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This had us rolling around again when it was brought up the other evening and I wondered if anyone else had any similar incidents that they are willing to confess to.
Back in the summer I was fishing a local lake with my regular fishing mate when I had just landed a tench.
Holding the net between my knees there was no sign of the hook around the fishes mouth so out came the disgorger from behind the ear and as I lowered the net slightly to get a bit of tension on the line and peered down into the it there was an unmistakable ping!
To my disbelief the hook had pinged straight out of the fishes mouth and shot straight up my left nostril!
Trying to keep calm I popped the tench back and then fiddled around as inconspicously as I could for what must have been a good five minutes with the disgorger up my nose, eyes streaming until I had to shout up...
"A mate you're not gonna believe this but I think I might need a hand".
I think his horror was greater than mine at the thought of having to poke around up my snout for a size eighteen and I lost count of the times I looked across to the next peg and through the tears could make out his shoulders going up and down with laughter as he looked the other way, contemplating the unthinkable and leaving me to it.
It was actually for him that I finally managed to remove it... he was saying a week or so earlier how his missus had told him off for borrowing her tweasers which he used to put on hair rig stops and I thought it was a good idea and popped a pair in my waistcoat too, and it was these that finally removed the hook after I had only managed to push it higher up with the disgorger.
He did say afterwards that if he had to help as a last resort he would have insisted I lay on the unhooking mat and pose for a trophy shot afterwards and it didn't stop him from posting it on the local club site (git)!
Thank God for barbless hooks!
Back in the summer I was fishing a local lake with my regular fishing mate when I had just landed a tench.
Holding the net between my knees there was no sign of the hook around the fishes mouth so out came the disgorger from behind the ear and as I lowered the net slightly to get a bit of tension on the line and peered down into the it there was an unmistakable ping!
To my disbelief the hook had pinged straight out of the fishes mouth and shot straight up my left nostril!
Trying to keep calm I popped the tench back and then fiddled around as inconspicously as I could for what must have been a good five minutes with the disgorger up my nose, eyes streaming until I had to shout up...
"A mate you're not gonna believe this but I think I might need a hand".
I think his horror was greater than mine at the thought of having to poke around up my snout for a size eighteen and I lost count of the times I looked across to the next peg and through the tears could make out his shoulders going up and down with laughter as he looked the other way, contemplating the unthinkable and leaving me to it.
It was actually for him that I finally managed to remove it... he was saying a week or so earlier how his missus had told him off for borrowing her tweasers which he used to put on hair rig stops and I thought it was a good idea and popped a pair in my waistcoat too, and it was these that finally removed the hook after I had only managed to push it higher up with the disgorger.
He did say afterwards that if he had to help as a last resort he would have insisted I lay on the unhooking mat and pose for a trophy shot afterwards and it didn't stop him from posting it on the local club site (git)!
Thank God for barbless hooks!