Sickles Always Pass The Sharpness Test
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Bucho
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Autsch! I´d rather use the fingernail for those tests...
looks like a rare case of push-through-and-cut being better than the ol` line loop
nice paint/coat job btw
looks like a rare case of push-through-and-cut being better than the ol` line loop
nice paint/coat job btw
PanfishHunter
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Yep the ole put it through dea skin trick the sickles will get ya!
AndyLane
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Yeah luckily it was pretty shallow. I was able to wiggle and back it out. My buddy had to get one cut out in the emergency room awhile back. He was unhooking a bass and it flopped and the hook came out of the bass and went straight through his finger tip and came out under his nail.
PanfishHunter
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that outta hurt! luckily i havent had one past the barb but i seen a saltwater guy ge a treble through his finger and it was under his nail. big ole hook too. since it was under the nail, they couldnt push though and mash the barb. so they got some pliers and yanked it. NO THANKS!
ragged edge
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Definitely qualifies as ahhh S^&*!
Bucko
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been there. Done that. seen a guy virtually scalped when his buddy got him on the head while trying to cast a big muskie bait... not a pretty site...
waynesburgjay
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Don't know why those sickles are so sharp like that but I got some 7/0 sickles for catfishing and they're real sharp
fishhunter775
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ouch now that didn't feel good, but must say that is gonna be hard to tye up onehanded.
BucktailJiger
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Ain't bleeding , didn't hurt 
Thats what grandpa always use to say . Found more than one point myself raking materials back , they are sharp li'l buggers thats for sure .
Thats what grandpa always use to say . Found more than one point myself raking materials back , they are sharp li'l buggers thats for sure .
BucktailJiger
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That gives noodling a whole new out look . Had to couldn't help it .
Yup. How did you manage to hook yourself at home?
I've never hooked myself past the barb, but I did manage an involuntary sickle sharpness test this spring. I was using a double jig setup under a bobber, with one jig tied about a foot below the other. I was standing on shore and snagged the bottom jig on a cattail. I couldn't quite reach the part of the leaf where the jig was snagged, so I grabbed it just above and pulled it toward me. Then it broke and snapped backward, driving the top jig right through the soft part of my thumbnail under the cuticle.
Thankfully it wasn't past the barb so I didn't have any trouble getting it out, but it still bled like a stuck pig and hurt like hell. Still have the bruise under my thumbnail. It will probably take a month or two to grow out.
One time I did a Google image search on the term hook eye because I couldn't remember if up eyes were bent toward or away from the point. Let me tell you, that's not a term you want to search for, and especially not right after lunch.
I've never hooked myself past the barb, but I did manage an involuntary sickle sharpness test this spring. I was using a double jig setup under a bobber, with one jig tied about a foot below the other. I was standing on shore and snagged the bottom jig on a cattail. I couldn't quite reach the part of the leaf where the jig was snagged, so I grabbed it just above and pulled it toward me. Then it broke and snapped backward, driving the top jig right through the soft part of my thumbnail under the cuticle.
Thankfully it wasn't past the barb so I didn't have any trouble getting it out, but it still bled like a stuck pig and hurt like hell. Still have the bruise under my thumbnail. It will probably take a month or two to grow out.
One time I did a Google image search on the term hook eye because I couldn't remember if up eyes were bent toward or away from the point. Let me tell you, that's not a term you want to search for, and especially not right after lunch.
PanfishHunter
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haha shoe, bet that hurt, it sounds painful. i saw a video of a guy that stuck octopus hooks in his arm voluntarily, and then a guy that got hookedin the lib with 2 pike lure trebles. OUCH
I was fine seeing Andy's minor injury...... i am positive that hurt, but just reading the rest of your replies is making my stomach roll. I've had a few impaled hooks but only two went in past the barb. One i cut out myself and the other was when i was pretty young and my mom drug me off to the hospital with a floating Rapala (black/silver) hanging from my thumb. The bass was released un-harmed. 
AndyLane
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"Ain't bleeding , didn't hurt" Yeah I've heard my dad and now myself say that a few times. lol
"How did you manage to hook yourself at home?"
Yeah I'm not to proud of myself with this one. I forgot to clean the eyes of a couple heads before I cured them and was trying to hold it while working a bodkin through the eyelet and it slipped. :beat-up:
"How did you manage to hook yourself at home?"
Yeah I'm not to proud of myself with this one.
I forgot to clean the eyes of a couple heads before I cured them and was trying to hold it while working a bodkin through the eyelet and it slipped. :beat-up:
PanfishHunter
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haha should have took a lighter to the bodkin to help work it through the eye. I been finned by catfish a few times real bad, but never hooked past a barb. I know itll happen one day.
StumpHunter
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O boy!! so many times I have come close to doing that with the sickles.
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Been there also.....looks pretty clean to cut and pull threw.....just another day. Was in a profession for a while that advised if you did not have pain the alternative is you do not feel the pain and are 6' under!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Pepop
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Nice paint job on that Ultra Minnow!! Glad you didn't have to cut the hook off. Woulda been a shame to waste that painted head!