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08-03-2008, 11:54 AM
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Retired Surfer
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Sunset Grill
Posts: 9,511
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NY man killed by lead sinker
Melville, N.Y. A man fishing off Long Island is dead after a three ounce lead fishing weight attached to his pole struck him in the face and dug into h is brain.
Relatives and a physician say Roosevelt resident Jaime Chicas died tuesday from severe head trauma and herniation. Relatives say the 21 year old was fishing with his brother-in-law and cousin at Jones Beach when the accident happened.
This was in the Saturday/weekend Ledger.
Actually it was in the Patriot Ledger July 30th.
Last edited by Swimmer; 08-03-2008 at 12:07 PM..
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Swimmer a.k.a. YO YO MA
Serial Mailbox Killer/Seal Fisherman
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08-03-2008, 12:11 PM
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Afterhours Custom Plugs
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: R.I.
Posts: 8,642
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sinkers don't kill people- people kill people.....
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08-03-2008, 12:23 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: warwick RI
Posts: 182
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Now that is a sucky way to go. If I ever get killed like that I hope somebody will be good enough to stage a more dramatic accident and keep the truth to themselves. Say I was surrounded by dorsal fins and I was waving my knife when I lost my footing...
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still by the firelight
and purple moonlight
I hear the rusted river's call
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08-03-2008, 02:03 PM
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Covered in Sawdust
Join Date: Jan 2008
Posts: 358
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I read the whole article and it said that his sinker was likely stuck in the rocks on the jetty and he started yanking on it and it released and hit him in the eye socket. Supposedly his brother turned around and saw him face down on on the jetty growning. UGH
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08-03-2008, 02:31 PM
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Retired Surfer
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Sunset Grill
Posts: 9,511
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Quote:
Originally Posted by afterhours
sinkers don't kill people- people kill people.....
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Thats it, a sinker license is the next thing we'll have to face. Safety classes before your allowed to buy lead weights, or jigs. |
Swimmer a.k.a. YO YO MA
Serial Mailbox Killer/Seal Fisherman
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08-03-2008, 03:41 PM
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Very Grumpy bay man
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Rhode Island
Posts: 10,824
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...and now another good reason not to chunk...
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No boat, back in the suds.  
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08-03-2008, 04:16 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Here and There Seasonally
Posts: 5,985
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My wife's Uncle Bill was smacked between the eyes by a four oz pyramid. Knocked him on his arse and opened up his noggin. Doc lost count of the stitches.
Dark night, heavy fish. When the fish hit the sand the hook came out and bang! He said that he thought someone shot him from a boat. He drove from Truro to Bolton to his doctor with one hand on the wheel and the other holding his nose on. My brother in law mounted the weight on a plaque as an award.
Shame the kid was killed .
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He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
Thomas Paine
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08-03-2008, 05:00 PM
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Here fishy fishy
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Whoville
Posts: 2,266
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Quote:
Originally Posted by afterhours
sinkers don't kill people- people kill people.....
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LMAO, although it's really not funny. RIP (again) |
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08-03-2008, 05:16 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: Whitman,Ma.
Posts: 4,263
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OUCH...
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I'm going where I'm going... 
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08-03-2008, 05:41 PM
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Pete K.
Join Date: Jun 2007
Posts: 2,953
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*side note.....Some sort of eye-protection is MANDATORY for me while snagging bunker... Ive had a snag hook graze the edge of my face and ear once while frantically snagging at night from shore...
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08-03-2008, 06:53 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: plymouth,ma
Posts: 1,142
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The scary thing to me is how easy this would be to do in the canal with a jig head and the heavy gear we use... I've had jigs shoot past me over my shoulder twice already, same place, large fish both times.
One of the spots I fish has a back eddy coming off a rockpile, outside of the rockpile water flows one direction, inside it flows the other. It does this for atleast 50 yards, running parallel to shore maybe 15 -20 yards from shore.
Sometime a really good fish stays down, and you need to lift them over the edge. When a fish gets in the back eddy, all of a sudden its going much faster as its going with the current, and as it gets past you the jig head can turn and it can come unhooked while you are leaning back trying to lift it off the bottom.
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08-03-2008, 06:54 PM
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Oblivious // Grunt, Grunt Master
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: over the hill
Posts: 6,682
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr. Krinkle
I read the whole article and it said that his sinker was likely stuck in the rocks on the jetty and he started yanking on it and it released and hit him in...... UGH
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I think NIB killed a big jig the same way. |
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08-03-2008, 07:05 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Maine
Posts: 4,547
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Quote:
Originally Posted by numbskull
I think NIB killed a big jig the same way.
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I think it was last year. Quite a goose egg if I remember right. |
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08-03-2008, 07:44 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Landlocked in my own prison
Posts: 1,031
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That's it. Now I'm definately brining my girlfriend fishing with me. Right after I wedge a few pyramids in the rocks!
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