scdiver

Not exactly a catastophe, but last summer while trolling we hooked up with a king mack and as I was walking to the bow for my buddy to gaff the king at the stern, I stepped straight onto a bottom rig with a 7/0 J hook from the rod in the horizontal mount. It was already rigged for bottom fishing after we finished trolling and was positioned perfectly to hook my foot as it came back to the deck. The hook went straight in all the way to the bottom of the J into my foot so there was not going to be any pushing the hook through and cutting off the barb. I finished reeling in the king, let my buddy gaff him and proceeded to figure out what to do about the hook. It is 8am and we are 25 miles offshore and I do not want to ride all the way back to the dock with a hook buried in my foot. I eventually used some KANK+A mouth numbing medicine from the first aid kit to numb my foot as I cut out the hook with a swiss army knife until I could see the barb and pulled the hook out the rest of the way. I made sure it wasn't bleeding too bad, applied some gauze and wrapped the gauze to my foot using black electrical tape because the medical tape was not holding on the wet deck. We ended up fishing the rest of the day, caught some more kings, a dolphin, and put some bottom fish in the boat as well. We no longer rig up bottom rigs with hooks for fishing until we are ready to actually bottom fish.