Went fishing with a couple of mates yesterday. Fishing was pretty good and cought plenty of fish in the 1-2kg mark.
While fishing, i noticed a school of kurper with a couple of decent fish in the school and decided to take my ultra light with the smallest lure in my bag and see if i could get them to bite. after about 10 mins or so of "irritating" them, one finally took the hook.
landed the fish and was pretty chufed with myself! in the process of removing the hooks, the fish slipped out of my grip and pulled the top trebles in to my index finger and thumb. this kinda sucked...
Evreytime the fish wriggled, i could feel the hooks burrying themselves deeper in my fingers so naturally i used my other hand to hold on to the lure. this left me with the problem of not being able to remove the hooks from the fish. after some frantic yelling, i manged to draw the attention of my mates. luckily they came to my assistance and removed the hooks from the fish. (and released it safely)
we cut the hooks free from the lure and then cut the trebble in half. now i could at least open my hand again! pulled the big part of the trebble with the "looped line around the hook technique ", which was fairly painless. the other bit not so much...
only about 2mm of the cut hook was sticking out. so while one friend was holding my wrist down, the other proceeded to yank it out with a longnose pliers.
I had a cold one and waited for most of the pain to go away and continued fishing.
While fishing, i noticed a school of kurper with a couple of decent fish in the school and decided to take my ultra light with the smallest lure in my bag and see if i could get them to bite. after about 10 mins or so of "irritating" them, one finally took the hook.
landed the fish and was pretty chufed with myself! in the process of removing the hooks, the fish slipped out of my grip and pulled the top trebles in to my index finger and thumb. this kinda sucked...
Evreytime the fish wriggled, i could feel the hooks burrying themselves deeper in my fingers so naturally i used my other hand to hold on to the lure. this left me with the problem of not being able to remove the hooks from the fish. after some frantic yelling, i manged to draw the attention of my mates. luckily they came to my assistance and removed the hooks from the fish. (and released it safely)
we cut the hooks free from the lure and then cut the trebble in half. now i could at least open my hand again! pulled the big part of the trebble with the "looped line around the hook technique ", which was fairly painless. the other bit not so much...
only about 2mm of the cut hook was sticking out. so while one friend was holding my wrist down, the other proceeded to yank it out with a longnose pliers.
I had a cold one and waited for most of the pain to go away and continued fishing.
