Redbow
Senior Member
Tell us about some of the injuries you have had while fishing in the past. I have had several over the years some from carelessness of course. I got a hook in the little finger on my right hand one day fishing the river with a hand line. My stepdad was with me. He said boy you gonna have to go get that thing cut out by a doctor. Stepdad couldn't get it out but he tried. I said no way no doctor is going to cut my finger. I got the hook out after wiggling it around for a while and giving it a good pull. It hurt like the devil though.
My cousin and I were in the upper Lake Marion area of Santee-Cooper the Rimini flats trolling for Stripers years ago down in SC. I hooked a nice fish, got him in the boat and reached down to take the Bayou Boogie out of his mouth. The Striper flopped and buried one of the treble hooks underneath the thumbnail of my right hand. Then the thing began to really flop around with the hook still in my finger and the lure in its mouth, those fish are very strong. All my cousin could say is, oh I know that hurts, yeah right it did. I finally got my foot on the fish pinning it down and told my cousin to hand me the pliers. Then I jerked that hook from under my thumbnail with one good pull. The wound bled for a while and it hurt and was very sore for several days.
I have had many Catfish stick me over the years and some Bream and other fresh water species stick me with their fins, not too bad of an injury but makes your hand or fingers sore for a day or two. Sometimes the very end of a fin will break off and stay in your hand or finger giving problems until you can get it out.
The wife and I were at the Georgetown SC jetties one day, fishing the very end of the south jetty that goes out about 2 miles into the Ocean. I hooked something that really pulled hoping it was a big Red Fish or Red Drum as some folks call them. I got the fish to the top of the water and it was a shark about 4 feet long. I was using a 9 foot surf rod to fish with that day. As the shark came along side the boat I grabbed it by the tail just as the hook pulled out of its mouth. The shark immediately swung around and almost got me by the left arm with its mouth. I let it go just in time not to get bitten, I was very lucky that day to say the least. I would have been in real trouble if that thing had gotten its teeth into my arm. That shark could have done some serious damage to my arm if it had gotten me.
Then the absolute worst thing was the stingray that got me in Winyah Bay that leads out to the Georgetown rock jetties. It was a small stingray it was barely hooked so I reached down with my left hand to release it but the ray was lightning fast with its barbed tail striking me on my left index finger. Almost immediately I felt the pain coming I had been warned about getting hit by a stingray by many old salts over the years and how painful it was when it happens. They were right in 5 minutes or so I was in severe pain. I told my wife that I might need to go to the hospital in Georgetown. The pain kept creeping up my left arm and that was frightening. I ran the boat back to the south island ferry landing and loaded it on the trailer. Then we headed home some 90 miles away. Finally after about two hours the pain began to subside and we were just a few miles from home by then. That was an experience I never want to repeat ever again.
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My cousin and I were in the upper Lake Marion area of Santee-Cooper the Rimini flats trolling for Stripers years ago down in SC. I hooked a nice fish, got him in the boat and reached down to take the Bayou Boogie out of his mouth. The Striper flopped and buried one of the treble hooks underneath the thumbnail of my right hand. Then the thing began to really flop around with the hook still in my finger and the lure in its mouth, those fish are very strong. All my cousin could say is, oh I know that hurts, yeah right it did. I finally got my foot on the fish pinning it down and told my cousin to hand me the pliers. Then I jerked that hook from under my thumbnail with one good pull. The wound bled for a while and it hurt and was very sore for several days.
I have had many Catfish stick me over the years and some Bream and other fresh water species stick me with their fins, not too bad of an injury but makes your hand or fingers sore for a day or two. Sometimes the very end of a fin will break off and stay in your hand or finger giving problems until you can get it out.
The wife and I were at the Georgetown SC jetties one day, fishing the very end of the south jetty that goes out about 2 miles into the Ocean. I hooked something that really pulled hoping it was a big Red Fish or Red Drum as some folks call them. I got the fish to the top of the water and it was a shark about 4 feet long. I was using a 9 foot surf rod to fish with that day. As the shark came along side the boat I grabbed it by the tail just as the hook pulled out of its mouth. The shark immediately swung around and almost got me by the left arm with its mouth. I let it go just in time not to get bitten, I was very lucky that day to say the least. I would have been in real trouble if that thing had gotten its teeth into my arm. That shark could have done some serious damage to my arm if it had gotten me.
Then the absolute worst thing was the stingray that got me in Winyah Bay that leads out to the Georgetown rock jetties. It was a small stingray it was barely hooked so I reached down with my left hand to release it but the ray was lightning fast with its barbed tail striking me on my left index finger. Almost immediately I felt the pain coming I had been warned about getting hit by a stingray by many old salts over the years and how painful it was when it happens. They were right in 5 minutes or so I was in severe pain. I told my wife that I might need to go to the hospital in Georgetown. The pain kept creeping up my left arm and that was frightening. I ran the boat back to the south island ferry landing and loaded it on the trailer. Then we headed home some 90 miles away. Finally after about two hours the pain began to subside and we were just a few miles from home by then. That was an experience I never want to repeat ever again.
There are more but someone else list a few things that have happened to them while fishing.
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