Northwest Fishing Reports

Last year I had a spinnerbait explode against the dock after I turned away and ripped on the line. I felt pretty lucky at the time. I feel even more lucky today after having a swimbait fly past me and barely miss with the big treble. I hope my luck never runs out in this department haha. It's even more funny that both incidents were with the same floating log. Can inanimate objects hold grudges? Hmmmmm....

Yes they can. At least when they are sleeping and you bother them. Well, it seems like it anyway. I've been hit a couple times, but no sticking of the hooks.

Definitely have to be careful. I had a worm with a bullet weight come loose once, tear a hole in my jacket and leave big welt/bruise on my arm. Flying lures and weights can be hazardous...lol

This is what happens when the hook comes out when you go to net a salmon. I wasn't so lucky....

907fisher wrote:This is what happens when the hook comes out when you go to net a salmon. I wasn't so lucky....

Kids these days...piercing anything and everything. What's the world coming to?

ok, on the serious side...ouch! I have ducked my fair share of lures and have been lucky thus far.

Ok, now your talking about the FISH throwing the hook as you lip or net it. The first time I got hooked from that was a little 6" or 8" largie on a Pop-R. Had the thing by the lip and it wiggled, threw the Pop-R into the palm of my right hand with the hook DEEP in the flesh. Took a half hour or so to get THAT hook out. I pushed the point back out so I could grind off the barb so I could back out the hook. Had to 'rest' now and then during the operation. lol It was in the DARK and I'm right handed. This was long before I heard of the fishing line method of removing a hook.

That was in '88. The next 3 times was in '09, for a total of 4 times I've been hooked because of fish.

One time I left the hook in my left hand and removed the lure from the hook and kept fishing for a couple hours, then went to the launch and a guy had a pair of dikes so I cut the hook. Turns out I had dikes in the tool box, but didn't think I did so didn't even look until later that day to check after I got to thinking. After cutting the hook, I went back out fishing. Oh ya, a LITTLE trout did the wiggle thing that morning, and yes it was dark.

I've got one of those from Westport 10-12 miles off the coast, last Sept.

..." hang on a minute while I lift my pant leg. I've got this scar from the summer of '74..."

no harm meant,, I just thought it was funny that people were pulling out their fishing hazard photos. Yeah, we've definetly all been there on the quick-release snag coming off a dock or log,etc.

Oh I've been hooked a few times too. Once I was pushing a circle hook through to pinch the barb. Then comes a fish counter around the corner who starts telling me stories of his past. Meanwhile I was shaking with my free hand because of the amount of pressure it took to get that thing through.

gug, I'm glad you guys took pics, will definitely remind me to be careful this year! I worry about eyeballs when it comes to flying hooks myself. One year in the middle of deep lake I went to cast a rooster tail and it snagged on something behind me. I kept yanking it to try to figure out what i had and I hear my brother in the back of the boat start yelling obscenities at me... caught him right in the back of the head at the bottom of the hairline, looked like a little pony tail, LOL. we went into the doctor to have it removed.

One reason to wear glasses...you never know. I always do.

My uncle was fishing for white bass once with a silver spoon in about a foot of water, he missed a hook set ad the treble came and got 2/3 of the hook in his chin. He couldnt get it out, tried to continue fishing.

Had a buddy fishing in front of me rip a lure loose from a snag when I was a kid. The lure flew back wrapped around my glasses and dangled right next to my eye... I cant make this up! Had to go change my loons. It was enough to make me never want to go fishing again... ok that part I made up!

My brother was sleeping in the foxhole sp? ( front of the boat) and the sound was pretty choppy, we hit a nice roller and heard some screaming... We stopped the boat to check out what happened and he had a big rusty hook in his buttocks, we didn't fish that day, he hadn't had a tetnus shot in 10 years and it was a very rusty hook...

Ive been pretty lucky, never been hooked (knock on wood) My little pit bull on the other hand decided to eat my Koppers perch crankbait after I yanked a smallie into the boat out at Banks lake...... it wasnt fun either cause besides that, a storm blew in, water over the back of the boat, the boat being blowen into steamboat, trying to save the boat and my rod while my dog thrashed around in the boat, then in the water. some how i escaped beening hooked, inchs from the jagged rocks at steamboat and a bloody mess in the boat....... then my dog puked on the boat..... ugh.... lOl that was a great trip!!!! going back for fathers day!!!!

Cherokee's first fish, with no hooks.

I will leave names out for there rep but a buddy and I were fishing with a pro on the columbia and he was casting a jerkbait as far as he could and ripping it in on one long cast two trebles hook my buddy in the back of the head. He said he almost blacked out he thought he got hit with a rock or something. The jerbait just fell out and his head was all bloody but he kept on fishing. All I could do was laugh when I found out he was ok