hazards of shark fishin

I got stuck with a hook when my 6 year old son's rod went off and the Tarpon almost took him overboard. I tied my son to the boat and I thought I could push the hook through and cut it off. It was in my nail and I just could not do it. It was only a 1/0 hook and I was embarrassed I could not get out such a small hook. I twisted the hook down and tapped it to my finger. We landed the 40lb Tarpon on his 5ft ugly stick and 12lb test. My finger was throbbing and we were getting ready to motor back to the dock when he got another 40lb tarpon that night. I finally went got to the hospital and I received 4 shots just behind my fingernail, then the doctor used a pliers to pull it out. I should have done it myself because the shots were more painful then the hook.

I can't imagine being impaled with a 12/0 or 14/0 hook and a shark is thrashing around on the other end or a boat is towing you out to sea.

Ya play with fire ya gona get burnt. A little flesh and blood given for ya adrinlin fix ant so bad. I say the shark ant the most dangrous thing for the land based sharker. The water and the waves combined with a rock or sand bag tied to it with a sharp large hook in the tangle when ya turn over. Or a splice geting caught in the eye of the rod and puting the hook in ya belly causing ya to turn over with a beach rock tied to your hooked butt. I can swim to the beach but the story is diffrent when a hook is some where in ya. I also once had a boat run between me and the beach and caught my line. I was in an allumnum canoe and had the hook on the rear cross bar. Wow what a ride! it drug me side ways in the canoe for probaly 50 yds or so. Thank god the hook was secure and did not come flying out and get me on the way out.It took the boat off plane, by that time the dummy looked back and saw me in the swamped canoe and Sean on the beach. He got the line off his motor and left me with a swamped canoe. If I could have got my hands on him his boating days would have been over. Every one please wear a life vest and never let go of ya boat. We will live through a shark bite but when ya drown, ya are dead.

I have always thought this was the most dangerous part of shark fishing..some clown in a boat running over your line and dragging you. One time I had to drop my bait before I even got halfway to the spot where I was trying to drop it to save myself from getting dragged by some idiot..also, I was only about 120 yards from shore at the time and he was going about 40 mph through a no wake zone. There is nothing I can't stand worse than idiot boaters and weekend "warriors" speeding right along the shoreline where people go to swim, surf, fish, ect..they are scum.

yeah that looks a little painful shae.