Originally Posted by
Don Smith
My co-angler managed to flat whoop my butt at Barren this weekend. He needed a fifth fish, so I decided to stay put, they were there, but had changed the way they were biting. He set the hook on a 4+ lbs fish, I scrambeled for the net and waited patiently as he brought this fish up. She came up directly in front of the net, about 2 feet out of reach, and jumped. His natural instint was to try and "Pull" the fish into the net while she was airborn. That 5/8 D& L Jig came out and came out in a very big hurry. Hit me directly under the chin and just about knocked me out of the boat. Sad part is, after he gave himself a good cursing for doing that, he realized he had embedded that jig very very deep into my chin. That is probably the most painfull 6 hours of fishing I have done in a while, lol. Cut the hook with a set of cutters, and let him fish. All I can say is when the doctor says "Nurse, go get me the pair of Lineman's Pliers out of the drawer, you know your in for it, lol.
Did it come at you in slow motion?
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