that is hard to look at

I feel you pain. Had that happen to me about 10 years ago.

Had one go in on me once while setting here in my store, I was just picking it up and grabbed the counter and in the finger, deep and at about the same angle.   But silly me just kept working at it and turned it up and pushed it on through and out, took about 30 inutes but I did it.  Don't consider it being tough just stubborn.

i'll tell ya what fellas, i was as careful as careful can be so that exactly this wouldn't happen.

here's the story...

i was throwin a senko and not catchin so i switched to the xr50 that you see pictured on the first page. i started catchin (mostly perch but there was a bass mixed in) and ended up hookin into a small perch. he got all 3 hooks from the front treble stuck into different sections of his mouth, two on top under his eyes and 1 straight thru his lower lip. his mouth was too small to try and lip him so i grabbed my rapala lip grip scale and my hook outs and went to work.

i was having the hardest time trying to get the 3 hooks out because the fish wasn't cooperating and they were so perfectly hooked in his little face that it was just a total b!$&h trying to do anything. so i decided to get down in there and try to work the lure around the fish instead of the fish around the lure. well no sooner than i grabbed the xr50 he starts flippin out, i dropped the lure and pulled my arm back and as i did the rear treble sank in and the fish's little spasms just sank it even further.

my buddy joe ended up having to cut the front treble out of the fish's mouth, and i tell ya i tried like hell to get that hook out myself but it just was not happening. the er nurses told me "i did good" when they saw how deep it was.

two days later and the most painful part is the tetanus shot that i got in my right butt cheek. it feels like the worst charlie horse ever.

OOUUUCCCHHH!!!!! That is a bad one. But next time consider a perch hooked like that a sandwich or bait!

Luckily, I have only skin hooked myself and those close to me a few times.  Those pictures look terrible but I would have whipped the camera out and done the same thing.

pucker factor .....10

man that totally sux

reminds me of a couple years back we were fishing 3 guys out of a 16' boat and the guy in the front hauls off for a long distance cast with a 3/4 oz daredevil and snags the guy in the middle seat right in the forearm man you should have heard the swearing I thought they were gonna come to blows. we laugh about it now.

Ouch, was on a great top water bite for spots, and did that using a ChugBugg caught up in some grass and shook it loose. Bait comes back aiming at the head, I duck and cover up using the right arm and wham, into the right arm funny bone past the barb...

Well we park the boat head to the local med center ER, have the thing cut out of the funny bone. Go back to the lake tie the same lure on and continue the best top water day I have ever had for spots....

The scent of blood.....  Hey, there's a thought, we have craw, anise, garlic,....no "blood" scent? ......hmmmm  David,....you could have something there...

I feel for you. I have the inside of my left index finger still numb after 6 years from an episode similar to that. Good luck with it.

hmm...that reminds me of a recent experience of mine

http://www.bassresource.com/bass_fishing_forums/YaBB.pl?num=1217385063

only it was my head

Dang that sucks for you!!! I am always as cautious as I can posibly be when it comes to fishing with trebles... Every now and then I will accidentally BARELY hook my self but never that bad. God I can only imagine I hope it never happens to me!!!

And at the ER they always ask you if you caught anything.

Holy crap man. You all healed up?

And i thought i was the king of getting attacked by trebles!!! Last week i had a muscle shirt on, and i had a dang aruku shad fling up and catch my underarm OUCH!! on the same day i had it catch my thigh then i stepped on a d**n swim bait!

Holy crap man. You all healed up?

Yeah dude, all healed up. Although once in a while I'll hit my finger on something and the nerves that got ripped up inside will send a jolt through my hand. Nothing major but there was definitely some damage done inside.

yup that was a bad one... I had the same thing happen to me with a 7 inch stickbait... thats why i use pliers and probably a boga grip would help to..

yup that was a bad one... I had the same thing happen to me with a 7 inch stickbait... thats why i use pliers and probably a boga grip would help to..

I actually was using a lip grip scale by Berkley, along with my Rapala multi-purpose pliers, needle nose pliers and hook outs. Just couldn't get the hook out with all that hardware so I tried holding the lure and... well, you get the picture.

ah ok.. glad to see that your healed... i think yours might have bled more than my injury did.. got mine in the thumb