Hooks into hands/legs - heads???
Just wondered who has had hooks stuck where and how.
Always remember the first one of many,6/0 through little finger when I was about 10-12,at mouth of the Donnelly river,plyers wouldn't cut butter so had to hold in with them to file thru the hook,washed in salt water ,good as gold.
Were fishing at the Abrolos islands running sharkline when mate got one in his hand.Were using heavy gauge hooks like a fat 14/0 tarpon.Went in between his thumb and forefinger and followed the finger around in the curve of the hook,all you could see was the eye and 1/2 inch of the shank.Tossed up whether to drive the 6 hours in ,drop him off and drive back out to pick the gear up and back in again [we'd planned to come in the next day anyway] or wait untill yhe next day,pull gear then come in like planned.He said he was ok and would wait.Had to put him under at the hospital to cut it out.Glad it was him.
Step son got a 10/0 tuna circle in his hand,told him to take another hook with him due to doctor may not have seen that type of hook before,just as well,had to cut it out.
Let us know of your experiences with hooks
feral1975
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Still remember when I was
Still remember when I was ten trying to cast a pilchard with a set of gangs on my old mans snyderglass rod and landing all four hooks which were ganged in the centre of my back , took two of them to hold me down across the back seat on their laps to get to the hospital , then got them cut out . Also seen a Japanese man at the north mole last year in salmon season burying three hooks ganged in the side of his chin
crasny1
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Hooked
As a youngster in South Africa at about 10 I was paddling a canadian out with a live bait in a bucket between my leg for my father trying to catch Kabbilyo (?spelling but basically a Mullaway). Needless to say the reel jammed and I wore it in the left inner thigh, high up and close!!!!! Still got the scar to prove this. Surprising how fast you learn to reverse paddle
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alfred
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Hook - left index finger,
Hook - left index finger, last digit, stuck in the bone, had to get it cut out.
Hook thru left ear. Hole still there.
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Adam Gallash
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Not me
Haven't done any major damage to myself (touch wood) but the pooch got a 1/0 long shank in his paw last year from one floating around in the backyard dropped from the tackle box. End score was one extremely upset girlfriend, one closed vet in Exmouth, about $150 in fuel and food and almost ran out of fuel near to Minilya due to 35knot head wind, $495 vet bill and 820km round trip to Canarvon and had to drive back that night through kanga and cow central as Canarvon was chokkas. Wasn't a fun mission, SIGH.
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mt-ed
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Was out fishing with two
Was out fishing with two mates and I was just sat there getting comfortable when up come my mate with the eye of a hook and about a foot of line hanging from the side of his nose saying " What the Fook do you think of this?".
" Hey that a cracker, How did you do that? It looks like it's stuck in your nose for real. Gis a look" says I.
So giving the line a tug to see how he has made it stick to his schnozzer, the whole of his nose moves?? At the very same time he shouts" What the effin 'ell you doing? It's a real hook stuck in me nose you nipple".
Well laugh, I nearly wet myself. All you could see was the eye of the hook with about 2mm of the shank showing and trailing a bit of line.
On closer inspection, up his hooter with a torch, the point and bend had not even come out in the nostril but had neatly threaded it's way in the skin and was buried firmly in there.
Cue more hysterical fits of laughter.
"Well get it out" he says.
"Ehh, Are you sure you want me to have a go?" I say " would you not rather go to the hospital?"
" Yeah, but we are fishing and I am effin sure your're not going to take me there now that we have found somewhere not frozen over to fish".
" You could be right" I laugh.
Well I had a go but the way the nose kept moving and the look of his eyes staring at me just put me off and I just couldn't do it. I think the giggles got to me too.
Well we sat there for 5 hrs until we had enough, but the thing that got me laughing more was when people out walking stopped to talk to us, they just kept staring at his nose but would not even mention it.
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wadetolley
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hooks
When i was up in broome we made these busted ar$e lures with bits of copper painted silver ...hole in the front and hole in the back for your treble. We were on the dole and picking watermelons..so we didnt have a lot of cash to throw around.
Anyway we were out off beagle bay in a school of tuna and queenies and my mate shannon hooked a fish, so did i and my mate dave was winding flat out on his old Penn 8500...when he had a strike and then it spat the lure. The lure flew threw the air and stuck on daves neck, this was ok untill shannons fish swam threw the loose line in the water and took off...just about pulling dave out of the boat. After a laugh we cut the lines and the performed surgery to remove the treble..was a day to remember!
There is also the day a deckie on my trawler that got circumsised when a rope caught him in the wrong spot..whilst leaning against the gunnels..but thats another story!
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Was fishign lancelin had a
Was fishign lancelin had a 5/0 suicide through my scrotum from standing over someones rig while they were not aware. Had to go to hospital get the damn thing surgically removed , not fun when your 13 and some docs looking at ya nuts, and your seeing how much blood is coming out of them.
Through the scrotium
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Port Hedland
fishing with my young brother in the creek out at Redbank and i managed to hook myself in the calf through my jeans. I had to force it all the way through and then snip the barb off as i could not drive with it in. The brother still has hysterics every time he mentions it - me on the bank with my strides half down and him laughing too hard to help.
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Timmy
New a guy called Tim B@#%&l who put a hook through his finger whilst out fishing on a mates boat. We took lots of pictures of it and put them on our personal 'Brag Board' as well as the actual hook! Non of us want to take the hook down as we're all too scared as to what diseases we might catch from it!
At the time, Tim was told to "Toughen Up Princess!" and no way do we go home early for such a minor thing as a hooking! I mean!... a hooking is what we're out here for!
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KneeD It!
Many years ago as a youngster, I had two large piles of assorted sized hooks on the floor. My mother yelled for me from another room and I got up, tripped on a whole in the carpet and landed with each knee making contact with a pile of hooks.
Good shot! Not! 
Fortunately, non of them went in very deeply, but there was a sh!t load of them and turning each knee into a pin cushion was not very pleasant.
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callum
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10grm whitebait lure
last weekend got a 10gram white bait lure in my leg, reuben tried to perform sugery with baited up scissors, bu eventually ripped it out
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Barrd Up
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Out with Jersey last
Out with Jersey last weekend. Returned and retrieved the boat and were at the wash down bay. Standing outside the boat and went to pull a rope out, it somehow flicked out my whiting rig that was sitting on top of my tackle box. End result small whiting hook embedded in forehead and a sinker smacking me in the ear. Lucky being small hook, just pulled it out, but a lesson learn't.
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Was carrying a set of gangs
Was carrying a set of gangs in my hand with the rest of the rig (3 meters of line with swivel etc hanging on the ground and as i was walking i stepped on the line causing the gangs to firmly imbed themselves in my hand
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Adamp
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I got a smallish treble
I got a smallish treble (Halco Laser Pro) stuck inside of myshoulder had to go to freo hospital to get it removed.
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