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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Binder on April 07, 2012, 05:26:05 AM
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Got a rude shock yesterday when out on North Pine Dam.
Got in to location and dropped the stern anchor over the side, letting the rope slide through my hand so as to make the deployment as quiet as possible.
Only in about 6 foot of water, and those tillies spook easy.
As the anchor dropped I felt a sudden pain in my finger, looked up in time to see a lure embedded in the anchor rope going over the side, with blood everywhere on the top of my hand.
Ouch I said to my daughter. Although she is adamant I said a little more than that.
One barb had gone in the centre of the index finger pad,, and ripped through the top of my finger until it hit the nail leaving a nice jagged rip in the top of my index finger. 15lb anchor, it was never not going to keep going. It could have been so much worse if the lure had been on the other side of the rope and gone through my palm.
Obviously the lure had dropped in to the bucket of anchor rope at some stage on my last trip and I had not noticed it missing.
It did have one good point thought, albrights are dead easy to tie in light line in windy conditions when the line is covered in blood!
I will be both counting my lures and having a good look at the anchor rope from now on!
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You make me laugh Andrew, you always see a positive, out of a negitive.
Nasty scare BTW, I agree, I reckon you would have said more than bugger......I know I would have.
On another positive, at least you found the lure.
Don't go pick'in ya nose!
Cheers Dave
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Nice one Andrew, I hope you'd crushed the barb before to dropped it in the bucket. Sneaky little buggers those lures, you never know when one's going to bite you. Bracy's right about the nose thing BTW.
JD
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Didn't have to worry about crushed barbs, it just pulled right through and kept going like a plough!
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Ouch!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I felt that as I read your report Andrew. It's not the first lure to be caught in the anchor rope.
Mine gave me a set of Trebbles in the palm of the hand and I clutched it all the way to the Kilcoy hospital.
BG
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Ah ... no thankyou ,,,, would have been an experience
Steve