BearBio
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A good argument for barbless hooks!
Fly Fisherman- Don't do what I Did
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rkittine
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Of course in some catch and release areas I just use barbless hooks to begin with. (Saves a lot of money to at a Trout Farm!)
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vigil617
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Let me get this straight. You were holding the small lure itself between your lips. Not the tippet, the lure itself, with the little hook in it, with the tippet hanging loose. And you were doing this so you could tie the other end of the tippet behind the larger nymph or streamer it would be trailing. Have I got this right?
I gotta say, you Virginians sure do tie on your lures in creative ways!
So, what are the minimum size and the creel limit on VaToms these days in Virginia waters?
If you've mastered this technique using the tiny lure, maybe you should graduate to say, holding a Mirrolure in your mouth next time.
OK, OK, I'll stop. Sorry for your discomfort, and glad you were able to extract that hook without any damage.
If it makes you feel any better, I've noticed in the past few years that most every time I dream about fishing, I'm always managing to get a hook stuck in myself at some point. I don't want to even think about what that might mean....
You know its a rough image when I almost let a sip of Blanton's spill out of my unintentionally, involuntarily gapping mouth!!
LVSteve
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A childhood buddy put a much smaller hook deep into the knuckle a bit like that. Had to go to the doctor who numbed the finger then cut it out.
Let me get this straight. You were holding the small lure itself between your lips. Not the tippet, the lure itself, with the little hook in it, with the tippet hanging loose. And you were doing this so you could tie the other end of the tippet behind the larger nymph or streamer it would be trailing. Have I got this right?
I gotta say, you Virginians sure do tie on your lures in creative ways!
So, what are the minimum size and the creel limit on VaToms these days in Virginia waters?
If you've mastered this technique using the tiny lure, maybe you should graduate to say, holding a Mirrolure in your mouth next time.
OK, OK, I'll stop. Sorry for your discomfort, and glad you were able to extract that hook without any damage.
If it makes you feel any better, I've noticed in the past few years that most every time I dream about fishing, I'm always managing to get a hook stuck in myself at some point. I don't want to even think about what that might mean....
Sort of like that! Was tying the lead fly on , a small black wooly bugger and getting ready to tie on the small copper John to the shank of the first holding it between my lips. Don't remember what happened next except a sharp pain and a few curse words! the wooly bugger- red copper john dropper was a killer today-8 rainbows no injuries!
I have used the string and jerk method on single hooks in my forearms and places where I could get at them. The ones in my ear and back had to be handled by my fishing partner. Never got a really big hook stuck in me like the one in the photo. I don't know if the string and jerk would work on that one or not. I never liked grabbing a fish hooked with bigger treble hooks with my hands. When those fish thrash around they can really bury a hook. A net and needles nose pliers are a necessity for pulling the plug out before you handle them.
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kamloops67
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Did it look like you were winking the whole time ?I knew a guy that drove 150 miles to the hospital with a one ounce lure hanging from his eyelid.
Wasn’t me. One my dad’s friends. We tried to help but he wasn’t having any of it.
Had a few behind the ear and behind under my arm that was a bad one because I couldn't see it, long drive home. I had a buddy berate me for filing off my barbs, he said "If you flatten the barb you at least have that little bump to give you just that much of an advantage, rather than filed smooth. I told him that I thought the whole idea was to take the advantage away and his response was "Thats tall talk from a guy that uses worms and other bait."
We used huge hooks to fish for sturgeon, we would file the point to a triangle so they would hang on your thumbnail, I've seen them sunk deep enough a guy had to have them cut out, I was always super careful around the sets when we dumped them over the side of the boat into a deep hole.
We would fish for sturgeon all through the night, the boat we were using was a long shaft 25 horse unit on a flat bottomed pram. The cardinal rule was "Never take your hand off the tiller." She was a handful on a tight turn at speed. One night two in the morning my buddies brother was running a set out and according to him his beer was vibrating off the seat ahead of him and he took his hand off the throttle just enough to grab his beer, the other hand was holding the main line to the rod on shore, next thing we knew we heard the motor revving loudly and grabbed the spotlight saw the boat flipped running upside down and no brother coming up. He had got caught in the hook and had thirty pounds of rocks in a plastic bag taking him to the bottom in ninety foot of water, he told us he kept jerking his leg in the hope that he could snap the eight pound leader we used as a break-off to a swivel and he got lucky, we had another boat and hauled him out, his trousers had long cut in them, his leg also, he was quiet for days.
We used huge hooks to fish for sturgeon, we would file the point to a triangle so they would hang on your thumbnail, I've seen them sunk deep enough a guy had to have them cut out, I was always super careful around the sets when we dumped them over the side of the boat into a deep hole.
We would fish for sturgeon all through the night, the boat we were using was a long shaft 25 horse unit on a flat bottomed pram. The cardinal rule was "Never take your hand off the tiller." She was a handful on a tight turn at speed. One night two in the morning my buddies brother was running a set out and according to him his beer was vibrating off the seat ahead of him and he took his hand off the throttle just enough to grab his beer, the other hand was holding the main line to the rod on shore, next thing we knew we heard the motor revving loudly and grabbed the spotlight saw the boat flipped running upside down and no brother coming up. He had got caught in the hook and had thirty pounds of rocks in a plastic bag taking him to the bottom in ninety foot of water, he told us he kept jerking his leg in the hope that he could snap the eight pound leader we used as a break-off to a swivel and he got lucky, we had another boat and hauled him out, his trousers had long cut in them, his leg also, he was quiet for days.
J. R. WEEMS
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