It Finally Happened.....

[Tom W.]

I went down to a local pond today amid all of the tornado watches and warnings, caught several nice bass on a ChatterBait, and decided to throw a broke back Rapala on my UltraLite. I caught two nice fish, and then on my next cast a gust of wind  misdirected my lure as I was casting and the Rapala ended up with a hook buried in my head, just behind my ear. It didn't hurt much if at all, but I was somewhat embarassed. My wife was with me, but she's handicapped and her  hands don't have much if any feeling, and I could see that she was starting to panic. I had her to cut the line, and I wrapped up my rod and we drove back to the house where a friend of ours could see what was going on. She had me put my head on the table and said "Cowboy up, here goes, and popped it out. I went back to the van where my wife was still sitting and went back to the pond. Had a great rest of the day!

[†·ĦÙŃŦÈŔ·†]

My problem is not with the wind but with my partner in the back of the boat .... my hat seems to "blow" right off me head even there's no wind present ....

[Tom W.]

You're not "front ending" him, are you?  Those might be subtle hints....

[wncchester]

[Tom W. " You're not "front ending" him, are you?  Those might be subtle hints.... "]

Tom, I had to chuckle.  I've had a few hooks removed from my hide too, only one of which I put in. 

My wife is my usual back seat partner, and a good one too.  But no matter how hard I try to position the boat gunnels so she gets to cast at the best targets, she usually wants to cast forward! And that often cuts me off from my only decent targets!  Oh, well, it's a low price to pay for having her gladly accompany me fishing.

Thank the Lord, we got good gals.

[Tom W.]

Oh yes, I don't think life would be nearly as enjoyable if the wife didn't want to go hunting or fishing, even if all she is able to  do is be there now.

[corbanzo]

I've had em in the hands, luckily not in the head.  I have definitely smack the crap out of the back of my head with some weights a few times.... ooohhhhwwwweeee that stings, why I pretty much always cast sideways now.

[rockbilly]

Several years ago an old friend moved from Colorado to Texas, he and I had spent many hours together fishing for bass in Spain (Lake Caspy, one of the most productive bass factories in the world).  It has been several years since he had fished, so I took him to one of my "honey holes," and as I was rigging a rod, I let him take the front of the boat.  He dropped the trolling motor and started throwing a spinner bait, about the third cast he hooked me through the left ear.  He thought he had hung up in a low hanging branch and started shaking the rod like crazy, this caused the hook to flip around and stick through my ear again.  When he looked back and saw that he had hooked me he went into a panic.  I told him to take the side cutters and cut the hook off and push it out of my ear.  After some struggle with the stainless steel hook he got it loose, I was bleeding like crazy, I wet a towel in the ice chest and held it over my ear for a while until the bleeding stopped.  We went back to fishing and caught several nice fish that afternoon.

The story should end here, but at the dock we were sortied out lures and putting them back in our respective tackle boxes.  Several weeks later he was fishing a tournament with me, I found a bunch of two-three pound fish holding in brush along a deep drop off.  I picked up my rod with a spinner bait tied on and put two or three fish in the boat, he didn't have a spinner bait tied on, but went to his box and rigged one and started fishing.  I watched as he hung a nice fish, it appeared to be much larger than those I had caught.  He got the fish to the boat, bam, it was gone.  He throws back in the brush, bam, another nice fish.  He gets it to the boat, and lost it.  After the third fish I asked him to let me see the bait..............yes, it was the same one that he had cut the hook off after "catching" my ear.  He switched baits, making sure the spinner bait with no hooks went in the trash bag, he managed to catch a couple of fish, but nothing like those he lost.  I told him my blood on the bait made a good attractor.

[spinafish]

too funny!

[GRIMJIM]

I'd a kept that lure in my tackle box for luck.

[Shaela]

how is it that a bass can have a treble hook in its MOUTH and not get hooked, but i can't even have one in the boat and not get stuck

[WD45]

About a month ago 3 of us were fishing out of my buddies 16 foot boat which makes things a little tight.
I was in the middle and we were on the river drifting down with the current fishing as we went. We went through a shallow place and I snagged something on the bottom not to far from the boat. We were moving at a good clip and as I told the front man to hold us still cause I caught a rock bass or log bass my line tightened up and my crank bait shot out of the water at my buddy. It wrapped around his head twice and got caught in his eyebrow. All the whilst he had a good size fish on heading back under the boat. I cut the line and it took him about 10 min or so to get the fish in with my favorite crankbait stuck in his head hanging down in front of his left eye. ( Fish was a  big nasty sheephead ). At least it wasn't dug in and we got him unhooked fairly easy. It gets real interesting when those things come out of the water like a rocket

[rimfire]

Cousin fishing for bass with topwater plug...hooked nice one wade fishing in the dark with only 5 ft of line off of the rod...fish came free with rod fully loaded...lure hit him in the eye hooked him with one treble hook in the brow...he reacted in the dark by grabbing at his face with his hand and hooked other treble in his hand.  Drove stick shift truck 30 miles to hospital with right hand pinned to face and blood all over.  Doctor admitted that was a first.

Funny as hell when he told us...but I am sure it was not that day.