Wear Your Sunglasses or Clear lense

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Thought this would be a good time to put a reminder about safety on the water, and to always were glasses whether they be sunglasses or clear lenses.

WARNING: Graphic Images

http://thelimpcobra.com/2012/12/08/why-you-should-always-wear-glasses-and-only-use-barbless-hooks/


this is what can happen, be sure to watch the video at the end to see how fast something like this can happen

 

[instapump416]

SOLD me...i dont even want to click the link

 

[Shmogley]

oh god thankfully i wasnt eating when checking that

 

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SOLD me...i dont even want to click the link

i know what mean....but sometimes you just gotta see what can happen to change your mind on things, for me, im digging out my safety glasses from college for early morning/overcast days/ near dark fishing

 

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oh god thankfully i wasnt eating when checking that

yea, thats why i decided to put in the warning before the link

 

[BASSMASTER19]

oh god, that first pic had me closing my laptop, i always wear glasses. A while ago i was bass fishing with a crank and after a few jumps mr LMB spat the hook and sent it hurling to my face, one of the trebles ripped trough my hat and the other put a deep scratch in my glasses. Scary part about it was that the sun came up the cast before and i decided to put them on. I wear the same glasses and hat to this day :shock:

 

[Jacklake]

I am not going to open the link - my imagination is enough. When we teach fly casting on the water we ALWAYS ask the students to wear a hat and glasses. Fly lines can become errant even easier than hardware. No hat, no glasses = no lesson.

 

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I am not going to open the link - my imagination is enough. When we teach fly casting on the water we ALWAYS ask the students to wear a hat and glasses. Fly lines can become errant even easier than hardware. No hat, no glasses = no lesson.

yea, the pictures are pretty bad, but heres the video at the end, not graphic, but it shows how it can happen

http://vimeo.com/42076119

 

[usernamehere]

Iv seen some fly fishing guys casting in tight, crowded places like its a routine. I avoid anyone with a fly rod like a plague. Had a fly take my hat off one time.

 

[hamiltonangler94]

Wow scary stuff...thankfully the worst I have had it is a hook in my finger still hurt though!

 

[MuskieBait]

I need to wear prescription anyways...but that didn't help when my buddy zipped a musky bucktail by my ear, caught the arm of my glasses and ripped it off my face. I usually put on a leash for my glasses, but on that particular trip I left it at home in another backpack. The only trip I didn't have it I needed it.

He's lucky the bucktail didn't catch the back of my head, my ear or the side of my face. It has to do with inexperience and over-excitement after seeing a musky followed my bucktail to the canoe. He simply didn't watch his cast or remembered we were fishing in close quarters inside a canoe... :roll:

 

[MuskieBait]

Iv seen some fly fishing guys casting in tight, crowded places like its a routine. I avoid anyone with a fly rod like a plague. Had a fly take my hat off one time.

It is the fly angler's responsibility to watch his casts. Unfortunately, there are those who are not aware or ignorant of that fact.

If I'm making a 50 foot cast, I will have 60 feet to my left and 60 feet to my right from anyone at the minimum. Most of the time, I prefer not to fish that close to anyone anyways...but when my buddy and I are fishing the same spot together, we give each other adequate space to cast so as not to hit each other with our flies. I give the same courtesy to others on the river just the same.

Same can be said of the float fishing crew though...a few times I've had guys free their rig from snags without announcing and I've had floats, shots and hooks fly at me when I'm in the downstream position. We were not even fishing that close together but the recoil on a float rod is something nasty.

 

[IR4Jflyfishing]

It is the fly angler's responsibility to watch his casts. Unfortunately, there are those who are not aware or ignorant of that fact.

If I'm making a 50 foot cast, I will have 60 feet to my left and 60 feet to my right from anyone at the minimum. Most of the time, I prefer not to fish that close to anyone anyways...but when my buddy and I are fishing the same spot together, we give each other adequate space to cast so as not to hit each other with our flies. I give the same courtesy to others on the river just the same.

Same can be said of the float fishing crew though...a few times I've had guys free their rig from snags without announcing and I've had floats, shots and hooks fly at me when I'm in the downstream position. We were not even fishing that close together but the recoil on a float rod is something nasty.

Oh god... I took a raven stick float off the back of the head on opener.. Thought I got shot, put a nice hole in the back off my dome...

 

[kickisasssebas]

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[ridingonfumes]

That made me shiver.... Worst I ever had was a 3/4 oz rooster tail in the back side of my knee.

 

[OCDComputing]

Good grief!!! Those pictures just gave me the willies.......

 

[Klik]

not a hook, but a stick that was pretty camouflaged against the back shrubbery poked me in the eye as i was trying to put my rod there. could not open my eyes for 20 hours, till a piece of bark came out. it was pretty scary, i am lucky my cornea didn't get scratched. now i wear sunglasses all the time.

 

[Alfiegee]

Thought this would be a good time to put a reminder about safety on the water, and to always were glasses whether they be sunglasses or clear lenses.

WARNING: Graphic Images

http://thelimpcobra.com/2012/12/08/why-you-should-always-wear-glasses-and-only-use-barbless-hooks/


this is what can happen, be sure to watch the video at the end to see how fast something like this can happen

Thanks for your warning, JMatt. After viewing the pics I also did not want to see a video.
I also wear prescription lens glasses and I actually spent a lot of money on them to have shatter resistent glasses due to work. Not sure how much they would help in some of the pictured situations. Food for thought.

Alfie.

 

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Thanks for your warning, JMatt. After viewing the pics I also did not want to see a video.
I also wear prescription lens glasses and I actually spent a lot of money on them to have shatter resistent glasses due to work. Not sure how much they would help in some of the pictured situations. Food for thought.

Alfie.

the glasses keep your eyes protected, which in my mind is way more important than a hook in the cheek or the ear. the video is not graphic what so ever

 

[Bow Man]

All I can say is that's f - -k'n nasty.

But thanks for the reminder.