Painfully hooked
Nov 22, 2019 13:11:14 #
greenfrog
Loc: Central NJ
Looks like more people hook themselves than I thought. Be careful don't want to see any more lures on that board. Pictures below.
Painfully hooked: Adirondack hospital fishing lure display is no joke.
By David Figura | dfigura@nyup.com
SARANAC LAKE, N.Y. – Sometimes fishermen get hooked in a painful way.
Gary Nye, a physician assistant in the emergency room at the Adirondack Medical Center in Saranac Lake for more than 20 years, has treated numerous anglers who’ve come in with the treble hooks from fishing lures stuck on their thumbs, arms or legs, ears, noses, eyelids, lips, the side of their necks, the back of their heads – nearly every body part.
He said he’s taken lures off several patients’ penises and scrotums, adding those incidents occurred when the individuals were fishing with small bathing suits, or skimpy, loose-hanging shorts with nothing on underneath. “Usually alcohol has something to do with it,” he added.
As a testimony to Nye’s services and other hospital staff to Adirondack area anglers, the hospital in 1990 began asking individuals to contribute the lures staff removed for posting on a bulletin board where they could be displayed for all to see.
Today, there are more than 100 lures displayed on two, side-by-side bulletin boards in the main lobby area of the hospital. One board notes lures taken from anglers from 1990 to 2000. The other, 2000 to 20??. On top of the display boards is a sign that says, “THE ONES THAT DIDN’T GET AWAY.”
The board includes a hunting arrow with a razor-sharp broadhead, but Nye and others interviewed said they could not remember the story behind it.
Betsy Fuller, a nurse in the hospital’s ER for 20 years, said among recent patients was one who removed his wet boots after fishing and then happened to step on a lure and a treble hook became embedded in one of his heels.
She remembers one individual who came in with the treble hooks from a lure stuck on both thumbs.
He was fishing at Colby Lake across the street from the hospital, reached into his shoe to get a lure and it got stuck on one of his thumbs. As he tried to take it off, he ended up getting the lure’s other set of treble hooks caught on his other thumb.
She’s not sure, but she suspects alcohol was involved in that incident as well, she said.
The lure display was the idea of Dr. Michael Pond, the hospital’s former medical director, who is a fisherman as well. The hospita, a short drive just west of Lake Placid, has the only full-service emergency room within the Adirondack Park.
Sometime in the late 1990s or 2000s, he said, “someone cut out and stole four to five antique lures out of the case. I mean, these were absolutely gorgeous and expensive lures – Pikie Minnows and (other) things. (They) were made out of wood and painted.”
As a safeguard against further thievery, the two display boards are now encased in glass and under lock and key.
Nye said he’s removed lures embedded in patients ranging in age from 2 to 90.
So how does one remove a barbed hook stuck on an angler or any other unfortunate individual?
“95 percent of the time I can get the hook out without snipping the barb or pushing the hook all the way through,” Nye said.
He said he usually begins by put tape over the lure’s other hooks to prevent further problems. Then, an anesthetic is injected into the wound.
The anesthetic serves two purposes. It deadens the pain and it also results in fluid around the wound and the barb. He said he then grasps the hook with a suture holding device.
“And then with a little twist and flip of the wrist, the hook comes right out,” he said.
Nye said not all the lures could readily be removed by emergency room staff.
There were a few cases where a hook went into the “globe of an individual’s eye.” In those cases, he said, the patient was immediately referred to an eye surgeon.
Nye estimated about 85 percent of the patients with fish hook problems are “out of towners.”
One patient, Herb Beadle, of Sodus, N.Y. sent the ER staff a thank you note, enclosing the lure (an orange Flatfish) for display on the board. His note reads:
“Just wanted to say thanks again for the treatment you folks provided last Saturday while removing the fishing hook from my thumb. I was very pleased with the friendly, professional and timely care you all provided.
“I wish we could get care like that here in the Rochester area.”
Every patient is asked if they want to donate their lure afterward, but not all do.
Some anglers want their lures back,” Fuller said. “I’ve had some say it’s their lucky lure and they don’t want the barbs removed.”
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https://www.newyorkupstate.com/adirondacks/2019/07/painfully-hooked-fishing-lure-display-at-adirondack-hospital-is-no-joke.html
Painfully hooked: Adirondack hospital fishing lure display is no joke.
By David Figura | dfigura@nyup.com
SARANAC LAKE, N.Y. – Sometimes fishermen get hooked in a painful way.
Gary Nye, a physician assistant in the emergency room at the Adirondack Medical Center in Saranac Lake for more than 20 years, has treated numerous anglers who’ve come in with the treble hooks from fishing lures stuck on their thumbs, arms or legs, ears, noses, eyelids, lips, the side of their necks, the back of their heads – nearly every body part.
He said he’s taken lures off several patients’ penises and scrotums, adding those incidents occurred when the individuals were fishing with small bathing suits, or skimpy, loose-hanging shorts with nothing on underneath. “Usually alcohol has something to do with it,” he added.
As a testimony to Nye’s services and other hospital staff to Adirondack area anglers, the hospital in 1990 began asking individuals to contribute the lures staff removed for posting on a bulletin board where they could be displayed for all to see.
Today, there are more than 100 lures displayed on two, side-by-side bulletin boards in the main lobby area of the hospital. One board notes lures taken from anglers from 1990 to 2000. The other, 2000 to 20??. On top of the display boards is a sign that says, “THE ONES THAT DIDN’T GET AWAY.”
The board includes a hunting arrow with a razor-sharp broadhead, but Nye and others interviewed said they could not remember the story behind it.
Betsy Fuller, a nurse in the hospital’s ER for 20 years, said among recent patients was one who removed his wet boots after fishing and then happened to step on a lure and a treble hook became embedded in one of his heels.
She remembers one individual who came in with the treble hooks from a lure stuck on both thumbs.
He was fishing at Colby Lake across the street from the hospital, reached into his shoe to get a lure and it got stuck on one of his thumbs. As he tried to take it off, he ended up getting the lure’s other set of treble hooks caught on his other thumb.
She’s not sure, but she suspects alcohol was involved in that incident as well, she said.
The lure display was the idea of Dr. Michael Pond, the hospital’s former medical director, who is a fisherman as well. The hospita, a short drive just west of Lake Placid, has the only full-service emergency room within the Adirondack Park.
Sometime in the late 1990s or 2000s, he said, “someone cut out and stole four to five antique lures out of the case. I mean, these were absolutely gorgeous and expensive lures – Pikie Minnows and (other) things. (They) were made out of wood and painted.”
As a safeguard against further thievery, the two display boards are now encased in glass and under lock and key.
Nye said he’s removed lures embedded in patients ranging in age from 2 to 90.
So how does one remove a barbed hook stuck on an angler or any other unfortunate individual?
“95 percent of the time I can get the hook out without snipping the barb or pushing the hook all the way through,” Nye said.
He said he usually begins by put tape over the lure’s other hooks to prevent further problems. Then, an anesthetic is injected into the wound.
The anesthetic serves two purposes. It deadens the pain and it also results in fluid around the wound and the barb. He said he then grasps the hook with a suture holding device.
“And then with a little twist and flip of the wrist, the hook comes right out,” he said.
Nye said not all the lures could readily be removed by emergency room staff.
There were a few cases where a hook went into the “globe of an individual’s eye.” In those cases, he said, the patient was immediately referred to an eye surgeon.
Nye estimated about 85 percent of the patients with fish hook problems are “out of towners.”
One patient, Herb Beadle, of Sodus, N.Y. sent the ER staff a thank you note, enclosing the lure (an orange Flatfish) for display on the board. His note reads:
“Just wanted to say thanks again for the treatment you folks provided last Saturday while removing the fishing hook from my thumb. I was very pleased with the friendly, professional and timely care you all provided.
“I wish we could get care like that here in the Rochester area.”
Every patient is asked if they want to donate their lure afterward, but not all do.
Some anglers want their lures back,” Fuller said. “I’ve had some say it’s their lucky lure and they don’t want the barbs removed.”
*For more Upstate New York Outdoors on Facebook, go to Upstate NY Outdoors on NYup.com. We’d appreciate a “like.”
https://www.newyorkupstate.com/adirondacks/2019/07/painfully-hooked-fishing-lure-display-at-adirondack-hospital-is-no-joke.html
The two bulletin board display lures that were removed from anglers by hospital emergency staff. Carrie Skiff, the hospital's ER director, is pictured.
Gary Nye, a physician assistant, has worked at the hospital for more than 20 years and has personally removed a number of lures that were stuck on anglers.
A thank you note from an appreciative patient is part of the display.
Nov 22, 2019 13:28:55 #
Dennisjj
Loc: Kinston N.C.
Thats unreal never thought there would be that many.Thanks to the Dr.and nurse.
Nov 22, 2019 14:07:34 #
BankStalker
Loc: Friendswood TX
I got a friend thats been hooked in the arm twice. Hes always throwing trout plugs w/ trebles. twice he has called a friend went to their house and they stuck his arm in ice ,,, he said it eventually gets numb enough you can pull it out , I dont know about though, but his story is true
Nov 22, 2019 14:53:33 #
Thanks for sharing, Greenfrog. I'll bet you typed that post up in what, 3 - 5 minutes? I for sure, and I would guess many others appreciate the effort. Thank you, it was very interesting, unfortunate, but interesting.
Nov 22, 2019 15:14:34 #
My 21 y/o grandson hooked me through the pants and into the leg on a Canadian fishing trip. We were 50 miles from a doctor. Fortunately, he is going to Med. School and he took care of me. We had to cut the hook, take the pants off, push the barb out through the other part of the skin and then pull the hook out. I always carry a forceps on my lanyard to remove hooks from the sterilized fish's mouth and I always carry a spray bottle of alcohol and a spray bottle of pine sol in my backpack. No problems, no infection, everything was good. My son, who was also fishing with us carries alcohol and pine sol now, I had told him to before but it went right over his head. It's a good idea to do that, guys.
Nov 22, 2019 16:43:19 #
Is a good idea fg.
I always have forceps and needle nose pliers.
Just not the purification fluids.
Gonna change that.
I always have forceps and needle nose pliers.
Just not the purification fluids.
Gonna change that.
Nov 22, 2019 16:45:58 #
Nov 22, 2019 18:35:30 #
I had a friend that took his boss fishing once. His boss was fishing the back seat. He went to cast a Rat-L-Trap and somehow hooked his boss through is tongue. Yeah, that's what he said, through his tongue. OUCH!
Luckily he had a pair of side cuts big enough to cut the barb off the hook and get it out. His boss just stuffed a wad of chewing tobacco in his mouth and they continued fishing. His boss is evidently one tough character.
Luckily he had a pair of side cuts big enough to cut the barb off the hook and get it out. His boss just stuffed a wad of chewing tobacco in his mouth and they continued fishing. His boss is evidently one tough character.
Nov 22, 2019 21:05:41 #
I was bass fishing once and we were throwing spinner baits with trebles. My buddy rared back to cast and his treble hooked my right ear lobe. It came out on his down swing as fast as it went in. He didn’t know it until I called him an unrepeatable word or two, then I told him I always wondered how that would feel and now I know. Did y’all know the earlobe will bleed forever? It was quite a mess.
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Nov 22, 2019 23:34:52 #
greenfrog
Loc: Central NJ
My friend went to cast hard and drove the treble hook right in my back. The line broke and two of the barbs were in. That ended with a trip to the ER.
Ed was fly casting and got the fly stuck right inside of his nose on a back cast. Tough guy just pulled it right out himself. It bled for a while.
Flyguy your welcome. It was copy and paste.
Ed was fly casting and got the fly stuck right inside of his nose on a back cast. Tough guy just pulled it right out himself. It bled for a while.
Flyguy your welcome. It was copy and paste.
Nov 23, 2019 07:42:41 #
I'll have to learn how to do that. One of my grandsons has been trying to do that but he has been unsuccessful.
Nov 23, 2019 11:22:47 #
flyguy wrote:
I'll have to learn how to do that. One of my grandsons has been trying to do that but he has been unsuccessful.
Your grandson wants to hook a fly in his nose?! You ought to tell him about that experience and how much it hurt and bled flyguy. Whew!😢
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Nov 23, 2019 11:37:56 #
JRK227
Loc: Cedarburg, WI
I always have a side cutter in my boat. Have only had to use it once to cut barbs and then remove hooks. I always carry cloth Band-Aids in my tackle bag as well.
Nov 23, 2019 12:04:49 #
I carry all that’s necessary, in my Kayak, to fix a wound, except gun wounds from me trespassing.🤥
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Nov 23, 2019 15:59:34 #
Tackle box must have. Super Glue, it works perfectly to close wounds/cuts until you can get proper care.
Cheers!!
Cheers!!
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