Took Jr. fishing on Friday. We just launched and made maybe 10 casts max and we see lightning. Look to the west and see dark clouds and a black sky. Pull over to a mid-river island to check the radar on my iPhone. We decide to paddle back to the takehout. As we are pushing off from the island, Jr. hooks himself in the calf with one of Jeff Little's lures! The 1/8th ounce draggin head is all the way into his claf past the bend in the hook. Pulled on it and it wasn't going anywhere due to the barb. So we cut the line and paddled like crazy. Got caught in a massive down pour of rain. Got Jr. to a clinic where they had to cut the thing out of his leg. Now he's on 10 days of antibiotics. He says he won't be fishing a tube for a while.
What happened was that he had the rod laying flat with the tip of the rod past the bow of his kayak. The lure was wound tight to the rod tip. When he pushed the kayak off the island, he was still standing there and the rod tip/lure caught him in the back of the calf. The momentum and mass of the kayak pulled the hook deep into his calf.
I was bored yesterday and thought about fishing, but didn't feel up to going without Jr. So I washed and waxed my 1992 Volvo instead. It rolled over 214,000 miles as I was taking Jr. to the emergency clinic to get the hook out of his leg.
What happened was that he had the rod laying flat with the tip of the rod past the bow of his kayak. The lure was wound tight to the rod tip. When he pushed the kayak off the island, he was still standing there and the rod tip/lure caught him in the back of the calf. The momentum and mass of the kayak pulled the hook deep into his calf.
I was bored yesterday and thought about fishing, but didn't feel up to going without Jr. So I washed and waxed my 1992 Volvo instead. It rolled over 214,000 miles as I was taking Jr. to the emergency clinic to get the hook out of his leg.
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