Hand Feeding Pike Is Dangerous

In case you didn’t know hand feeding pike can be dangerous! Dick Derricks from the Netherlands sent us some photos and video of him hand feeding pike, he gets out of most encounters unscathed, most of them, but not this one.

Photos after the break!
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FishingFury Move Snag ‘08

It looks like Clive got a little over excited this evening thinking the site was already moved.. Unfortunately it hasn’t. Since I’m going to have to migrate the new data and files again I’m just going to leave the blog up here for now and handle everything once the update is complete. You may visit FishingFury at some point during the week and see an error message, worry not it just means that DNS has updated and you’re seeing the new server (but I haven’t updated the data and files). After I make the update final I will take down the old site and replace it with a moving message.

**UPDATE**
It looks like the site updated for me about an hour after posting this, so I have taken down the old site and put up the moved message. Hopefully DNS updates quickly for everyone else! Let the posting continue!

FishingFury Move Snag ‘08 – It felt like this.

Ouch

I busted a finger on my reeling hand while playing hockey Wednesday night. I’m not entirely sure if its broken or not, but the swelling is finally starting to go down so I’m not overly concerned. Needless to say, I’ve been reduced to typing with one hand and I should probably take a few days off from fishing…nahhhh.

Snagged; When Keeping Your Lure is Worse than Loosing it

Every fishermen gets snagged at one point or another, and just about every fishermen deals with it in the same way. You pull on it, whip your rod up and down, eventually you loose your patience with it tighten your drag all the way and give it one last heave. Either your line breaks or the lure comes free. Occasionally when that lure comes free it will fly out of the water heading straight for you, and unless you have ninja reflexes like me, its going to hit you. Generally its not a problem with smaller lures or softbaits. Just don’t try it with a 14″ Jake caught in a tree less than 10 feet from you, OK?

Darren Williams, a 34 year old machine operator from Wrexham, learned that very lesson last week fishing with friends. His line became snagged and just like I described earlier, he pulled on it as hard as he could. Unfortunatly for him, he doesn’t have ninja reflexes, the lead sinker (and a big one at that) broke through his eye socket and lodged itself in his face. After a trip to the hospital and 5 hours of surgery the doctors removed the weight and repaired his cheek bones with a metal plate. Darren’s not broken up one bit about the experience and even keeps his “lucky” lead weight in his pocket.

“I was so lucky – if it had been a few millimetres in the other direction then I would have lost my eye,” he said.

“I was fishing when the line got snagged on something and as I pulled it, I just felt something hit me on the face and knock me to the floor,” said Mr Williams.

“To be honest, I didn’t know what had happened, but when I put my hands to my face they were covered in blood. But my mates ran over to me and they could see the tip of the weight sticking out of my eye socket”.

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