Wounded!

[nastygunz]

"So first thing this morning I hop into the ford ready to do battle, I mean work for the company, my fly rod which is 9 feet long is poking over the front seat, so I hop in and feel a sting in my ear, look in the rear view mirror and have hooked my ear on the fish hook on the end of the pole....

....after a few seconds of reflection to plan my escape, I tugged gently, nope, she's a-holding on...wiggle the hook, no escape, finally I took the old military mantra and put it into effect, " A wrong action is better than no action at all"... and popped the hook out of my ear, along with a chunk of Me, and drove into work holding a hunting glove to my ear to staunch the blood flow...now I kinda know how the fish feels!..."

[coyote101]

Ouch! It looks like that hurt.  I once hooked myself in a finger with a small, barbed hook. I couldn't get it out backwards, so I snipped it off below the eye and drove it through with a pair of needle nose pliers. It hurt a bit, but not as much as I expected. 

Pat

[nastygunz]

Damn thing was stuck right in the cartilage, she didn't give up the ghost easily ha ha

[nastygunz]

It was a Muddler Minnow streamer.

[Okanagan]

Muddler Minnows tended to catch big ones!

[nastygunz]

It Did that day

[nastygunz]

When I was a kid and started fly fishing the only fly I used for the first two years was a muddler minnow. And I got plenty of fish on it.

[nastygunz]

I was at a public boat ramp one evening and a guy hooked himself in the back of the head with a big green hula popper. He came over and said can you give me a hand with this, I looked at that thing buried in the back of his head, treble hooks everywhere, I said I'm going to cut the line for you then you need to head to the emergency room buddy.