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Went fishing on the pier at the Leesylvania State Park on Sunday. Though the pier was crowded fishing was great. The pier was crowd was family oriented with little children with Snoopy rods on a worm and bobber. Then this guy gets onto the pier with 3 long 15 foot surf pole and started casting over people heads and when he caught a fish he would reel in all the way to the tip of his rod and swing the fish over the pier rail. I was thinking to myself, "man, this guy is dangerous and he will get himself or somone around him hurt." To make a long story short he ended hooking me!!!!
As he was swinging one of his fish over it got caught on the top of the pier railing. I was thinking if that fish spit the hook that 2 way rig would would hit someone. Being the friendly fisherman that i was i grabbed the top of the metal leader and swung it over for him and placed the fish on the deck of the pier. The fish then thrashed around and spit the hook!!!! Now imagine this. This 15 foot surf pole was bowed like at big bow getting ready to fire an arrow a thousand yard. (the line was never loosen.) When that fish spit that hook the rig shot up and hooked me right on the hand. The hook happens to be those sharp Tru-Turn hooks. It was very painful because the hook had gone deep into the skin. After 30 minutes on doing the "Rambo" style self surgery I then decided to see the doctor. So what started out nice, the sun was warm and fishing was great-i was in the Potomac Hospital Emergency Room for 2 hours. What lessons were learned here? Should i have not helped the guy? Should i tell him to be more careful? From all my years fishing at the piers in the Hampton Roads and NC I should have know better. I would always instruct the person with the fish on what to do-i should have told him to loosen his line after i had the leader in my hand. Has anyone had any accidents on the pier before? Please share your story.
~SPG
~SPG