bentflyrod 0 Report post Posted September 28, 2006 Been there! Done that! Must be the color of the fly! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DaUP 0 Report post Posted September 28, 2006 hmmm conspiracy??? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
majestyja 0 Report post Posted September 28, 2006 thank you for the reminder to always pinch the barb down! ouch!! :bugeyes: Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
madkasel 0 Report post Posted September 28, 2006 Ouch! I used to just pinch the barbs down on bigger hooks... not on the size 18 mini-barbs or whatever... but changed that when 10 minutes of a fishing trip was spent disengaging a hook from my son's jacket. Now I pinch 'em all. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Steeldrifter 0 Report post Posted September 28, 2006 what were you gonna do with the knife?!?! :hyst: :hyst: :hyst: pushing it on through and clipping the barb then slide it back out works most times with smaller hooks. Its the streamer hooks that make that method a bit ore painful Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DaUP 0 Report post Posted September 28, 2006 the problem with that aproach is that i would have had a 1/4 of meat to push it through Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Steeldrifter 0 Report post Posted September 28, 2006 Honestly though....it really doesnt hurt any worse as long as you do it quick. Probably hurt more leaving it in there till you got to the hospital I would imagine Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DaUP 0 Report post Posted September 28, 2006 actually for some odd reason i dint feel it unless i touched it :dunno: Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gill buster 0 Report post Posted September 28, 2006 Been there! Done that! Must be the color of the fly! note to self... never tie another fly with black and orange. :crazy: Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mikechell 0 Report post Posted June 4, 2020 Revived an old topic just because I wanted to use the "Ouch" in the title. Anyway, this injury has nothing to do with fishing and fish hooks ... it's all about a string, electric weed whacker. They CAN cut skin! Just FYI ... I'll try to make some space to the picture, it's a little graphic. I did this last week, and it looked a bit worse, then. * * * * * * * * * * Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Mad Duck 0 Report post Posted June 4, 2020 Ah, that explains the bandage on the back of your leg in the last video. That does leave a question to be answered...How the hell did you manage to string trim the BACK of your leg??? Oh, and yes...OUCH..Sorry! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
samsonboi 0 Report post Posted June 4, 2020 He was probably ogling a blue car or maybe a kid's blue scooter. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mikechell 0 Report post Posted June 5, 2020 It's a relatively new trimmer. My last one was a bump feed ... this one is automatic. It feeds a little each time you let go of the trigger. In certain areas of the yard, I'm used to stop and start trimming, bumping the trimmer when I need more line. With this one, it rapidly starts over feeding. So, if I have too much line out, and I don't want more, I have to let it run while I hold it up and move things out of the way. While moving something out of the way, I didn't realize how far the trimmer had swung ... until I felt the pain in my calf. Most of it is very superficial, and it wasn't bleeding badly, so I kept trimming. About a minute later, I saw my sock getting red. It looks worse than it is ... but that area at the top is going to take about 3 weeks to heal, I think. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Steeldrifter 0 Report post Posted June 5, 2020 21 minutes ago, mikechell said: It feeds a little each time you let go of the trigger. No way I could use one like that. When I weed whack I constantly am goosing the trigger like feathering the gas in a drift car lol. Get a bandage over that, looks a bit deep in the one spot 🤢 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mikechell 0 Report post Posted June 5, 2020 It's been bandage continuously since it happened. I've got a couple of picture from last week, just after, and they are a little too ... juicy? ... to put on here. Pretty gross, actually. I let it dry a little before taking the above picture, so it wouldn't look so "horror show". Bandage went on right after the picture. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
