Originally Posted by
Flyoverland Captive
This is why you never fish without sunglasses.
True story: musky fishing with my brother; the fish are on a bite, we caught five or six monsters in a half hour. One other boat is working the area. We get close to them, and notice that only one guy is casting, while his friend is sitting in the front of the boat drinking beer. We approach and start chatting; seems the beer guy has a huge treble hook going clear through his thumb. His friend wouldn't go in because the fish were biting, and they didn't have a wire cutter. We lent them a cutter, they cut off the barb and pulled the hook out; guy was almost crying with joy (or maybe it was the twelve beers he had consumed.) They kept fishing, though; dedication.