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Location: Essexville, MI./Saginaw Bay. | I just finished watching for the third time in as many weeks, the BP show with Kieth K. and Tom Whoever fishing/trolling Lake Erie. I grind my teeth every time I see Kieth (or anybody for that matter) hold the walleye in one hand and work the hook free with the other.
In fact Keith comments and shows the bad shape his hands are in at the end of the show, after a day using the old apendages versus the pointed steel.
I've been put out of action twice for the day when I tried this tactic and ended up with a treble past the barbs in a tough part of my callused hands when the fish flipped unexpectedly. Once with a walleye and once with a King Salmon. Call me a sissy, but the first thing I think of before leaving the dock is needle nose pliars. 
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| OK, You're a sissy! But a smart one, like me. I am doing my best to avoid another sharp hook in the hand. I use pliers that I have available around the boat for easy access.
Take a look at Rangers photo album on MuskiFirst, and see what a buried 4/0 treble looks like! |
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Location: Upper Sandusky Ohio | Well you big Sissy!!! You mean you can't take a little hook in your finger, with a 6 pound Walleye thrashing around throwning the hook even deeper into your hemmorraging hand??? Man, I thought I was the only one who hated that feeling, WHEW!! My mom is Physical Therapist, and she got me a pair of Hemostats that lock. Awsome tool guys. You really ought to try them if you don't have them. Dan if it makes you feel better your not a sissy, your just a little smarter!!! |
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| Walleye Express - dude I'd never call you a sissy - you pack heat!  |
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Location: Webster,NY | Dan, you're not a sissy. You're too much bigger than me for me to call you one. Seriously though. I always have at least one pair of pliers and hemostats on board. When I go on someone elses boat, I always carry a Gerber multi tool. I try to remove the hooks with my hands but I'm not so stubborn that I won''t use the pliers when necessary. |
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Location: Essexville, MI./Saginaw Bay. | Originally written by Fuzzy on 2004-03-04 12:36 PM
Walleye Express - dude I'd never call you a sissy - you pack heat! ;)
Fuzzy.
Don't worry, I'm progressing quit well with my anger managment classes. The last guy had to actually shove me before I shot his big toe off.
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| Learned that lesson well. I was fishing with the kids off the bank up north and my daughter caught a nice northern. I picked it up with my left hand and proceeded to to attempt to remove the hook (didn't have any pliers ) and the fish thrashed and completely inpaled the hook through that skin between the thumb and the forefinger.
I killed the fish (now the treble had me and the pike hooked pretty well). I was able to have my buddy cut the hook out of the pike to get it off my thumb. I took the hook off the crank bait but still had the hook in my hand.
We were catching lots of fish (and it didn't hurt because of where I was hooked) so I just continued fishing. When I got home I went to the clinic and had them cut it out, lesson learned, them fish can be dangerous!
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Location: Annandale, MN | Yep...I've seen that (hook in the hand). If you fish/guide long enough I swear you will see the oddest and dumbest stunts a human can invent. I would say you have common-sense more so than a sissy.
Here's one, I was watching two guys on the Miss. try to dispatch a sheepshead. The comment from them was, "it's a rough fish that needs to be killed". So they proceeded to TRY to do that with a paddle and then with a pliers. Anyway, the guy in the bow stands up to toss it on the bank (he was holding the fish head first) when after he throws it, starts yelling. He cut his hand wide open on the gill plates, on a "sheep" they are razor sharp....oh, did I mention that I told them to watch out for that...talk about dumb & dumber!! Jon
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| Best one I saw was on the Big Pond back in '84ish. I was out with my boss for salmon, and he reeled in the first fish of the day, about a 7 pound Coho. He took it out of the net, and while holding it up, the fish struggled, and flipped over in his hand, driving one of the trebles into his thumb at the knucle, and just exiting on the otherside of his thumb nail. He screamed out, and immediately squeezed the fish between his knees. He squeezed so hard, the guts were coming out the vent! I cut the embedded hook off the fish, and after about 5 beers chugged, I proceeded to push the hook through enough to grab it with a pliers. A hard and quick twist extracted the rest of the hook, and he literally passed out from the pain. He came to a short while later, and we fished the rest of the day. I think the doctor the next day determined that the hook went through the knuckle joint!
I been a skeert of sharp hooks ever since, and take no chances! |
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Location: Maumee Ohio | Once on a deep sea fishing trip we were catching maui maui and the first mate was a kid about 17 or 18 he bent over the stern to grab a maui that was on just as he did this the fish shook himself free and the BIG treble hook embedded it self right through the kids forearm, he was bleeding all over. The capt took some wire cutters cut the barb off and slid the hook through. Wrapped up the kids arm and told him to go lay down, as the day progressed the kid looked like he was going into shock so we had to cut the trip short. It was nasty!!! |
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