On Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:03:22 -0500, Vic Smith wrote:


I'll see if
I can find the Minnesota back out with fishing line trick.

String-Yank Technique?

http://www.aafp.org/afp/20010601/2231.html

On Mon, 09 Apr 2007 12:47:55 GMT, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:

On Sun, 08 Apr 2007 21:09:46 -0500, Vic Smith
wrote:

Got me to thinking about how come such utterly ridiculous crap
never happened to me. The only real answer I can up with is: dumb
luck.

I've had a lot of hook accidents including picking a monster with more
treble hooks on it that you could imagine out of the back of my head
with a mirror. (That client never went with me again, I'll tell you
what.)

Sounds like you might have made good use of the little hook safety
lecture on that trip. Being a pro with clients you know nothing
about, it might pay off.

I've got to believe that the double thumb hook up is a tall tale - as
in urban legend or something.

No, it was a sheepish admission by somebody on the CS forum while
discussing something else - grounding I think.
Truth/stranger than/fiction. And maybe it was a Lazy Ike.
I can study one carefully before gingerly picking it up, and it still
manages to prick me half the time.

I second Doug's scalpel trick, but mostly when I seriously hook
myself, as I do at least two/three times a year, I just cut one end or
the other off and pull it through. That's where a handy little can of
numbing spray can help a lot. :)

Numbing spray. I'll add a small can to the kit.
Cutting the hook out with a scalpel is sort of a no-brainer after a
little practice. Hell, if I wanted to be a surgeon I'd just go to
medical school. I'll see if I can find the Minnesota back out with
fishing line trick. Think it was in Fishing Facts years ago.
You've provided the only useful info yet and seem to be a generous
soul. Mind if I trouble you a bit more?
What time is it?

--Vic

On Mon, 09 Apr 2007 19:42:28 -0000, thunder
wrote:

On Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:03:22 -0500, Vic Smith wrote:


I'll see if
I can find the Minnesota back out with fishing line trick.

String-Yank Technique?

http://www.aafp.org/afp/20010601/2231.html

Terrific link. Thanks. I remember something different than
string-yank. It was complicated enough I didn't get the concept,
but that just might be me. If I find it, I'll post it.
I'd probably just use pliers to yank it instead of tying a string,
being impatient when some metal is sticking in me.
I once stupidly flush embedded a 5/8" staple into my finger and had it
out with a needlenose in less than 3 seconds, even though the pliers
were in a toolbox across the garage. I was a blur.
Don't know how some of the guys here are seem to almost take it as a
matter of course. That stuff is major trauma for me. Had a rock crab
cut my thumb once and I damn near fainted.
I just hate it when that happens.
I might just be a pansy, but I prefer to believe that rock crab got
some kind of toxin into me.

--Vic

On Apr 9, 9:04 am, "JoeSpareBedroom" wrote:
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On Sun, 08 Apr 2007 21:09:46 -0500, Vic Smith
wrote:

Got me to thinking about how come such utterly ridiculous crap
never happened to me. The only real answer I can up with is: dumb
luck.

I've had a lot of hook accidents including picking a monster with more
treble hooks on it that you could imagine out of the back of my head
with a mirror. (That client never went with me again, I'll tell you
what.)

I've got to believe that the double thumb hook up is a tall tale - as
in urban legend or something.

I second Doug's scalpel trick, but mostly when I seriously hook
myself, as I do at least two/three times a year, I just cut one end or
the other off and pull it through. That's where a handy little can of
numbing spray can help a lot. :)

On a related note, for anyone lurking in this fascinating discussion: If you
ever go to an emergency room and the attending nurse or physician hesitates
when pondering which tool to use to remove the hook, leave immediately.
Once, I had an embedded hook in the heel of my hand. My whole family was
away, and I couldn't figure out a good way to stabilize the hook while
cutting it. The physician's assistant wandered off and came back with tin
snips, which would've torqued the hook in every imaginable direction, making
the whole process nastier. I left.

I mentioned this episode to a dermatologist of my acquaintance. He gave me a
prescription for some cream intended for people who need to inject
themselves, but can't handle the pain. Takes about 20 minutes to numb the
area. "From the same neighborhood as lydocaine", as he explained it.- Hide quoted text -

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That's probably Emla creme.