[Jigman13]

One blooper this year. It started off scary but luckily wound up garnering a few chuckles once I realized I didnt impale my jugular or carotid in my neck.

I was out bass fishing on the Clark Reservoir in a damp rain with a fishing buddy from shore in mid May. I was tossing unweighted senkos on a worm hook. I make a flip along a shoreline under a bunch of tree branches and start working the worm back to me when I got hung up on a submerged log. The skin-hook must've given way b/c the worm hook was buried pretty good. I knew I wasn't getting the hook back so I tighten the drag and go to pop the line. Well, something certainly popped--unfortunately it wasn't the line. The hook actually broke right at the curve and the shaft shot back at me and speared me right under the jaw bone on the left side of my neck. I didnt feel a goddamn thing. All I noticed was the line coming from the tip of my rod back to me. It took a few seconds to realize where it ended as I softly and cautiously followed it up to my neck. All I felt was slightly elevated skin on my neck where the hook shaft went fully in, and the hook eye and knot on the outside. I turned and called for my buddy, and told him to get ready to go to the hospital. After a minute or so I told him I'm going to pull the hook shaft out of my neck. He started getting pale--not cool. So I pull it out and hope blood doesn't come streaming out. Luckily, it didnt--it just beaded up and slowly accumulated as it would with, say, a pin prick. It had to have just missed something vital in my neck. Fortunately for me I didnt have to find out. And I also learned that I tie exceptional knots! Here's a pic of the hook shaft that speared me and a blurry/bloody pic of my neck where it went in. Scary shit!