Quote Originally Posted by Buckrub13 View Post
Forgot to mention. Same evening my fishing partner was up on the front deck with me casting. He got a little too close and while launching his DD22, on his follow thru, buried the lure in the back of my skull. That one wasn't my fault though.
Same thing happened to me. 3 full sized men fishing in a 14 foot jon boat. I was in the rear, and the guy in the middle casted. The problem came when the rooster tail connected with my skull behind my ear and hung on. While everything was happening, my mind registered the event, and how hard he was trying to throw the bait. I had visions of my scalp being ripped off and being a trailer on his rooster tail. Lucky for me, his bait caster backlashed so bad that he had to cut the line out, and I got to keep all my scalp. Only damage was one little pin prick where one of the hooks did go in. From then on though,the sound of someone casting close to me, makes my PTSD act up.