On 6/27/2017 at 0:23 PM, boudroux said:

As a kid I buried a hook in my brothers thigh canoe fishing.  My dad pushed it through to cut the barb.  It was 30 years ago and I can still vividly remember how much skin stretches before that hook pushed through.

 

I just did this building a ceiling mount rod rack.

 

I have to to join the hook club yet (I've drawn blood but that's it) but I'm a member of the nail gun club and I've renewed my membership 3 times! 16d all 3 time luckily all were in the meat and none in the bone. All 3 I pulled out, hurt worse days after than when I did it.

This didn't happen while I was fishing. But I work at a local Lake in my hometown where we have sailboat buoys which basically consists of a 1500 pound anchor a chain in the buoy on top. So I live in Minnesota and every fall we need to remove the buoys and every spring we put them back in we do this by attaching 12 gauge wire to each chain find the wire pull it off the bottom and in the chain comes up. After a long couple days of doing this job I was down to my last 10 buoys to put in was about a 15 mile an hour wind I'm pulling this wire and pull in this wire the chain comes up I go to grab it I don't really feel anything but a little pinch then the wind starts blowing the boat and my hand stays with the chain and I look down and I have a 6 ought treble hook in the palm of my hand all the way into the muscle that's some musky fisherman got snagged on. I ended up having to go to the doctor and having its lice out of my hand and three stitches in my palm

3 hours ago, kadas said:

WOW!!  I know for certain I do not want to build anything with you!!

I've had a few drywall screws stuck in my hands, very painful to back out with a drywall gun, but I haven't nailgunned myself, at least not any that went in like that!

Throwing a lipless and caught a big *** catfish.  Stepdad netted him and I reached in and before I knew the hooks were in me. Somehow someway after I was hooked everything came out of the net and the fish came off.  Had he not it would probably have ripped the tips of my fingers off.  You can see in the pick I'm hooked through the top of my middle finger nail and what you can't see is the other treble hooked up under my pointer.  It hurt pretty bad and my wife is a nurse so I went to the ER.  A couple of shots to numb the pain and the doc was able to pull the hooks out pretty easily.  Honestly it never even really hurt after that.  That'll make you be really careful around trebles.

I caught a fish on a spook today and of course I got hooked twice in 2 different places. I will be using lip grippers from here on out when I am using a lure with treble hooks.

I've been using Fish Grips a lot since i acquired them .  

There is a Fish grip Jr that I think would be more useful .

All these posts reaffirms my belief that treble hooks are unsporting, unsafe, and the fishing world would be better off without them.  Last night fishing from my kayak I was using the Spo rat, catching lots of small bass.  But it was a pain getting the hooks out of their mouths.  And then one bass had a treble in its eye or near it.  One bass jerked so much it got away from the treble hooks and the rat was tossed up near my head.  If it was only a few inches over it would have hit my face.  

 

If you want to kill a fish then go ahead and use treble hooks.  But as sport, treble hooks are very unsporting and dangerous to all involved.  Hopefully some day treble hooks will go the way of the 8-Track player.  

1 hour ago, hoosierbass07 said:

 

If you want to kill a fish then go ahead and use treble hooks.  But as sport, treble hooks are very unsporting and dangerous to all involved.  Hopefully some day treble hooks will go the way of the 8-Track player.  

 

...but I like 8 tracks. 

58 minutes ago, scaleface said:

 

...but I like 8 tracks. 

What the hecks an 8 track???

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5 hours ago, hoosierbass07 said:

All these posts reaffirms my belief that treble hooks are unsporting, unsafe, and the fishing world would be better off without them.  Last night fishing from my kayak I was using the Spo rat, catching lots of small bass.  But it was a pain getting the hooks out of their mouths.  And then one bass had a treble in its eye or near it.  One bass jerked so much it got away from the treble hooks and the rat was tossed up near my head.  If it was only a few inches over it would have hit my face.  

 

If you want to kill a fish then go ahead and use treble hooks.  But as sport, treble hooks are very unsporting and dangerous to all involved.  Hopefully some day treble hooks will go the way of the 8-Track player.  

I would like to see lures with single hook too, I hate treble hooks. It just plain to unhook, dangerous to human and the fish. In fact, I think I might just change all my top water lures to single hook if I can find a suitable one(any recommendation?) other lure like jerkbait crankbait and lipless changing hook might compromise on action of the lure itself.

 

On 7/8/2017 at 3:12 PM, scaleface said:

I've been using Fish Grips a lot since i acquired them .  

There is a Fish grip Jr that I think would be more useful .

Fish Grip Jr. If you mean the 6" one, I don't think you would like it that much as 9" one. I used to have 6" one in my kayak but now change to 9" one instead. I use 6" one when bank fishing or to weight my fish.

My latest installment . Three years in a row . I pushed it through and snipped it off . Those dredger hooks are too sharp .