Go get a shot in the arse !

Some hockey fan you are. SUCK IT UP!

I'm joking ... well sorta joking

Rub a little dirt on it! Seriously, though, I hope you heal quickly.

Boyer

Use a wading staff next time

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I know I should...

But this is seriously just a small soft-bottomed stream. I managed to find the only sizable rock to fall on.

I had a little fishing injury of my own this past weekend. Although it did not involve fly fishing gear. While floating the Yough with my wife and three daughters I thought I'd do a little fishing in the calmer sections. So I took along a spinning rod and my bass pack. Geared up with a rebel Crayfish about a mile or two down from Ramcat I was casually drifting and casting to the shoreline. With rapids ahead my wife said Ok lets get ready for this...keep in mind I am the only one with a clue to paddling. I said one more cast as we approached within 100 yards of the rapids. Sure enough a bass strikes and I bring it in, a 13" fish full of life, I thought as I looked at the approaching rapid, How am I gonna get these trebles out of this fish....Then I did the unthinkable, I tried to lip the fish, One flip and I had the fish and lure attached to my pinky. (See pic below). Soon after a few expletives the fish flipped off and here I was with three females turned to look at my histerics while we drifted ever closer to the Rapids.

I immediately started giving orders to paddle me to the shore or island, Hard right, get me ot the shallows on the left. As they paddled I knew we wouldn't make it and fortunately for once during the trip, we became marooned on a large rock. Couldn't have happened at a better time.

After trying several times to pull the lure out myself, Pushing the hook through and trying to flatten the barb, I realized I didn't have the Hutsba to do it myself. I had my wife pinch the fingertip around the hook and I yanked it out. Bled like a stuck pig!. Tore off a piece of turnakit bandage from my shirt and wrapped it up. Then we dislodged from the rock and we were on oour way again. We were at least 7 miles form the take out.

All in all it went down pretty good considering the circumstances.

From now on I will use the pliers to remove the hooks from the fish so I won't need to use them to remove it from my fingers.

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I am glad to hear you both are alright even though you probably endured a little pain. I must say though Maurice your injury could have been minimized by fishing correctly with a fly rod and barbless hooks. Fred

Hope your finger heals up Mo - that looks and sounds like about as bad a hook wound as you can get (in the hand). I try never to lip a bass hooked with trebles and am pretty careful about single hooks as well - but you knew that too. Stuff happens.
I've long ago learned never to fish without some band-aids, gauze, and Neosporin in a zip-loc bag in my fishing vest.

After that I may have to start carrying a first aid kit. Good Idea FI

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Good idea for everyone Fish.Mandatory for boats and should be'IMO' in ones car /truck.Hook removal is never fun having experienced it a few times myself. It sort of the price one pays for his fun.
I'd include some pain relievers in a kit as well as the bandaids etc.

Jay L,
i'd see a doctor. a few years back while fishing Ridley i did the same type of thing, my shin felt ok for a day then i played a golf outing the next day and it started to hurt pretty bad, swelling didnt go down so i boogied on the 17th hole and ended up in the hospital for 2-3 days with an infection (cellulitis sp?). The Doc said it's a good thing you came in. Good luck

JEFF

Thank god for barbless hooks...

I guess we know how the fish feel now!

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Ive been doing this for a long time now. I havent needed it yet but thank god for that

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Dear Boyer,

Best answer in the thread. I was going to suggest he let a dog lick it, but your answer is just as good.

I too hope Jay heals up quickly but there is more than a little truth in your "rub some dirt on it" comment. Things are sometimes too neat, sterile and perfect today. That costs us in the ways that infectious diseases spread because people lack immunity to many things that are quite common in the world.

I can't imagine giving up wet wading and I've suffered more than a few cuts and scrapes while doing so. Suppose Jay had been walking across his backyard and heard someone call him causing him to stumble over a tree root?

If he skinned his knee would you all be calling for him to stop wearing shorts and only walk in his yard while wearing goalie pads and a helmet?

We are coming quickly to the point where the milquetoasts will rule the world. What a wonderful world it will be!

Regards,
Tim Murphy

Actually Tim, I'm a little embarrassed to admit this, but I've been wearing waders at times of the year that I always used to wet wade. It's not that I'm afraid to get wet, I just friggin' hate ticks and it seems like they've exploded around Clarks, Rattling, and the Swattie in the last ten years. I used to wear shorts and sandals up to the East Branch of Rattling, now I wear waders to walk down the street to the Swattie. About 5 years ago I found a tick "on" me, if you know what I mean, and it's had me freaked out ever since. I agree that to some extent that people are too sanitized these days, but you've lived in SEPA, so I'm sure you could imagine what's floating around in the water Jay's fishing. Yeeuck! :-O

Boyer