This thread makes me want to fish with iron gloves

Haha, im right there with ya.

Think of it as ocupational hazard, I´ve been hooked several times, worst one was when accidentaly the fish slipped from my hand hooked me in the tumb and there I was with a jumpy 3 pounder firmly attached to my thumb.

I had the same thing happen to me once with a rapala stick bait. I caught about a 3# on the back hook (it has 3 hooks) went to unhook the fish and it slipped. The top hook burried it self in my thumb and then it started shaking around hanging in mid air by my thumb and from the shaking the middle hook also hooked part of my hand. The hook came out of my thumb alright because it shaking ripped a huge hole in it.