It's all fun and games untill you get hit in the head with a sinker.

[whitey]

Man dies in freak fishing accident

In a freak accident, a piece of fishing equipment ended up killing a Roosevelt man Tuesday.

Jaime Chicas, 21, of Roosevelt, was fishing off a jetty at the west end of Jones Beach on Friday when his 3-ounce lead sinker came out of the water and hit him in the face and then lodged in his brain.

"Suddenly, we saw him laying on the rocks," said Jose Gonzalez, 30, Chicas' brother-in-law. Gonzalez and his cousin, who both had been fishing with Chicas, ran over to find Chicas bleeding from his head.

"We thought it was the fishing hook, because the thread was dangling by his eye," Gonzalez said through an interpreter. "We never could have imagined this."

The trio had gone fishing a few times before and visited the beach often, Gonzalez said. While the sun set, Chicas kept fishing, as the others began packing their belongings. As Gonzalez and his cousin walked toward the beach, they heard Chicas make a whimpering noise behind them.

After looking at X-rays, doctors at Nassau University Medical Center, where Chicas was taken, saw that the sinker of Chicas' fishing pole had just missed his right eye and entered his head at the bridge in his nose. The momentum of the lead weight continued across the middle of his brain into the back left side of his head, where it stopped, neurologist Imran Wahedna said.

"There was so much force that it kept going and it lodged through the back of his head," Wahedna said of the lead sinker. "The trauma was simply too severe."

Chicas was pronounced brain-dead at 2 p.m. yesterday, from severe head trauma and herniation, Wahedna said.

Wahedna and New York Fishing Tackle Trade Association president Gene Young all said they had never seen anything similar to Chicas' injury.

"This has to be a one-in-a-billion thing," Young said.

Chicas, a native of Lolotiquillo Morazán, El Salvador, had moved in with his sister, Nohemy, 27, and Gonzalez last year.

On Sunday mornings, he played soccer at Cantiague Park in Hicksville, where five men in the same soccer league were hit by lightning on Sunday, Gonzalez said.

Chicas is also survived by his parents, Jose and Feliciana Chicas; his wife, Fatima, and his 1-year-old daughter, who live in El Salvador; and his brother, Julio Chicas, of Hempstead.

Chicas' family is trying to raise funds to send his body back to El Salvador for burial.

[Flatdog]

Condolences to the family!!!!!!!!!!
But, no one over there, hear of a weak link on the lead? did he pull for a break off ? Just curious as to how a guy can get more or less, 4oz lead through the head, we get odd one's here, now and then, IE bad injuries, mostly with a thin "Bobber" float, terminal tackle caught up or fish has gone to ground in a weed bed guys pull , comes back like a dart right in the eye man down time for Medi-vac.
It is so Simple put two or three overhand knots on the "weight" leader so it breaks first not you!!
Again my condolences to the family and friends,this has to really be a bad day, to have a friend die this way.

[flatbottom]

my condolences to the family.

whitey I was in the ER one Sunday evening. My youngest twisted an ankle. There was a guy with a rapala F9 on his head. His buddy said he was casting and the back set of trebles caught him in the head. What was so funny.....when the nurse asked him a question ....and he shook his head yes ...the F9 jiggled and you could hear the other two set of trebles shaking around. Both guys were hammered and could hardly get the answers out.

again my condolences to the chicas family

[whitey]

whitey I was in the ER one Sunday evening. My youngest twisted an ankle. There was a guy with a rapala F9 on his head. His buddy said he was casting and the back set of trebles caught him in the head. What was so funny.....when the nurse asked him a question ....and he shook his head yes ...the F9 jiggled and you could hear the other two set of trebles shaking around. Both guys were hammered and could hardly get the answers out.

You sure it wasn't you with the Rapala in your head? It would explain alot.

[Boston Whaler]

Went out on an overnight tuna fishing head boat with my drunk brother and brother in-law.

To my horror I see the same two idiots with one of my pre rigged (egg sinker & hook) Penn International 50# rod and reels tied to a large scale pulling so hard they had the tuna pole almost doubled over. Just as I screamed stop, there was a large crack and I see my brother lying on his back. They pulled so hard they broke 50# line and the sinker hit my brother in the head, thank God it was a glancing blow, but my brother was sporting an egg sized knot on his head the rest of the trip.

We decided if the egg sinker hit a 1/4 inch lower on his head my brother would have been dead. You should have seen the size of the dent it left in the heavy steel of the boat.

When I asked them, "What were you guys doing?" they said they were adjusting the drag to the perfect pound setting they overheard me talking about earlier (which I had already set). I look at the scale they were using and it was in kilos not pounds......idiots

[Captain Michael Buffington]

Went out on an overnight tuna fishing head boat with my drunk brother and brother in-law.

To my horror I see the same two idiots with one of my pre rigged (egg sinker & hook) Penn International 50# rod and reels tied to a large scale pulling so hard they had the tuna pole almost doubled over. Just as I screamed stop, there was a large crack and I see my brother lying on his back. They pulled so hard they broke 50# line and the sinker hit my brother in the head, thank God it was a glancing blow, but my brother was sporting an egg sized knot on his head the rest of the trip.

We decided if the egg sinker hit a 1/4 inch lower on his head my brother would have been dead. You should have seen the size of the dent it left in the heavy steel of the boat.

When I asked them, "What were you guys doing?" they said they were adjusting the drag to the perfect pound setting they overheard me talking about earlier (which I had already set). I look at the scale they were using and it was in kilos not pounds......idiots

Jesus H. dude thats funny as hell

Mike

[flatbottom]

You sure it wasn't you with the Rapala in your head? It would explain alot.

bobble head flat

HERE IS YOUR PIC OF THE DAY SMARTY PANTS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Sea Craft]

Went out on an overnight tuna fishing head boat with my drunk brother and brother in-law.

To my horror I see the same two idiots with one of my pre rigged (egg sinker & hook) Penn International 50# rod and reels tied to a large scale pulling so hard they had the tuna pole almost doubled over. Just as I screamed stop, there was a large crack and I see my brother lying on his back. They pulled so hard they broke 50# line and the sinker hit my brother in the head, thank God it was a glancing blow, but my brother was sporting an egg sized knot on his head the rest of the trip.

We decided if the egg sinker hit a 1/4 inch lower on his head my brother would have been dead. You should have seen the size of the dent it left in the heavy steel of the boat.

When I asked them, "What were you guys doing?" they said they were adjusting the drag to the perfect pound setting they overheard me talking about earlier (which I had already set). I look at the scale they were using and it was in kilos not pounds......idiots

That is funny!

[Double D]

Got 21 stitches in my forehead from a sinker smack many moons ago. Who knew it coulda killed me

BW - you need to inquire about your family tree

[Hallnass282]

That sucks ... My girl stuck me in the eye brow last year. 7 stitches later I got that " honey I'm so sorry massage "