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Last fall I asked my friend Jon to join me, surf was big and we found fish in the shore break. Mixed bag of bass and blues, Jon had a five or six lb. blue on that flopped and went inbetween some rocks, as he went for the blue, fish flopped again catching his palm and a piece of rope in the same rocks. A few minutes pass and finally he says "do you have anything to cut hooks?" I look over and he is taking the waves bent over with his back to the surf. I take out the manley's and the eff'n cutter snaps on the hook! Luckily the vibration dislodged the hook from rope and hook from fish so he was left only with some hand jewelery. We were able to remove the hook and use superglue to get him back in the game. The bluefish made it back as well.
This one is just dumb; I fell asleep on the couch after degreasing/greasing a reel, woke up to phone ringing but rolled myself off the couch... to catch myself I put my right hand down directly on a die-cast model airplane tail which went through the index and middle finger part of my hand. It didn't hurt, just lots of blood. Later that day, the same airplane made its first flight.
I've been lucky but mostly cautious.
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