How many persons you hook?

[fish0n]

From what I have read so far, I have heard a lot of "wear eye protection" recommendations. One author said him and his friend prefer barbless hooks because "they are easyer to remove from the fish and from ourselves". So how often is it that one would hook-up with them selves (or others)? How many times have you hooked youself and or bystanders?

[deerslayer]

in the couple weeks i have been fly fishing i have yet to hook anyone. other then myself in the back of the head, well hat anyway. and that was only one time.

and i have been fishing hoodsport and kennedy creek. which is shoulder to shoulder fishing.

[raptorschild]

I've never hooked myself or anyone else with a fly rod. I've hooked plenty of trees though!!!

Not to hijack the thread, but Fishslayer, how is Kennedy Creek fishing right now? Many fish?

[StickFish]

Two guides, one hat, myself and a bird

[Chromaflage]

One day on the Big D, I was nymphing and had a fairly substantial split shot on my leader. I finished a drift, lifted the rod in the normal back-cast-chuck-and-duck fashion just as a gust of wind came up. The split shot hit the lense of my polarized glassed dead center. It put a small scratch in the lense. If I had not been wearing the glasses, it would have hit my eye and probably done some serious damage. Oh, yeah, watch out for VHF antennas too. :redface:

CrF

[Subtlety]

I have never hooked anyone including myself.

I have been hooked in the back of the neck when I was in boy scouts by another scout. I got a bass popper on a size 2 hook buried point in. My dad cut off all the stuff tied on the fly and spun the hook in my neck to expose the barb and snipped it off. I still have a nice scar about the size of a M&M (M@M) where he spun it and it tore a little meat.

Last year I was fishing on the Klamath and my dad hadn't fly fished in years and the first day we were out which was pretty windy he hooked himself right in the elbow but it came out easy since it was barbless.

That is pretty much my hooking experience..

[MacFish]

I rarely hook myself when I'm actually casting, it's all the times in between when I don't have control of the fly that I tend to have mishaps, usually in parts of my clothing that are just out of reach:)

[Snakebite]

Only myself1 My brother landed a nice Dalmation once. Snagged in the hip! My dad wasn't thrilled with the vet bill!:laugh: Moral of the story...don't walk down the trail with your spinner dangling a foot off the rod tip!

[LaterPeter]

how many times would you like to stick the hook in your eye?
I WILL NOT FISH WITH OUT GLASSES!!!
I would not let my student practice casting (with NO fly) with out glasses.
I always crimp the barb so I can remove the fly from my clothing or skin... wind can change, you could pull the fly free from some stuff... whatever.
Safe not sorry.
why is that so hard to understand????
Later,
Peter

[Geemo]

I've been hooked once, right in the lip! Ouch...

1990 Fishing the Firehole River in Yellowstone, got hooked as my son was casting. I was trying to get under the bridge out of the snow. It was my fault for walking into his casting zone. :redface:

Being early in the season, the MD on duty at the Old Faithful clinic had never removed a hook before. The medical assistant found a copy of "Hook Removal" instructions. The MD read through the steps and then gave it a try. Worked just fine.

As a souvenir, I have the "fly" from my lip now stuck in my fishing visor, a photo of the fly stuck in my lip and the instructions the MD used to remove it.

The year before, my son got a hook caught in his earlobe. A trip to the hospital ER was well over $100. Thinking it was going to be the same cost, I contacted our insurance for out-of-state preauthorization. When it was time to pay :bigshock: it was only $19 bucks.

Geemo

[kimmosan]

In 25 years of flyfishing, I've never hooked myself casting. But I have done a lot of nymphing with heavy flies and split shot, and have whacked myself in the back of the head a few times, especially on windy days. I never feel comfortable casting without eye protection. A wind gust, a missed strike, trying to pick up too much line, can mess up a cast. It doesn't happen often, but it only takes once.
I have hooked myself releasing fish, getting the fly out of a tree, and other stupid things. Barbless is better in these situations. Hooked a friend once when he got in the way of a backcast. Fortunately I only hooked a piece of clothing.

[TroutGirl]

Either you guys aren't fishing enough, or I'm just really bad at this.

Course, maybe I'm more honest too.

Most hookings, come after just tying on a new fly, getting ready to cast it out of my hand, and releasing too late, so to sink hook into fingers. Next landing a fish, flopping fish, line has some tension on it in the shallows and either the fish comes unhooked on its own, or my preliminary grab at the fish frees the fly to rebound into me.

Hooking others. Do I have to count the spinning rod accidents as a kid? At least two profound hooks into back of Dad's head back then. Ummmm, lets see, casting a spey rod with a triple nymph rig. A friend freed it from the brush and said, ok, cast, and so I did, but that timing thing...... one in the bicep, one in the forearm and the third into the palm of his hand. Please forgive me Skip, please.

I think there's a lot more times. I always come home from fishing with multiple new piercings in my hands.

And, well, I've had other hook incidencts, but, you get the picture. Wear the shades. If you fish hard, and get excited by fish, and stop thinking clearly, fish with shades.

[riverstalker]

I've never hooked myself casting, but I think everytime I go out I forget that I have a fly hooked into the little loop above my reel. This usually happens 2 or 3 times on a good day. :jester: Barbless is the way to go because of that. It makes it much easier to get hooks out of my fingertips!

[Walleyer]

Watched a guy walk up behind guys flyfishing the Kalama and got hooked in the eyelid,the guy that was hooked said "I'm gonna have to go to the doctor and get this removed",the flyfisher says "When you get that out can I get my fly back"

[Rosco]

Hooked a bat once :) that was quite interesting.

[negoc8]

foul hooked my dog, right in the tail!

[joemomma]

Just 1, my brother, hooked him 4 times, he now stands on my left!:laugh:

[Mokai]

I hooked my self in the right cheek casting once..A gust of wind came up in my back cast and sent my dry fly into my cheek..It was very cold out and my face was numb..I could not see it to remove it (unfortunately not barb less)..I handed my hemostats to my friend and said "make it quick" And he did..I caught a fish on the next cast...

[Grantspastor]

I knew an Optometrist that hooked himself throught the eyelid when a gust of wind grabbed his line.(no damage to the eye) He snipped off the fly and continued to fish all day with the fly bobbing around every time he blinked.

[Slow and Low]

I've been hookd by another and have hooked myself a few times. Hooked by a fish once from the dropper hok. Bad deal. Barbless are still tough to pull out.

[Acer]

Used to get hooked quite a lot while guiding from a boat,
I left a large yellow humpy snagged in the back of my PFD. Clients would always mention it's presence. I'd tell it was from a client.
That always made them a bit more careful.
My buddy snagged his new girlfriend in the lip w/ a back cast.
While walking back to help her he tripped on the line.
All his brother could ask was "Did you get into your backing"?
they are no longer dating.
Adrian

[AndyK]

My buddy snagged his new girlfriend in the lip w/ a back cast.
While walking back to help her he tripped on the line.
All his brother could ask was "Did you get into your backing"?
they are no longer dating.

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

[fishkisser]

Dosn't this stuff always happen when someones not around to see anyway? Hooked myself on the Mattole River with a #4 muddler minnow right in the side of my casting hand thumb . blamed it on a gust of wind but I have to admit I do get a little sidearmy when its windy now. clipped it off and fished my way down the river until I ran into Smokey Savage who deftly removed it for me ... ever try and cast with a fly buried to the bend of the hook in your thumb? its not a pretty site let me tell ya :redface:

[buhrly]

myself, a couple dogs, a few friends:yay::jester: isnt that fly fishin got to remove one from a friends thumb up on the yakima this summer. cut all the thread off, cut the hook and pushed it through:)

[abalone-girl]

I was fishing up at Ruth Lake (Trinity Co. Calif.) in the summer of 04. I just rebuilt this bamboo rod I bought at a garage sale for 15 cents (I kid you not). I was casting away and managed to hook a nice little bass on a large popper. Well, I guess I had compomised the integrity of the wood when attempting to melt the old glue off of the ferrel and the pole bend right over in half. I figured I didn't want ot lose both the fish and the rod so I reached down and grabbed the girl and sunk a hook, past the barb, into the crease of my fist thumb knuckle. It caught on a nerve and a tendon (anyone want to know why I knew this...?) The fish was flopping and fighting to get loose as I promptly dropped my stuff in the drink, not thinking that I had just reeled the line and the rod fell and planted the barb just a bit deeper. I got a death grip on the fish and flipped her off the hook and threw her back. I bit the line off with my teeth and held the lure in my fist until I could get out of the water. It was my right hand and I am right handed. I had to leave my stuff in the water and go get someone else to retreive it. I walked to the store above the lake and everyone was telling me to drive 2 hours to town and have surgery. ("I got no insurance" was my only response...) I purchased a box knife and something a bottle and went to work in my motel room. (I figured I deserved a bed to sleep in that night). I managed to get it loose after about 40 minutes of sawing. Not a good days fishing, but I saved myself about $1000+ in Dr.s bills. It healed just fine.

I also had the pleasure of flyfishing lessons, a gift from my father. I turned out to be the "Special Ed" student and was a constant companion to the teacher whom I graced with a fly, 3cm above his left eye. Class was cut short for me that day. I never did learn to flyfish "His way".
abalone-girl

[fish0n]

I was fishing up at Ruth Lake (Trinity Co. Calif.) in the summer of 04. I just rebuilt this bamboo rod I bought at a garage sale for 15 cents (I kid you not). I was casting away and managed to hook a nice little bass on a large popper. Well, I guess I had compomised the integrity of the wood when attempting to melt the old glue off of the ferrel and the pole bend right over in half. I figured I didn't want ot lose both the fish and the rod so I reached down and grabbed the girl and sunk a hook, past the barb, into the crease of my fist thumb knuckle...................


WOW!:passout:

[jschainsaw]

I hook myself every once and a while- The worst though is my wife- She was behind me and I let one go and forward it comes- Snag! right in the middle of her forhead, We had to take her in and have a doctor remove it- It was that deep! The next couple of months were not so fun on me or my wallet!:sick:

[FishonDon]

I remember one float trip down the McKenzie more than 20 years ago. I was actually with a guide, just he at the oars and myself in front. Twice that day while casting I hooked him in the ear. I think it was the same ear both times. I'm sure he thought I was a real bozo, and he was probably right.

Other than that, I have hooked myself several times. The worst came when I wasn't even casting. I was on the Deschutes, climbing thru the trees at the edge of the river to a goreous looking spot. I had my fly in the keeper on the rod and the flyline reeled up tight. With the rod in my left hand, I fairly large spider dropped out of the tree right onto my left hand. Now if you know me, spiders and I don't get along well at all, and that is an understatment.

With an instantaneuos fear provoked adrenalin rush I quickly swiped at the spider with my right hand. The spider was gone. But in my swiping somehow the thumb on my right hand caught the fly in the hook keeper. The fly buried deep in my thumb up to the bend in the hook, then as my hand continued its swipe, the hook tore through the meat of my thumb. Even today I have a scar a little over an inch long.:redface:

[Mokai]

Ouch !!!!:yeahthat: