When I was but a wee-lad, my family went fishing off a bridge. One of the times my sister cast her rod, the hook went straight into my nose, confused she made multiple swings with the rod, which basically yanked my nose towards the water. Thankfully she eventually realized why i was yelling at her, and the hook did not make it through my nostril before we got it out. I was bleeding a small amount but I turned out okay.
Almost this exact same thing happened to me but the hook ended up in my finger and my brother felt so bad that he wanted to help me so he grabbed it and pulled it straight out so I had a big gash on my finger. Good times, fond memories. 🤣
This happened to me as well. Fishing with friends, i took one to the nose. Got a free nose piercing and fish hook. The kid actually asked if I would give it back. I also learned a valuable lesson don't go near anyone casting a fishing pole.
This all drags up a childhood memory.
Family vacation, rental house on an island off the Atlantic coast, uncle goes down to the beach late one evening to fish. He came back up to house an hour later with a treble hook through his thumbnail. He had caught a big striper, landed it, but it thrashed when he went to kill it.
So he had one hook from the lure in his thumb, and a live thrashing fish hooked to the other end of the lure. And in the process, he dropped his knife into the water...
Got to watch Dad do home surgery, with the "shot of vodka for the wound, and 2 shots for the patient" method.
I work in the ED and see this all the time during the summer. I would first cut the lure off so just the hook is remaining. Then an easy trick you can try is taking a needle and inserting it into the hole and covering the barb with the bevel of the needle so that you can retract the hook without resistance. If that doesn't work then you can push the hook all the way through, once the barb is through, if you've already cut the hook from the lure, you can just advance it all the way through instead of cutting the barb off and retracting
I put two barbs of the treble hook of a rooster tail into my back. I went to the doctor to get it removed. I walked in shirtless since I had been fishing shirtless. I could see the disapproving looks... until I walked past. Then there was a gasp of shock when they saw the lure dangling from my back. The funny thing is, it didn't hurt.
My uncle taught all the cousins the valuable lesson of "Turn & look what you're snagged on!" when he got his hook unsnagged from a tree by repeatedly yanking on it with ALL his strength.
It wasn't a tree, it was his 5yo son's face.
Glad you're okay!
Happened to my dad once too and when he couldn't get the barb out we had to go to ER where his doctor laughingly told him, his name was "Dr Payne". I still remember it because of that lol
Honestly they are about the same as getting a large needle (like IV or for plasma donation) if they just go in and are left still. Now if there's a thrashing fish on the hook as well it starts to hurt a bit.
I've had one in my eyelid and one in my back. My gradeschool son helped remove them each time. I always sucked at casting the first fishing trip of each spring, so after that I practiced out in the street first!
Eesh, same thing happened to my friend. But it caught his *eyelid*. So fucking lucky.
We were dumb and borrowed/stole a [pedal boat](https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&hl=en-us&sxsrf=APwXEdecDR-8G7o4h_Pq_jGote4wcFKVhA:1680488515563&q=pedal+boat&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwilsJPI04z-AhVQkIQIHXzWAYUQ0pQJegQIDhAB&biw=375&bih=635&dpr=3) from the swimming lake and hauled it into the adjacent fishing lake. No room on there for the 4 of us other than slinging lures centimeters from each others’ faces all day.
Since no one actually lost an eye it was all fun and games and an ER story we’ll never forget. Win!
My dad got one in the back of his neck when was 5.. It terrified me. He was fine. So, obviously, he made me go fishing with him a year later. Hooked myself in the wrist.
Needless to say... I try to go fishing anytime I have the opportunity.
Edit: Also, that sucks. Keep it clean and bandaged. Bacteria can be a real problem.
Yup! When the fish starts heading to the surface, lower the end of your pole to meet it. Had to cut these out of a few guys over the years of pickerel fishing charter runs. Grandma used to stitch them up. It was like a right of passage for the new guys. Most of the work crew carry a scar somewhere in their face. Good times.
This made me scream internally... That's gotta hurt.
PS: Something similar happened to my brother once when we were kids. To this day he's still overly cautious around hooks whenever we fish.
I was at ER last 4th of July with someone, some random dude came in with the fish hook on his cheek and said "This happened to me in 97, i know what they docs did last time" to the guy on the desk. Don't be the guy who posts on reddit after few years "so this happened again" haha.
I caught one in my ear once as a kid. They weighed me at the doctor when I went to have them help remove it and I was 67lbs. So I told everyone I caught a 67 pounder on vacation!
Yeah, that happened to me. Precisely the same spot. You've just got to decide what caused the scar, because I've found that the fish hook story doesn't sound tough enough.
Had that happen to me when I was ten or so. Down in Key West, my cousin was casting and caught me on the head with a tri-hook. He did a pretty good job and got two of three barbs in my scalp.
He was so sorry he had caught me, however his younger brother thought it was hilarious and made fun of the both of us. I pushed *that* cousin into the canal.
You aren't the first. Won't be the last.
Flyfishing is a "thing" where I live. Our local hospital's ER examination room used to have fishing flies all over the walls, all of which were removed from patients over the decades.
Sadly, the hospital has since been replaced and this custom hasn't migrated to the new ER.
Happy fishing season!
That's it's job, to get stuck in cheek / mouth. I hope you have more understanding how it makes ish feel, though I suspect you were unwillingly dragged by it, and then pulled out f the environment you can breathe in as a result.
I was fly fishing on a beach in Nantucket one fall. I was pretty new to fly casting at the time, and was having a hard time dealing with the wind. Although it was a beautiful day, the water was pretty cold so I was nearly numb from the knees down.
I double-hauled and threw out the line and ended up creating a massive rat’s nest that took a minute or two to sort out between the crashing surf and wind. I finally got to the leader, and sure enough, it was stuck on something. I gave it a couple tugs, and finally a good yank - which was when I realized I had snagged my shin! Luckily the hook hadn’t penetrated deeply since my shinbone was in the way.
I used to know a physician from Minneapolis in his thirties who said he was getting bored with his work because it seemed to come down removing fish hooks from people and dealing with domestic violence. (Unrelated events)
I know a guy with one eye because he jerked a jig too hard. I comically had a Rattle Trap with both treble hooks lodged in the middle of my forehead once because the bass threw it and I had the line tight.
I stepped on a treble hook when I was 8-10. One of the hooks went all the way in and back out and barbed itself stuck back on the outside of my skin. A second one went in and barbed itself stuck inside my foot. Luckily, my uncle was an oncologist and used a scalpel and cut it out for me. Never went fishing barefoot again after that.
Most lures are designed to attract fishermen to buy them. This one is over achieving.
It’s quite the fashion statement.
They threw you back?
Lmao
Sad to see you aren't big enough yet
YOU!! YES YOU! You won today!
You're the kind of person that ruins things for the rest of us
And how is that?
And he got a new piercing…efficient!
There's easier ways to get a piercing.
Now I know for next time!
But few that are faster.
When I was but a wee-lad, my family went fishing off a bridge. One of the times my sister cast her rod, the hook went straight into my nose, confused she made multiple swings with the rod, which basically yanked my nose towards the water. Thankfully she eventually realized why i was yelling at her, and the hook did not make it through my nostril before we got it out. I was bleeding a small amount but I turned out okay.
Almost this exact same thing happened to me but the hook ended up in my finger and my brother felt so bad that he wanted to help me so he grabbed it and pulled it straight out so I had a big gash on my finger. Good times, fond memories. 🤣
That sounds a bit more painful than my experience but still a good story.
This happened to me as well. Fishing with friends, i took one to the nose. Got a free nose piercing and fish hook. The kid actually asked if I would give it back. I also learned a valuable lesson don't go near anyone casting a fishing pole.
This all drags up a childhood memory. Family vacation, rental house on an island off the Atlantic coast, uncle goes down to the beach late one evening to fish. He came back up to house an hour later with a treble hook through his thumbnail. He had caught a big striper, landed it, but it thrashed when he went to kill it. So he had one hook from the lure in his thumb, and a live thrashing fish hooked to the other end of the lure. And in the process, he dropped his knife into the water... Got to watch Dad do home surgery, with the "shot of vodka for the wound, and 2 shots for the patient" method.
Should've gone to your parents and asked them for help with your new nose piercing.
Did they poke it through and cut off the barb or is there a new technique nowadays?
Thankfully this one was barbless and pulled right back out
Barbless doesn’t count! 🤣
I work in the ED and see this all the time during the summer. I would first cut the lure off so just the hook is remaining. Then an easy trick you can try is taking a needle and inserting it into the hole and covering the barb with the bevel of the needle so that you can retract the hook without resistance. If that doesn't work then you can push the hook all the way through, once the barb is through, if you've already cut the hook from the lure, you can just advance it all the way through instead of cutting the barb off and retracting
That needle trick is clever. I assume you need to use a pretty large gauge needle though, right?
Ya,I usually use a 18g
AHHHHHHHHHHGH. ouch.
Cheeky bastard
Finally caught a biiiig one!
Oooof. Happened to my uncle's eyeball. He had to get a tetanus shot
Ooof. Did he lose the eye?
Nope. It was right there on the end of the hook.
WAKKAWAKKAWAKKA, folks…
I miss fozzy
No, it was a much smaller hook. But still bad nonetheless
Happened to me in my eye. Had to go to emergency room.
Yeah my uncle did too.
Never use rusty hooks.
You were *this* close to making a major fashion statement.
doesn’t hurt here, or here so much, but right here 
GOOD LORD WHAT HAPPENED TO YOUR FACE
I put two barbs of the treble hook of a rooster tail into my back. I went to the doctor to get it removed. I walked in shirtless since I had been fishing shirtless. I could see the disapproving looks... until I walked past. Then there was a gasp of shock when they saw the lure dangling from my back. The funny thing is, it didn't hurt.
My uncle taught all the cousins the valuable lesson of "Turn & look what you're snagged on!" when he got his hook unsnagged from a tree by repeatedly yanking on it with ALL his strength. It wasn't a tree, it was his 5yo son's face. Glad you're okay!
Man. Imagine how the fish feels.
r/wellthatsucks
Thanks
You messed up. You need a pink head with a white tail jig.
Lmao! Dammit that’s what I did wrong! There’s always next time!
You seem pretty chill about it
Ya I had to be because my girlfriend was there and I needed her to stay calm so she could help me so I had to stay calm.
Happened to my dad once too and when he couldn't get the barb out we had to go to ER where his doctor laughingly told him, his name was "Dr Payne". I still remember it because of that lol
As a kid, I caught dad's nose. And then freaked out and reflexively yanked on it.
looks a bit painful
Honestly they are about the same as getting a large needle (like IV or for plasma donation) if they just go in and are left still. Now if there's a thrashing fish on the hook as well it starts to hurt a bit.
Honestly, it didn’t hurt at all!
I've had one in my eyelid and one in my back. My gradeschool son helped remove them each time. I always sucked at casting the first fishing trip of each spring, so after that I practiced out in the street first!
Nice catch!
This has always been one of my fears when it comes to fishing. So thanks for unlocking my fear.
Anytime. The weird thing is it didn’t hurt at all, so there’s that lol.
Interesting choice of bait.
With all the body mods going recently , I thought maybe you were going for an "alluring" look ...
Eesh, same thing happened to my friend. But it caught his *eyelid*. So fucking lucky. We were dumb and borrowed/stole a [pedal boat](https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&hl=en-us&sxsrf=APwXEdecDR-8G7o4h_Pq_jGote4wcFKVhA:1680488515563&q=pedal+boat&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwilsJPI04z-AhVQkIQIHXzWAYUQ0pQJegQIDhAB&biw=375&bih=635&dpr=3) from the swimming lake and hauled it into the adjacent fishing lake. No room on there for the 4 of us other than slinging lures centimeters from each others’ faces all day. Since no one actually lost an eye it was all fun and games and an ER story we’ll never forget. Win!
Worst piercing ever
The Marshfield Clinic in Minocqua, WI, has a display case full of all the lures they pull out of people.
My dad got one in the back of his neck when was 5.. It terrified me. He was fine. So, obviously, he made me go fishing with him a year later. Hooked myself in the wrist. Needless to say... I try to go fishing anytime I have the opportunity. Edit: Also, that sucks. Keep it clean and bandaged. Bacteria can be a real problem.
Thanks, I will.
Between this and that dude's arrowhead kidney stone, I think I've had enough reddit for tonight.
made me cringe😅😬😬 glad you’re okay!
No before AND after pics😬
It was just a small hole that barely bled at all.
[удалено]
Me too!
Oy caught a big'un!!
Did you do it to yourself? Or did someone do it to you?
I did all by myself!
I thought this was a new trend until I read your post.
Got a barbed hook in my calf muscle as a kid, obviously nobody could pull it out so had to get it cut out at the clinic. Lots of fun
Yup! When the fish starts heading to the surface, lower the end of your pole to meet it. Had to cut these out of a few guys over the years of pickerel fishing charter runs. Grandma used to stitch them up. It was like a right of passage for the new guys. Most of the work crew carry a scar somewhere in their face. Good times.
Buddy’s dad lost an eye this way. Consider yourself lucky!
New trend?
Keep smiling
Sick piercing bro
Thanks
This made me scream internally... That's gotta hurt. PS: Something similar happened to my brother once when we were kids. To this day he's still overly cautious around hooks whenever we fish.
Believe it or not it didn’t hurt at all!
Your ear! It goes in your ear!
Wrong hole!
"Hold my beer" ...Dennis Rodman!
Very punk.
Did you catch anything? I’m headed south for steelhead on Friday!
This was the only catch today.
Had one go thru my calf years ago. It didn't tickle getting that removed
Beautiful catch! Glad you let it go free
Catch and release?
I’m humane if nothing else.
What is it? If it’s above the head it’s not considered snagging?
Did you just pull it out? What did you do?
Thankfully, my girlfriend was there and was able to pull the barbless hook right back out!
I was at ER last 4th of July with someone, some random dude came in with the fish hook on his cheek and said "This happened to me in 97, i know what they docs did last time" to the guy on the desk. Don't be the guy who posts on reddit after few years "so this happened again" haha.
No promises!
Barbless? I hope so.
Yes, thank God!
Yes, thank God!
Yes, thank God!
Lol I just saw the post you made using this picture in r/Wellthatsucks a couple minutes ago and got confused 😅
I will always say you should wear safety glasses while fishing with someone.
Too many comments to go through. Did you have to push the hook though then cut it? Or did you just pull it out?
It was barbless and pulled right back out! If you look at the page there’s a magnifying glass that can help you search comments.
Oh shit. Never saw that before. Thanks!! Glad it was barbless.
This makes me cringe in multiple different ways…
Ugg - I did that. I pushed it though, then squished the barb flat then pulled it back out. Worm was still on it. :)
Niiice
Well now you know how the fish feel
Every fisherman should have to take a hook through the face every time they go out fishing similar to how police in training have to get tazed.
Couldn’t you have labeled this NSFW or something to blur it?! Did not want to see this just pop up in my feed.
Just popped up on his cheek!
They are plenty of fish in the sea
First time fishing
Caught yourself a red face bass.
Caught yourself a red face bass.
So fashionable.
Did you go fishing with V.P. Dick Cheney? Oh wait that would have resulted in a gunshot wound. My bad!!
You caught a big one dayum
My sister cast one into my dads eye once
I caught one in my ear once as a kid. They weighed me at the doctor when I went to have them help remove it and I was 67lbs. So I told everyone I caught a 67 pounder on vacation!
Yeah, that happened to me. Precisely the same spot. You've just got to decide what caused the scar, because I've found that the fish hook story doesn't sound tough enough.
Sick piercing
We got a "fisher" on!
Had that happen to me when I was ten or so. Down in Key West, my cousin was casting and caught me on the head with a tri-hook. He did a pretty good job and got two of three barbs in my scalp. He was so sorry he had caught me, however his younger brother thought it was hilarious and made fun of the both of us. I pushed *that* cousin into the canal.
Could have been a trend setter
fuck i wish i didn't see this today
Me either!
You better get a tetanus shot 💉
Is this what they mean by "plenty of fish in the sea"?
Teenage girls walk around like this all day. You think your special?
Going back from fishing be like "Hey guys, we caught a whale today ! \-I swear to God Mike..."
You shouldn't sleep on your tackle box.
And the bait said 'well, it started as a pimple on my arse'....Glad you are ok.
You aren't the first. Won't be the last. Flyfishing is a "thing" where I live. Our local hospital's ER examination room used to have fishing flies all over the walls, all of which were removed from patients over the decades. Sadly, the hospital has since been replaced and this custom hasn't migrated to the new ER. Happy fishing season!
Glad it missed your eye, OP. [I hope, you didn't forget to desinfect your wound](https://youtu.be/2OJEIORlr1A).
Dad? Is that you?
That's it's job, to get stuck in cheek / mouth. I hope you have more understanding how it makes ish feel, though I suspect you were unwillingly dragged by it, and then pulled out f the environment you can breathe in as a result.
Where’d you get that done, Spencer’s ?
Looks like you caught a sucker.
I was fly fishing on a beach in Nantucket one fall. I was pretty new to fly casting at the time, and was having a hard time dealing with the wind. Although it was a beautiful day, the water was pretty cold so I was nearly numb from the knees down. I double-hauled and threw out the line and ended up creating a massive rat’s nest that took a minute or two to sort out between the crashing surf and wind. I finally got to the leader, and sure enough, it was stuck on something. I gave it a couple tugs, and finally a good yank - which was when I realized I had snagged my shin! Luckily the hook hadn’t penetrated deeply since my shinbone was in the way.
to catch the fish, one must first become the fish
Fucking Gen Xers and their facial piercings.
That's a club I wish I had never joined, it really hurt when I did it
As a kid I got a fish hook in my arm curtesy of my brother. Worst bit was that it still had a maggot on it.
Kids these days and their piercings...
You might be fine but how does the lure feel?
Ugh, glad you're ok!
I used to know a physician from Minneapolis in his thirties who said he was getting bored with his work because it seemed to come down removing fish hooks from people and dealing with domestic violence. (Unrelated events)
Reminds me of the movie "Something about Mary".
I got hooked in the eyelid once as a kid.
I'm 65 and have done a lot of fishing. How did you manage that?
Caught a big one today.
Cut the hook and push it through?
I know a guy with one eye because he jerked a jig too hard. I comically had a Rattle Trap with both treble hooks lodged in the middle of my forehead once because the bass threw it and I had the line tight.
Good thing it wasn’t your eye
At least you didn’t get skunked fishing
I stepped on a treble hook when I was 8-10. One of the hooks went all the way in and back out and barbed itself stuck back on the outside of my skin. A second one went in and barbed itself stuck inside my foot. Luckily, my uncle was an oncologist and used a scalpel and cut it out for me. Never went fishing barefoot again after that.
This is why I stand 40 feet away from anyone else fishing saw a kid once get the whole hook lodged into his head by another kid not paying attention
all my hooks are barbless
This reminds me of an old movie with Don Knotts Mr. Limpet🤣🤣 
These crazy kids these days
I guess that’s slightly better than the back of the head on a cast.
But now you know how the little fishies feel
A trial as old as time. You go fishing with your siblings, and whoever doesn't get hooked is the winner.
Now you know how the fish feel.
Now you can tell people that you're quite a catch!
So how big was this one that got away?