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[laguna]

Nice fish for my mate Alan yesterday, thrashing about trying to unhook in the net, ended with hook barb through his finger ouch! Quickly pushed through flesh to expose and I snipped it off with a pair of Fox snips (barb not the finger). No time for photos so fish back ASAP... slid down the embankment on wet grass and I fell in!
Fish returned none the worse for wear

(canal pike, Dewsbury)

 

[peter crabtree]

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[john step]

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I put a like but not sure thats the reaction!! OUCH might be more appropriate

 

[sagalout]

Chris, it is worth noting for any future occurrence, if you cut off the finger not the barb it will prevent it happening again to that finger. I can assure you that this is a fact, because since cutting the top off my finger in a circular saw some 30 years ago that finger has not had the top cut off it again.

 

[laguna]

Chris, it is worth noting for any future occurrence, if you cut off the finger not the barb it will prevent it happening again to that finger. I can assure you that this is a fact, because since cutting the top off my finger in a circular saw some 30 years ago that finger has not had the top cut off it again.

Brilliant!