OK Kids... Don't try this at home.

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Originally Posted by In The Surf

Ouch!
Jay's hand?

yes dave my hand. E.R visit at 6am before work is better then a cup of coffee to start the day.still hurts vics are not even helping

[In The Surf]

Hang in there Jay. Hand should feel fine in a day or so and you'll be fishing at some point this weekend.
Been there myself. Gibb's 3 oz bottle plug 2 out of 3 sets of trebles found their way into my hand. 3 barbs in all, 1 through and through and 2 buried (which I pushed through so I cut). About a 12#er thrashing on the other end but enough to make me nearly white out. I was alone which really sucked. Released the fish, walked a couple hundred yards to my vehicle, cut the hooks with a set of lineman's, splashed on some hand sanitizer (that really hurt), walked back to the water and soaked my hand for a moment and fished another hour or so.
Later on the Dr. Feel Goods needed a shot or two of Yukon and a few Newcastles to help keep the hand from reminding me of what happened.

[Flaptail]

Why anyone does not crush thier barbs is beyond me. They penetrate better and if you are experienced playing any fish you won't lose them. Accident waiting to happen, as this clearly shows by not crunching the barbs.

All kinds of infections the longer that hook was imbedded never mind the tendon and nerve damage.

[Jenn]

having flashbacks....

Did the same thing to the thumb only it went into the joint... fully barbs (duh)

[GonnaCatchABig1]

i wish i hadnt seen that.

while removing some rusty hooks from a gibbs danny (no rings on them. grrr) the eye snapped and took a rusty hook to the finger. it's barely a wound and i thought that hurt like hell. been poked a billion times nothing ever got past the barb. i think the day one does and looks like that, i'll go into shock. cause i'm a sissy.