Worst fishing injuries.

[J_T_R]

I was fishing the Glades in Scituate, which if you don't know is basically just cliff like rocks. To make a long story short, I slipped on the rock and the first thing to hit the rock was my face. I then blacked out for a second and slid into the water. When I came up my brother was cracking up until he saw the blood pouring off my face. I broke my nose and had 4 stitches and got a pretty good concussion. The worst part of it was that I was in the emergency room all night for 10 hours.

[ilovetwofish]

This hopefully wiil be a great thread.I always am wondering how often and how bad someone is getting hurt fishing.For me i've been fairly lucky up till this point knock on wood.Lets see I was walking the little rocks in gansett it was low tide, I didnt own korkers at the time,and of course I thought I could walk on the rocks. I went down broke my rod in half', hit my head not to bad, banged up my elbow preetty good, cut my finger open,hurt my tailbone.I was down and out for almost 2 weeks this was in the fall during primetime fish.Next time I went out I stopped at wildwood outfitters and got a pair of korkers.

[chris L]

broken tail bone 2 tears ago while entering a river off the bank and slipped and landed on the tail bone . some serious pain for 1 week before I went and had them tell me yes its broke . an occational hook in the hand/finger

[Mr. Sandman]

Besides death while fishing, the worse injury I have heard of was a flying gaff the went into an anglers face and came out just below his ear while at the canyon 130 miles offshore. (heard it on the VHF radio when I saw the CG jet and helo making the run out to help them) It was one of those new " top shot" styles http://www.anglerscenter.com/acc_topshot_flyingaffs.htm


Personally, beside numerous hand injuries my worse was two sets of trebles in my face with one in my eye while fishing at night (2:00am) by myself at SW point BI in November...a long time ago. I was freakin cause the plug was still attached to my line and I couldn't walk back easily without falling, my eyes were shut. It was a nightmare...it turned out OK but at the time i thought I was going to be blind in one eye.

[american spirit]

i know about a guy who hooked himself with a 3/0 treble through his finger. the barb prevented him pulling his out. it was deep and the muscle went into spasm. i don't think he had cutters to push it out. he went to the ER with waders on and a plug hanging off his finger. i believe he also continued fishing that night.

[Joe]

Falling on rocks and fish-handling injuries...
Take note: You won't hear too many, "I could have used a self-inflating floatation device," type stories. You have to live to tell that story.