Good trip gone bad
 

Started off the morning with calm seas, a beautiful moon setting and a georgeous sun rising. Started getting into some nice fish, then the bottom dropped out. Hooked into (what would probably be the most expensive hardhead of my life). Went to unhook it and it got me!!! The barb went completely through my middle finger and into my thmb. Took me a few seconds to figure out why I couldnt separate my thumb from my middle finger. Finally pulled my thumb loose then realized it was all the way through my other finger. Knew I was done then. Had to head in and go see urgent care. Just glad it wasnt the first fish of the morning. Be careful fellas with those lil bastids. Definitely not something I ever want to expierience ever again!!!!

Ouch... Glad to see you can still type!

Heat will make the pain go away


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bourbon too

Ouch. Nice catch. T. S.?

We finished up not long after yall left. My boys said they are not touching hard heads any more.

Matt, Im pecking at the keyboard like a chicken.lol

Didnt try heat, just iced it to make it back in, Pain was so bad I almost passed out. The tunnel vision was setting in.
Boggy, I might be right there with your boys with not touching them. Was telling my boy, I might start bringing the shotgun and blasting them off the hook. lol Got a kick out of your boys slinging them today, like some lil pros.

Hope you are ok!!!

As for right now I am Big C, we will see once these drugs wear off

Yeeyigh!!

I don't touch hardheads. I grab the hook with pliers and shake them off, or just cut the line and retie a new hook if they swallowed it.

Fishing for bull reds we use 7/0 to 11/0 hooks, so we don't catch many hardheads any more, especially the small ones with the sharpest spines, and they hardly ever swallow the hook.

me too, and I don't let the kids or wife even get close

Had one go thru my shoe and my big toe after shaking it off the hook with pliers. I feel ur pain...my daughter laughed til she saw the blood lol...hope u heal fast!!

Been there, not as bad but the barb went threw middle of finger and was pointing out the other end but didn't break the skin. I screamed like a little girl. Took me a long time to not look like a little girl taking those lil bastards off the hook. Glad you're ok!

Wow, I almost get week just looking at your pictures. Heal fast.... Was this out of the point? Many years ago I had a treble hook lodge into my head, needless to say it was a long trip from T. S. to the hospital. It was hard looking at everyones expression of this lure hanging off my head. Haha

Get ya one of these. They dont act crazy once you touch em with it.

have been stung but nothing like that.

seen one of those 8 inchers fly of my Buddys hook and stuck in his shin on the way down. Fish never hit the deck.

Now all of them get the ak-rite.

Those hook Flippers work good too. Just gotta hold em over the side so they don't accidently flip back into ya

Heat breaks down the protein in the poison. Wife had to go to emergency room for one in the foot and that is all they did was hot water. Doc said even if I could have put her foot under the pisser of the outboard it would have made it better.


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Correct. I had one go thru the meat in between my thumb and pointer finger. Didn't know skin could stretch that much (this was before witnessing childbirth). I had red streaks going up my arm and was about to have to lay down before passing out when my FIL got me some hot water to soak it in. Almost instant relief.

I would have stuck my arm in boiling water if it would have made it better!

Ice is the worst thing to use for that are stingrays. Always use hot water. As hot as you can get and stand. It will help break down the protein and stop the burn.

What's the post op pic look like?

Stepped on one as a kid, and ever sense then I first cut the barbs off of ever catfish I catch. I figured at some point this will help someone else out in not getting stuck.

Well, I didnt know about the hot water thing, I was just thinking, in my pre black out state, That ice might numb the finger and maybe not as much pain. I see the point of the water taking the burn out, but I still had to deal with just the pain of the barb impaling my finger. Didnt take a pic of the post op yet, but its really not that bad other than swelling and a lil purple hue. Very Very sensitive though. Nurse actuallly pulled it all the way through instead of coming out the way it went in because of the barbs. Lil black chic came in to give me a shot in my left buttcheek, My wifes sitting in the corner. I pulled my shorts and draws down enough to give her full access, as soon as she finished my shorts fell all the way to the floor. I turned around and said, you didnt have to pull my pants down in front of my wife. Lil gal didnt know what to say.lol When she left, she said nurse will be in shortly. I then asked her if she was gonna pull my pants down too?

L M A O!!! That's awesome!

Bruh that's good stuff!
Sorry bout the finger Jody!

I always use the fish flippers after see guys get stuck by hardheads.

good trio gone bad.
 

Hope your feeling better by now. I had one come off the hook years ago and stuck in the top of my foot. I hit it about 3 times with channel locks to knock it off of my foot. I put my foot in the cooler of ice till it was numb but I could still feel it throbbing. I felt better after I beat the catfish with channel locks...he looked like a pancake with a tail.

Looks to me like you need some medical marijuana. Man it hurt me just to see that, I hope you heal up soon.

when i was a wee lad i had one stick me right in my sternum, still hurts when i think about it and that was 30 years ago.

Its feeling alot better today fellas, just trying to get through all thes antibiotics now. Kinda nausiating sometimes. THanks for the concerns. Almost ready to head back out there.