Does anyone know how the MLF cameraman is doing, the guy who got a jig or punch weight in the eye?

Nobody?

 

Hope he's doing OK, it's a career threatening injury apart from everything else.

Found this in an article from another site...

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Larson underwent two surgeries over the weekend to remove some of the fragments and repair his eyelid. He was released from the hospital on Tuesday and flew to Buffalo, where a member of his girlfriend’s family is a neuro ophthalmologist. He will require additional treatments, possibly as early as next week, either in Buffalo or in Boston.

“The good news was today (Wednesday) was the first day they didn’t pull additional pieces of glass out of the eye,” Larson said.

The prognosis is as good as one could hope for after such a scary accident. He said surgeons determined the muscle that controls the side-to-side tracking of the eye was severed and that could limit his ability to move his eye in toward his nose.

“At this point, I should regain my vision,” he said. “I’m able to discern shadow shapes and to a certain extent numbers of fingers, but it’s pretty jacked up right now from all the ointments in there.

“It’s been an ordeal,” Larson added. “I have great people around me and all the doctors are doing a phenomenal job. They all have said how lucky I am to still have an eye.”

Read more: http://www.another site.com/docktalk_article/16850/mlf-cameraman-injured-during-filming#.WFQIQVxzN_g#ixzz4T11IVDqN

Beyond that I'd suggest following up on MLF's Facebook page...

Thank you. I will post something on their facebook page. I used to work as a photographer and remember how I was particularly scared of something happening to my eyes. Horrible accident. I can't imagine how the angler must have felt when it happened and ever since. 

Nothing from their facebook yet.

Wow, this is the first I had heard about this.  It's interesting that shatter/impact proof lenses were not on their radar.  You would think at some point in all the filmed bass tourneys over the years someone would have been hit or had a close enough call that the issue would have come up.  I know the first time I tried to pull a snagged lure out only to have it rocket into my forehead was a real shocker and I am very careful to stop and think for a second before I resort to a hard pull or sharp tug. 

It's a real scary deal. I'm sure we've all had situations where a bait has come flying past us. If you're looking through a camera you're not going to have the reaction instincts that you would have normally to avoid the impact. Rather disappointed by MLF. They haven't responded on their facebook page. You'd think/hope it would be something they would be concerned over. I hope the camera man is doing ok and wish him a happy Christmas and a full recovery in 2017.

Hope it all works out fot him. I lost a tooth last week to a jig. I thought it was hung up, pulled on it and next thing i know... Pow! Right in the sucker

God Bless to your eye.