What is your worst fishing realted injury? Last October I went down hard on a very slippery rock during a Bluefish blitz. Wound up with a torn labrum (Shoulder) and needed surgery to repair it. A very painful injury that took many months to recover from (still is not back to normal)

Anyone own a pair of those.... I don't know what they are called... they attach to your shoes/boots and allow you to walk on the slipperiest of boulders? Effective? :huh:

Korkers, must have, saved my arse a bunch of times.

Dropped a downrigger ball last year after having already attached the line. Hook pulled past the barb into my finger. I had to suck it up and push the hook all the way through and cut it off, then pull it back out. It wasn't fun, but I was glad I had the right tools to cut it off and a first aid kit to patch it up and disinfect. Also, glad I wasn't alone. All good lessons.

I've stuck a hook in my thumb once when the fish flopped
around and I had my hand near its mouth. Nothing like having a 30 pounder flopping with a plug stuck in it's mouth on one set of hooks and the other set of hooks stuck in your thumb.
http://www.surviveoutdoors.com/emergency/fishhookremoval.asp
The "string method" worked and I went right back to fishing.
I took that fish home.

I have slipped on rocks so many times. Luckily no more then bruises. But when I was 7 years old. Fish hook right up the nose. That's my worse so far.

Few years ago had a 38 inch fish try and swim away with one set of trebles in it, the other stuck in my hand. All in the middle of the night up to my armpits in a moving body of water. Hook sunk into the bone. I tried to fish with the cut off hook hangin out of my pinky, but after almost passing out, the ER had to cut it out of me. Ruined what was gonna be a great night of fishin.
Slingah knows about last years digger.

When I was in Boy Scouts, dunno 11 or 12 years old or so, I had a nasty wormy hook go into my thumb, infect, and the "puss ball" grew from the base of my middle finger all across the thumb, almost down to my wrist. Was pretty serious infection I was told...

I've brusied a bunch of my body from falling from rocks, banged up my shoulder an arm and had limited movement.

Korkers are essential to catching fish on slippery rocks as a fishing rod is. Vitally important...

I was fishing a breachway with NilsC and he pushed me off the rocks! :rolleyes:

Actually, it was dark and I was tired. I took a walk off the rocks and messed up my arm pretty badly. My forearm had a welt the size of a softball - no exaggeration! The folks at the Emergency room couldn't believe it wasn't broken and my Dr. said he never saw a bruise so big that wasn't on a hip.

It took a month to heal and it hurt like he11! Even missed the S-B gathering at Don's place as a result. :mad:

When I was a kid I was fishing off of a dock for largemouths, my cousin was fishing with me and he was the worst caster I have ever seen. I no sooner said to him becareful casting that plug when he hooked me with two trebles in the back of my head, after my Mom almost went into cardiac arrest and a trip to the ER he got a hell of a beating :)

My first time down the canal was a learning experience..had my gear and a bucket of chunks. There was a bunch of guys there fishing so I'm sure they got a good laugh. The ol saying...if the rocks are brown...you'll go down..is absolutly true, I took a step and the next thing you know I'm looking at the sky wondering what just happened. I tried to play it cool by getting right up and acting like it didn't hurt but I don't think it worked....by the way it hurt like hell, never do that again!!

Cracked ribs froma jetty spill.

Had a hook in my hand twice. Once the fish was nice enough to push the barb right thru so I could cut it off and keep fishing, the other time I had to go to the ER.

Got bit by a bluefish 20 years ago and still have the scar.

I got a paper cut last year.:eek5: oooh ouchy! I hate when that happens.:rotfl:

hernia............................. ha ha ha ha ah ahahahah ah hah aha ha h a

While fishing alone @2:00am in a hard late Oct NW blow, at low tide on SW point BI, with a black bottle plug that for one reason or another hit me in the face hard and the front treble was stuck on my eye. Blood was streaming down my face....I tried to walk back to the truck but it is very slippery like walking on greesed cannonballs. I was afraid that if I fell I would rip my eye out cause the plug was still hanging on to the line and rod. I put a lot of slack in the line and tried again but still had trouble and slipped. I decided to remove the hook where I was standing (in hip deep water) then walk back. I did that and splashed some cool seawater on my face and blinked my eyes... :eek5: I could still see! I made it back to the truck, wiped the outside mirror off and looked at my eye in the mirror...There was a hole in the top of my eyelid and the bottom lid and a slight scratch on my eye. But I could see.

I called it a night after that. (I had a 47 in the cooler anyway) went to the cottage and took a shower, a few chill pills and passed out. I fished one more night then flew back home and saw a doctor on the mainland who said I was a lucky sob. I am more careful now.
My second worse was I shaved off my knuckle down to the bone with a fillet knife. (that really sucked, it took a long time to heal)
My third worse was when I was a kid (18 or so) while on my clam boat I tripped and fell and planted my foot on a mud rake, the teeth came thru the top of my shoe. I said "gee, it must have went between my toes it doesn't hurt" after about 5 min it started to ache, I took off my shoe and sock and my little toe fell off. They put it back but that was painful too.

Other then that just your normal bruises and cuts...

" your worst fishing realted injury? "


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. a BIG fish broke my heart.

I hope noone was on the USS Indianapolis....

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I said "gee, it must have went between my toes it doesn't hurt" after about 5 min it started to ache, I took off my shoe and sock and my little toe fell off.

Was it Larry JP? :angel:

the injury i had was when my father hit me in my eyes with a 3 oz sinker while making a inswing.

Indanite - quote:

" Was it Larry JP? "


What??? Who/what is Larry? No comprendo.

Casting three oz Kastmaters to bluefish on the boat with a friend. Casting sidearm with big wind to keep it low.He hit me in the side of the head with a full cast that got hung up. I never saw it coming. Rang my bell good but I considered it lucky I got no hook damage. It was like the cartoons. I had a lump pop up instantly. No blood though. Took a short break and kept fishin.

3 years ago a 20 inch taylor got away with a chunk of the palm of my left hand.

A nice lady at the hospital put it back on for me.