While albie fishing at the hooter about 6 miles south of Wasque, in the boat by myself I hooked a 32" bass and while I reached down to lip it she shook hard and drove a Owner Stinger treble
deep into the base of my thumb/palm.
Trying to remain calm, I reached over with the other hand and hauled the fish into the boat. Now the plug is in my hand and the fish and she thrashes
(I emit an explitive...you might have heard it), anyway I pin the fish down between my my legs and cover the fishes eyes with a rag and manage to de-hook the fish from the plug. Now somewhat relieved, the plug has one of the trebles deep in my hand, I worked on it for about 10 minutes and finally ripped it out the same way it went in. It was not in a position where I could not cut it and drive it thru. I almost called it a day and went back but I washed it up and it stopped bleeding and was able to get a couple more hours of fishing in until I had problems steering the boat with that hand. Thank night (after washing and putting anti bac stuff on it) it swelled up and I showed it to the doc who said " hmmmmm, that looks bad, take this 4X per day. It seems to be getting better now. Going to give it ago tonight, I think I can hold the rod.
What was weird was while the hook was still in my hand I was thinking what a good photo that would make for this board and our local paper during the derby....but I didn't have my camera and I was not about to keep that thing in my hand until I got home.