What I thought was gonna be a great day fishing didn't turn out as planned. However, I did manage to catch another gar after removing the hook and my finger is completely healed now.
For those wondering why I left the hook in the fish, the simple answer is that the fish swallowed it. The long answer is that alligator gar have a very long snout with 2 rows of sharp teeth. I retrieve the hook from the fish the majority of the time, but I use braid as leader with 1/0 live bait hooks to prevent harm if swallowed. Alligator gar sit with the bait in their mouth sometimes for a minute, and they are very difficult to hook due to how bony their mouths are. The majority of alligator gar guides use treble hooks and wire and cut the line on pretty much every fish they catch because money is on the line. I do not do this. Conservation of this native species is my number one priority. I am assuming that the people asking why I left the hook in the fish are not from the south USA, but i would love to be able to educate those watching my videos that include MUCH bigger gar than this! If anybody would be willing to, please sign the petition in my bio to help this species become a gamefish. We are currently the only state without limits on Alligator Gar, and it is destroying their populations. I have reached out to organizations to have this changed with no success, so please, sign this petition if you would like to see this species thrive like they did 100 years ago.
Разве крючок в пасти не вредит рыбе ?, что-то ты не оставил крючок в своём пальце . Все твои слова про заботу о рыбе, пустые слова, прикрытие того что тебе лень возиться с крючком.
fish hooks end with backward-facing spikes, being out he managed to cut. if the barb stopped into the finger, he would have forced it to exit by himself anyway, since for sure you don't want to rip it out from where it entered
Staying calm after these injuries is the most important thing. You can hear him shivering and hyperventilating, but he kept his cool and fixed the situation. I once almost cut my finger off, so I stopped what I did, slowly walked to the Medical station and got myself a bandage to stop the bleeding before promptly telling my superior to drive me to the hospital.
@@chrisi7127 it is the best to do, most the time your body is more shocked, the shockness overpowers you crying, in fact even your body knows its best to stay calm not just your brain, the pain is extremely bad but your body does its best to numb the feeling. and obviously staying calm and fixing the injury as fast as possible is better then panicking
being in shock is such a powerful survival mechanism. stubbing your toe hurts in order for you to learn that it's generally bad to do that, but if you get your hand bitten off there's no need for excruciating pain, only adrenaline and level headed-ness so you can run or fight back. the pain comes later when you're safe and have calmed down. when i was 14 i hammered in a nail about 2 inches into the flesh of my hand, and it felt like a mosquito bite. i looked for the nail on the ground for a few seconds before even realizing what had happened. later at the ER (still with a nail in my hand) i flinched and said "ow" when i got the tiny needle with anesthesia...
Actually never played far cry. I currently am playing Minecraft, old COD zombies (WaW, Bo1, Bo3), warzone, white noise, etc. but in the past I was big into fallout, gta, assassins creed etc
This is gonna show up on people’s recommended page again 10 years from now and everyone is gonna be just as impressed and mildly terrified of this man as we are now
Actually it happened to when I was a teen, it stinks at first but then it goes away very fast ! It's not THAT bad ! I also continue fishing right after that
Gets a hook through finger. Stays calm. Thinks of fish while taking out hook. Successfully takes out hook. Goes back to fishing. This is what I call dedication. Edit: Mom, my music isn’t famous, but my RU-vid comment is!
@@pixelzebra8440his hand was shaking because he was pulling it out same thing happens to me when I stapled my finger on accident it's very painful when you take it out but when you keep it in then it's not
That had to be the calmest response to a situation like this, especially with the hook on your finger, which has so many nerve endings, you handled the situation perfectly.
I was fishing wit my friends and they did a cast wrong and the hook went into my head since his dumbass was standing right next to me. Some horrified dude sitting on a bench at the dock called 911 and all the homies was sitting in the car watching ambulance yank the damn hook out of my skull and they gave me a jar with the hook and just hopped back in the truck and scrammed. I brought the jar to school the next day and I was popular for a total of 3 hours and 26 minutes until some dude pulled up with brand new air forces.
@@leeyo5494if he didn’t cut the line and the fish ran again it would seriously damage his finger potentially ripping the hook threw his skin the gar will most likely be fine
When i was small i had once a hook stuck in my feet when i went fishing with my dad. i screamed like hell around. i know the pain and seeing you so collected and simple going back to fishing- respect man💪💪
Man are you serious, you genuinely pulled it out without even any scream or aahhhhh!!! The way you and your handled it was really dope. You are brave as a lion
Handled it better than I would have. A hook through the finger sounds very painful, but that's good it went all the way through so the barbed tip didn't cause further damage when removing.
Me as a kid would’ve been crying like crazy. The way you handled it was the best way to do it. Stay calm, and tell yourself you’re fine to prevent panic then get it fixed.
Same, except I didn't get a hook stuck in my finger but a whole dart in my hand. When I was younger, I had a dart board and I thought it was a smart idea to jump on my bed and then throw the dart but it obviously backfired bc it bounces off one of those big exercise balls and then the dart got launched into my hand. So now if you look at my right hand, there's a scar from where it happened
@@reelingwithrobby The other day I was punched with a hook in my hand and it is it not so painful as i thought. But your accident was worst than mine. Your hook was bigger and you were punched in the finger, what is more painful. If you have this accident the best you can do is cut the hook if you have the proper tool.
In middle school I went to a 3 day camping trip & we all witnessed a girl get a hook stuck to her eye. She was brought back during the bonfire & it turns out it somehow only got her eyelid. I didn’t think I’d need another reason not to go fishing but you are a legend!
@@Spongey_bob well you know people tend to freak out and do the dumbest things ever Like I saw a woman in a scuba diving training, she freaked out so much underwater she removed her oxygen mask even tho they were pros to help her in the training
I liked how you maintained calm with the hook in your finger. I would have screamed and cried a lot if that happens to me and probably go to a hospital. You took it like if it was just a scratch!
personally something like that to me is very minor, your brain is telling you it's painful so you need to realise that it actually isn't that bad by analysing the situation, something like a snake bite however is very different.
Props for reacting properly and calmly. Good job, and good to see you got it out okay. The fact it went all the way through may have actually been a good thing, meant the barb didn't rip the skin as it was pulled back through and you could crush it first. Still, a nasty wound, but nice handling with that situation.
@@herpaderpa6474 у меня такое случалось. Да, это действительно хуже, чем на видео, потому что приходится самостоятельно выталкивать его дальше, чтобы рана была сквозная.
I've had a hook in the hand, and a hook in the thigh. Neither went all the way through. For the hand, i used the fishing line trick. It worked surprisingly well. The hook in the thigh was a different story. I had to push the point on through. Then i tried to grab the point of the hook to pull it out, but only managed to break the point off, so i had to repeat the process with a dull hook. (I don't recommend it)
Been there - Done that. Still waiting for the T-shirt! I feel for you! I had a similar thing happen while guiding a Salmon trip about 15 years ago. First fish of the morning, a nice 8 pound Coho. Got him in the boat and grabbed him and he started thrashing around and I caught the trailing single hook pretty much the same way you did, but it didn't go all the way through. Got the line cut as quick as was possible. Then had to deal with pulling the hook out. For Salmon fishing, we are required to use barbless hooks, or pinch the barb flat. I was using my needlenose pliers to try and pull the hook out, but it wouldn't move in either direction, and pulling on it hurt like hell! Got one of my guests to hold my hand down firmly on the deck while I pulled on it. After about 10 minutes of this painful tug-of-war, I finally got the hook out, only to discover that I had forgot to pinch the barb! You can bet that I never forgot that again!
Glad it came out fine buddy. It's happened to me and always carry pliers in the box now. Real dull ache of a pain isn't it. P.S don't skimp on the pliers 😉
From the Department of Strange Coincidences… Many, many years ago, when I was a young radiography student, I had a clinical rotation at a small hospital in a little backwater town. It was very early in the morning, so, things were pretty quiet. A few chest x-rays to start the day and a lot of standing around, drinking coffee. Around 7am, I received a notification for a patient with a hand injury. I entered the exam room and a youngish man (early to mid 30s) was sitting on the table, looking more than a little embarrassed. He held up his hand and I saw that he had a fish hook through the ball of his right thumb. He said, “I woulda took it out myself but I don’t like the sight of blood.”. I took him down to x-ray and got two views for the ER doc on duty. Easy work. By the time we finished up, my coffee was still piping hot. Not twenty minutes later, I got a second notification. Another walk-in patient. Another hand injury. I entered the room and there was a seven year old kid, sitting quietly on the exam table with his dad standing beside him. The dad tapped his son on the shoulder and said, “Show him.”. The kid held out his right hand and showed me the fish hook in his thumb. Exact same entry and exit points as the previous patient. I took the x-rays and walked down to the ER. The doc had already finished up with the previous patient and was sitting at his desk, chatting with a nurse. I handed him the seven year old’s jacket and films and said, “You know that strange feeling you get when something happens and you swear it’s happened before?”. He said, “Deja vu?” I said, “Yeah, that’s the one.”
I think this happens to almost all fishermen, should they do it long enough. I was probably 10 when it first happened to me. I acted like a baby and later felt great shame.... It was a great life lesson though. You, on the other hand, chose to man up, accept reality, and TCOB. All-in-all you handled it like a boss. Well done sir!
Man, you did that damn well! Happened to me two times in the last few years. fortunately i'm always carrying my knipex cobolt bolt cutter in my backpack for this reason. Last time my finger caught a treble hook while hand landing a big pike (46 inches), that was not funny at all...
@@user-jw1dv2vw1y Yeah, the hook luckily didn't catch any tendons or nerves. But it was a pretty bloody matter and quite painful. I know why i'm usually using a net to land pike, but on this very day i forgot it at home... Sadly the pike didn't make it 'cause we somehow had to manage the operation.
@@NaDa4swf ive never had a hook in me but the other day i was hugging my dog and he heard a noise. He got up and slammed my jaw and dislocated it it was a horrible pain and took some work to get it back in ❤️
When I was a kid, my cousin stepped on a treble hook. Shirt, but no big deal really. But my uncle insisted we had to drive to the nearest doctor’s house for him to take it out. Jesus.
Dang! My uncle accidentally hook me on my head and it went kind of deep but i managed to pull it out but not in a proper way, believe me it wad painful .
It wouldn't have gone through if it hit bone. I got 8 stitches in my finger today and It's supposed to heal in a week and really didnt hurt that bad tbh. I'm sure he's fine
Fun fact: most of the time, you think something is more painful when watching it than actually experiencing it, I'm certain most of the people who say they would've cried just think that, but in reality they wouldn't cry.
@@Lynch856 Yeah to a small fishing competition and some kids run throught my line while I was putting a bait on the hook and welp.. It ripped off my thumb which actually looked worse than the guy in the video but I managed to unstuck it way easier than him tho.
This way, a hook is not removed, it is cut in the weakest part, which is under the harpoon or in the tying area. That's in a tutorial on what not to do to crush the harpoon since the hooks have a chrome coating that the harpoon tears as it passes
Happened to me years back...bout 20 years WOW i'm old. Youre lucky, it went all the way through. The old balsa wood rapala i was using had tiny hooks and it went straight in my thumb, dropped the bass and it went nuts flopping around. Sunk it in to the hilt. Tried to push it through, hook was too small and deep to expose the barb. Had to just rip it out. Hurt worse than any broken bone i've had. I ALWAYS carry needle nose, most of the time on my hip. Fish gets pinned, hook grabbed with needle nose, then I grab the fish and remove the hook. Just put wire cutters in my tackle backpack 😂
I had a similar situation. When I was 13 I caught a gar on a jerk bait and when i was taking the hook out it flopped and the hook went into the top of my finger, the gar then slipped off the ledge with the hook still in its mouth… so the whole weight of the gar was hanging from my hooked finger. I had to pull it back up, unhook it, push the hook through, clip it and then then pull it out. Took my 30 minutes to pull it through, never went to the Dr and pitched for my baseball team the next day with a balloon for a finger Lol
Dang I hooked my lip last year tore a big chunk of but i rather that hat have a jig head go all the way through my pinkie . You handled it better than 99% of people would have
The worst part is that if you go to a hospital is pretty much the same as if you pulled it out yourself since they can not administrate any type of anesthesic on your fingers sin you will lose your ability to feel in that finger permanently. Good thing you stayed calm, seriously that helped A LOT
Happens to me before but luckily it was a small trout fly. May I recommend a bit of advice for anyone it happens to if the hook goes through cut the barbed end it will pull out a lot easier hooks are easily replaced and don’t cost that much.
