What injuries have fish inflicted on you.

[Dignity]

Just back from the hospital to remove a fish spine from my fingernail. Was removing the hook with a pair of those long nose pliers today from a sweetlip when the fish gave an almighty flick as the hook was removed and drove a 6mm piece of spine into my middle fingernail side on. It had to be removed by cutting out a section of the fingernail it was wedged in that tightly and the anaesthetic needle was worse than the initial injury.
Sorry forgot to take pics.
Was wondering what other injuries people have sustained while fishing.

[nigelr]

Still got the scar from a bream spike in my finger from nearly 30 years ago!
Don't think I've ever eaten a bream that I've caught that hasn't drawn blood from me lol.........I hate cleaning bream but I love eating them!
Got a nice hit from an eagle ray that went straight through my waders like they weren't there, bled for hours despite my vigorously scrubbing it.....
I've learned the hard way to be very cautious, but the blood still runs hot when the fish are landed.....

[Axl]

I recieved a sting from a Happy Moment (Black Trevaly) about 20 years ago fishing of a rock wall at Amity Point. Still to this day the worst pain I have ever experienced.

[sleepygreg]

Used to take weeks to recover from our annual family holiday when i was a young tacker (12yo - 16yo)......fingers would be covered in cuts, scratches, punctures, abrasions...from flathead, bream, niggers, leatherjackets (ripping the skin off em really leaves YOUR skin like sandpaper once it dries out), jewies (gill rakers are severe if ya get ya fingers behind em), drummer..............and we were bloody proud of em...kinda like battle trophies. Though i have a nasty scar on the inside of my thigh from a st of trebles that came out of a spanyiard that was in the boat already...bloody idiot on the rod still had drag cranked up and full load on fish (idiot would be ME) when trebles came out at a gazillion miles an hour and ripped six inches of flesh. Have had a number of broken fingers from jigging for kings at the Peak off Sydney......have since changed the way I build rods and place foregrips. Dunno if it counts as a fish inflicted injury ......but have twice had a bee sting on the sole of my foot while fishing......and i gotta tell ya....this is bloody painfull when ya dont know what has happened (ya put your foot down trying to rid yourself of the 'foreign object'..but only manage to pump more poison into the wound). Once on Lake Burrinjuck when trolling for Murray cod, and once when trolling for mack tuna (for bait) on the way to the Peak for a kingie and tuna sesh. Still trying to figure out what a bee was doing that far from shore.

Greg

[Axl]

Used to take weeks to recover from our annual family holiday when i was a young tacker (12yo - 16yo)......fingers would be covered in cuts, scratches, punctures, abrasions...from flathead, bream, niggers, leatherjackets (ripping the skin off em really leaves YOUR skin like sandpaper once it dries out), jewies (gill rakers are severe if ya get ya fingers behind em), drummer..............and we were bloody proud of em...kinda like battle trophies. Though i have a nasty scar on the inside of my thigh from a st of trebles that came out of a spanyiard that was in the boat already...bloody idiot on the rod still had drag cranked up and full load on fish (idiot would be ME) when trebles came out at a gazillion miles an hour and ripped six inches of flesh. Have had a number of broken fingers from jigging for kings at the Peak off Sydney......have since changed the way I build rods and place foregrips. Dunno if it counts as a fish inflicted injury ......but have twice had a bee sting on the sole of my foot while fishing......and i gotta tell ya....this is bloody painfull when ya dont know what has happened (ya put your foot down trying to rid yourself of the 'foreign object'..but only manage to pump more poison into the wound). Once on Lake Burrinjuck when trolling for Murray cod, and once when trolling for mack tuna (for bait) on the way to the Peak for a kingie and tuna sesh. Still trying to figure out what a bee was doing that far from shore.

Greg

Sheees Greg you wanna give it away whilst your still able to.

[Dignity]

Used to take weeks to recover from our annual family holiday when i was a young tacker (12yo - 16yo)......fingers would be covered in cuts, scratches, punctures, abrasions...from flathead, bream, niggers, leatherjackets (ripping the skin off em really leaves YOUR skin like sandpaper once it dries out), jewies (gill rakers are severe if ya get ya fingers behind em), drummer..............and we were bloody proud of em...kinda like battle trophies. Though i have a nasty scar on the inside of my thigh from a st of trebles that came out of a spanyiard that was in the boat already...bloody idiot on the rod still had drag cranked up and full load on fish (idiot would be ME) when trebles came out at a gazillion miles an hour and ripped six inches of flesh. Have had a number of broken fingers from jigging for kings at the Peak off Sydney......have since changed the way I build rods and place foregrips. Dunno if it counts as a fish inflicted injury ......but have twice had a bee sting on the sole of my foot while fishing......and i gotta tell ya....this is bloody painfull when ya dont know what has happened (ya put your foot down trying to rid yourself of the 'foreign object'..but only manage to pump more poison into the wound). Once on Lake Burrinjuck when trolling for Murray cod, and once when trolling for mack tuna (for bait) on the way to the Peak for a kingie and tuna sesh. Still trying to figure out what a bee was doing that far from shore.

Greg

Greg, are you sure you go fishing for the enjoyment. Yesterday my crew also had a spike from a fish in his thumb, didn't realise it was still in there till he got home and prodded around a bit to pull a 1 cm spike out. Must have been weird to watch both of us cursing every time we bumped our thumbs/fingers out there on the water.

[wayno60]

Got stuck by a catty right on the end of my middle finger. I could feel the pain slowy working its way up my arm so the ol girl drove to the hospital at mullumbimby, two shots in the rump, one for the pain and a tetanus shot.
Didnt get much sleep that night as the pain was all the way up to my shoulder but by the next morning it was all good.

[Dignity]

Got stuck by a catty right on the end of my middle finger. I could feel the pain slowy working its way up my arm so the ol girl drove to the hospital at mullumbimby, two shots in the rump, one for the pain and a tetanus shot.
Didnt get much sleep that night as the pain was all the way up to my shoulder but by the next morning it was all good.

Hopefully there was a shot of rum for you when you got home

[jtpython]

That had a spano attached while in my inner thigh

[nigelr]

That is definitely NOT a good look JT.
Let alone how it must have felt, at least it didn't bite you as well.........

[URAGANGI]

JT that looks more than friggin sore. I bet your english was at it's best when that happened.!!

[URAGANGI]

Fishing off the banks at the Coomera river. The rod starts to scream. It's now bounced free from the rod holder. I've launched myself in aid of the rod from going into the drink. I Failed big time. I sliped and caught my leg in a mud hole. My hand connected with the anchore cleat. My little finger made first contact on the plunge downward. Here's the result...,snap than OUCH!!

[Dignity]

JT - ouch and ouch again getting it out

Viper Fish - ouch again.

I found that the original injury wasn't even close to being as painful as the remedy.

[Si]

i fell down the breakwall at Forster trying to cast when i was a kid. broke my wrist and cut my head. still have the scar on my noggin. sorry no photos.

[Jono_SS]

I've had my share of minor slicings and spikings like the majority of fishers out there. I've also inflicted a few minor injuries on myself, including a treble in the chin when a mackerel spat the lure next to the boat.

However, the most interesting was back in the 90's when I was holding onto the tail of a decent little halibut in the Gulf of Carpentaria. It reached around and latched onto my pinky. If you are wondering what the problem is, do a google search for images of Psettodes erumei.

My reaction was to give my hand a big shake to flick it off. That worked, though left some good little gouges on the finger. Plus, 12 months later I squeezed an annoying little lump on my finger and eventually a little harpoon-like tooth popped out! I've still got the tooth somewhere....

More interesting than spectacular.

Jono.