TAKING ONE FOR THE TEAM

[WAHOONBOX]

YESTERDAY THE BEAST HEADED OUT FOR A BIT OF COMMERCIAL FISHING ON HIS CONTENDER....FOUND TRIGGER FISH AND B-LINERS...SOME OF THE TRIGGERS WERE OF WORLD CLASS SIZE....5-6 LBERS....I AIN'T KIDDIN HERE EITHER...

HE ALSO WAS TO HEAD OUT TODAY AS WELL SO I MET HIM AT THE FUEL DOCK LAST NIGHT TO UNLOAD HIS HAUL AND ICE HIM DOWN....WHILE HE CLEANED UP HIS RIG AND PREPARED FOR TODAY'S JOURNEY, I GUTTED AND HAULED AWAY HIS B-LINERS TO THE MARKET FOR HIM...

I GOT HOME AROUND 8:30 PM....SHOWERED...GRABBED MYSELF A BOWL OF FRESH WAHOO SALAD....AND SETTLED IN TO WATCH THE ATLANTA RACE WHICH I HAD RECORDED...

LET'S DEJA VUE FOR A MOMENT BACK TO THE CLEANING TABLE AND THE B-LINERS....ALL IT TAKES IS A STRAIGHT ASSHOLE CUT WITH A SKINNING KNIFE FORWARD AND RIP OUT THE SMALL GUT SAC....I REMEMBER WHILE REACHING IN AND PULLING OUT A GUT BEING STUCK BY A FISHBONE AND THINKING OH SHIT THAT HURT!!! ...I WAS WEARING A COMMERCIAL GRADE HARD RUBBER GLOVE ON THAT PARTICULAR HAND...

OKAY ....SO I WATCHED THE RACE....THEN SURFED THROUGH THE LATEST VERSION OF DOG THE BOUNTY HUNTER AND FINALLY WENT TOO BED

TODAY I WOKE UP AROUND 6 BELLS ...DID THE USUAL THING...BANG'D ON THE KEYBOARD SOME....AND SHOWER'D AGAIN...FOR I COULD STILL SMELL FISH-ASS ON MY HANDS

I STARTED TWISTING #8 WIRE FOR TUESDAYS TRIP WHEN ALL OF A SUDDEN GEEZUS H THRICE... A PAIN SHOT THRU MY LEFT HAND....NO I WASN'T HAVING A HEART ATTACK...HELL THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN A BLESSING....BUT I DID LOOK CLOSE BETWEEN MY FINGERS TO SEE A RED PLACE THAT HURT LIKE HELL WHEN I TWISTED THE WIRE.....I GAVE IT A GOOD SQUEEZE AND BINGO LOOK WHAT POPPED OUT... B-LINER BONE-FIN....DOESN'T MATTER WHICH, CAUSE BOTH ARE ONE IN THE SAME BAD-ASS


YEP, RIGHT THRU THE GLOVE THIS BAD BOY WENT LAST NIGHT ONLY TO BE DISCOVERED TODAY

[Nimrod]

Ouchie!!

[Brendon]

Durn, that could have gotten infected easily. You got lucky with that one. I got bite pretty bad by a bluefish once and asked a doctor friend two days later if it looked infected he said if it was infected I would have been in the hospital already.

[Captain Michael Buffington]

unloading about 800 hoos off the shogun one day wearing gloves i grabbed one wrong and a dorsal fin went into my index finger. Ouch, no problem I thought...Tried pulling it out and it wouldn't come. Gragged it with duckbills and pulled...It just hurt like hell. Finally walked across the street and had the doc cut it outHe said it had barbs on it. I never would have figured it would have taken a scalpel to get a hoo dorsal fin out so watch out

Mike

[BTH284]

Battle scars Glad you got it out and it did not get infected.

[SeaBiscuit]

Women love scars!

[pier_man0909]

had a somewhat similar experience. I stepped on a mullet a couple years ago and the sucker stuck to the bottom of my foot for a sec before falling back into the water and swimming away. hurt like hell. a 3/8 or so piece of spine broke off into my foot at the bone. told myself that I would go to the doc only if it got infected and came out in a "pocket" about 3 weeks later. damn that hurt.

[liv2fish20]

here's one for you, 12 years old, standing on the front of the boat, cat-fishing with a friend, he catches about a 10" cat, and goes to throw it back in the water, when he did, the fish finned him and he jerked, slinging the fish my way. Me wearing shorts, took it in the back of the thigh, OUCH! it couldn't come out, had the fish by the head and tail, jerking trying to get it out of my leg, as the barbs had opened up inside my leg. What seemed like eternity the fish finally came out, and brought tendons with it. yet another trip to the emergency room, to have them stuffed back in and sewed up. did i mention OUCH! lesson learned when cat-fishing, wear some damn pants!

Ted

[netman9]

here's one for you, 12 years old, standing on the front of the boat, cat-fishing with a friend, he catches about a 10" cat, and goes to throw it back in the water, when he did, the fish finned him and he jerked, slinging the fish my way. Me wearing shorts, took it in the back of the thigh, OUCH! it couldn't come out, had the fish by the head and tail, jerking trying to get it out of my leg, as the barbs had opened up inside my leg. What seemed like eternity the fish finally came out, and brought tendons with it. yet another trip to the emergency room, to have them stuffed back in and sewed up. did i mention OUCH! lesson learned when cat-fishing, wear some damn pants!

Ted

That does hurt! The Mrs. Netman had one of our young fishermen do the same thing while taking "2nd place"
in the Pirates Cove kids fishing tournament 4-5 years ago. Little 8" catfish stuck in the front of her thigh flopping around before pulling it away/out. Sounds like yours was pretty serious.

[liv2fish20]

Thats not good, hope it didn't change the little one's mind 'bout fishing.