First I've heard of someone being hooked by a partially cleaned fish; although, a decent trout caught (and released) at the beginning of Missouri's trout season can yield several micro jigs and flies.
Deer hunter's have it far worse and should be even more careful when cleaning their quarry. Broadheads are something you definitely don't want to grab. I've never done it myself, but I've seen some strange stuff (e.g. healthy, mature bucks with back feathers). Timothy -----Original Message----- From: Dan Crowe [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, June 09, 2002 9:37 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [VFB] ouch! and a warning Ok, first of all, no yelling at me for taking a couple fish, but I took a couple fish today out of a lake that is HEAVILY stocked by the state, and which I don't believe has any native stocks at all. I'm an ardent supporter of C&R, but I can't see where this hurts anything. Now that that's over with, I took the aforementioned fish home for dinner and began the cleaning process. I reached inside the first fish and... spent the next 15 minutes getting the little brass treble hook out of my thumb. This was not my hook. I caught the fish on a size 6 wooly bugger. This looked to be about a size 10 or so gap on a gold colored treble hook, with quite an aggressive little barb on it. Two of the hooks buried (I mean REALLY buried) themselves in the pad of my thumb. So, here's the warning. There probably isn't anything sharp in that trout you just caught, but on the other hand, you may not have been the first one to hook that fish. In all my years of fishing; crazy, terrible casting; high winds, etc. all the stuff that people blame for hooking themselves, I've never been seriously hooked before this, and it wasn't even my hook!!! Oh well, a new element of danger in the sport. Just what it needed. Dan "*#*$%#*$&!" Crowe Have forceps, will travel
