I have hooked my own fingers three different times.
This was in about 2003, and was the first time. We were on Lower Buckhorn and a gust of wind put my lure on the roof of this boat shade.
One of the hooks was caught in the mesh of the sunshade.
I stretched to reach the hook with my pliers. The second hook was digging in as I pulled the first hook out...
SO...I foolishly held the lure in my hand to keep it from re-snagging...as I tugged again, the first hook popped free and sank the second hook into the pad of my middle finger past the barb...
I cut it off, grit my teeth and pushed it threw.
The second time was in 2005, I was pitching a crankbait...yes, I know you can't pitch a crankbait because of all the hooks...But I was doing it anyway, until my timing got a little off and I flipped the bait forward before my hand cleared the flight path...The rear hook went into the pad of my left index finger past the barb...
I cut it off, grit my teeth and pushed it threw.
Earlier this month, On the 11th of August I had a client. We were Musky fishing and at some point I pulled a rod out of the locker that had a large Rapala Husky Jerk attached. The rod was in a protective sleeve, but one of the hooks had gone through the material of the sleeve...I grabbed the pliers and pulled the hook free...
Deja Vu all over again as I pulled the middle hook into the back of me left index finger.
You might say one Husky Jerk was attached to the other...HAHAHA!
I cut the hook off but had no angle to push it though. So I put a Band-aid over it and kept fishing. That night I treated it with Iodine and changed the Band-aid. The next morning I had another fishing client, so I treated it with iodine again and went fishing. It wasn't until late that afternoon that I got to the Apsley Medical Centre. They gave me a Tetanus shot, froze the finger and removed the hook in a couple of minutes.
If you need medical assistance to remove the hook, they want as long a shank as possible on the hook.
Don't cut it off short!
