Damn if it didn't take 10 years. It finally happened. I got a 4/0 vmc treble into the fingerprint of my pinky, straight in well past the barb right to the bend. Left pinky. I opened the side door of my van to take out some big signs and when I tried to pick up the first sign it slipped and my finger got caught by the hook on one of the display lures. Tried to get it out right there, even pulled my leatherman to try and pull it but was way in.
I decided that it needed to get cut immediately before the sign fell or something else happened. I carried it inside the shop and to the bench, knipex cut at the bend so there was now just a 1/4" stub sticking out. Couldn't budge it and it was bleeding pretty good. Spent 15 minutes sweating on it trying to remove it before I decided to use a fresh xacto knife to cut the skin a bit to find the barb. I knew what side the barb was on and looking at another hook I could tell it was in about 1/8", I cut it 3 times little by little and still couldn't get it out. DAmn! then all of a sudden while working on it POP and it came right out.
Damn that hurts.
I have a policy of ALWAYS having hook guards on hooks in the shop. It took 10 years for it to happen. Even fishing I am SUPER careful. One slip and it figures it's on a hook that the guard was missing. Freakin wonderful.
I fell in a manhole this week and wrecked my leg up pretty bad. Now this. What's next.