While on the Trinity last week, I was swinging a small fly downriver when it got hooked on a rock about thirty feet below me. I'm yanking on the line trying to dislodge it, when all of a sudden "doink", it comes free and the line and fly come flying back towards me.
Before I could duck, the next thing I know, I have a size 10 soft hackle stuck deeply in the INSIDE of my nose!! Immediately my eyes start watering as I try to gently pull it out. Not so easy to get my big fingers in there gripping a tiny hook bend.
For what seemed like an eternity, I'm pulling on this thing having visions of walking into the emergency room with a fly for a nose piercing.
I told myself just to grit my teeth and yank it out. I did. And it hurt! But the fly was out and I was back to fishing minus the embarrassment of having the whole world see my new piercing.
And thank God for barbless hooks.
Before I could duck, the next thing I know, I have a size 10 soft hackle stuck deeply in the INSIDE of my nose!! Immediately my eyes start watering as I try to gently pull it out. Not so easy to get my big fingers in there gripping a tiny hook bend.
For what seemed like an eternity, I'm pulling on this thing having visions of walking into the emergency room with a fly for a nose piercing.
I told myself just to grit my teeth and yank it out. I did. And it hurt! But the fly was out and I was back to fishing minus the embarrassment of having the whole world see my new piercing.
And thank God for barbless hooks.
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