Id really love to laugh at your unfortunate experience, but i feel sorry for ya, for i experienced the same thing. I was fly fishing one wet and windy day, on one off the trout fisheries here in northern Ireland. I wasnt have much luck and decided to change the lure as you do when your not having luck catching. As i started, i realised a new leader was needed, so i bit the old leader off, lure and all and dropped them to the floor and proceeded to attach a new leader with a new lure. So....things all set now ready for more action, but i had forgot about the leader and lure on the ground, i reached down , lifted the lure and the inevitable happened, i was still standing the line the lure was attached too, so as i stood up, the line only went so far and the lure buried itself right to the eye. I wasnt as lucky as you old longtail, in a sense, the barbed end of the hook was not their for me to cut. I made my way to the office where you pay for your fishing and asked for a pair off pliers. When i showed the attendant what the problem was, their was a few wobbly legs, icluding my own by this stage. It had to come out, so being a bit off a brave lad, i decided to count to 3 and pull the lure from the finger barb and all still attached, needless to say i was unsuccessful and decided to cut what remained and covered it with a plaster, well i wasnt going to go home, as i paid for my days fishing. Im glad i stayed, for it was that day i caught my biggest ever rainbow trout, even though it was a stockie weighing in at 12lb. The next day i ended up at the hospital, i didnt even bother to go the night before, i was shattered so i left it until the following morning. I wasnt much off a brave man now, because when the nurse, god bless her cotton sucks, injected me with a freezing liquid, i didnt feel too well. She asked if i was Ok,OFF COURSE I Said, within secs off coming across macho, oh yes......I HIT THE FLOOR........FAINTED like an old pansie, and i still hadnt got the feckin thing out, but 5 miinutes later it was all over. Ive learnt a valuable lesson, and hope never to make the same mistake again....So old longtail, i totally understand where your coming from, its funny, but then again it feckin hurts. _________________
Location: On the moors you were told not to go onto
Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 6:57 am Post subject:
MAYFLY, yep were all big and brave when there is someone watching or a lovely looking nurse about. and of course with time we can sit back and laugh about it but at the time its a differant matter, hurts like hell but us stuboun old gits wont admit it.
Does anyone get carp talk magizine? theres a guy in there lucky to be alive. he got a 3oz lead caught across the bank so he was pulling with all his might and the lead came back at him. So fast it hit him in the neck and entered the wind pipe to lodge on top of his lungs. 200 stitches and a long op later hes still with us. i will try and get the pic a up as its a bdooly graphic warning not to go pumping the rod in an attempt to release the lead. _________________ Be that as it may, it is still my right to wonder the fields and coverts at night.
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I came second in that article comp,won a book,only took 25 minutes to write,no polishing or re-drafting as I only wrote it as a p**s-take because of the unusual location we fished in
I have a friend from Preston,lancs who lost an eye night-fishing in australia OLT,pulled to free from a snag,the compression popped the sinker from its hold,end result?Blind in one eye
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