This forum is for general discussion related to Angling. Areas covered would include Media Reports, Conservation Issues and the promotion of the sport.
Well I can add to my fishin injury list thankfully nothing serious, whilst packing the gear down yesterday, I was folding a tent and watch the other half blow down the beach, I raced of in my barefeet in chase of the tent and stubbed my toe, which I think is now broken its black and blue now, (correct me if im wrong but theres nothin really they can do for a broken toe is there? its straight, but just hurts when any pressure is applied) anyways I aint letting good bait go to waste so i'm heading out today injured or not! its amazing that sea air can heal anything, let alone the pull of a bass!
list 2013 (10) Ballan Wrasse, (17) Smooth Hounds (6lb, 2oz, best so far this year), (47) LSD, (2) shore Rockling, (1) Long spine scorpion, (9) flounder, (8) Dab (2)Bass (3) Mackerel (2) lance (2) Plaice (2) Pollock (1) whiting
years ago when i was 7, we fishing the canals for pike, always was amazed by fly fishing, so be young and thick i taught i try it out in the comfort of the back garden so nobody could see me perfect the art, so set up my 8 foot spinning rod with just a weight on the end, yes a 4 oz lead weight, dangled the line out in front of me and set about my first effort as a fly fisher man, swinging the rod hard over my head the weight swung around hitting me hard in the arse, been the hard lad headed straight for the shed and dumped the rod, went inside and checked out the damaged, i managed to get one of those brused blood lumps right in the cheek, couldnt sit down for 2 days,but couldn't tell anyone what happened, and now near 30 years later fly fishing is the only type of fishing i have never attemped.
done my ankle in last year peir fishing, that story is in the shore report.
only other scar is from my first doggie, the git brought his tail around and cleaned the skin off the back of my hand, lesson learned, hold them by head and tail.
in feb 2005, was fishing a competition off the conger rock in Kinsale, I slipped whilst reeling in my 12th cod of the day, and my foot landed in a v shaped crevasse in the rocks, I heard the crack as I hit the ground, but the fish was still on, so I reeled it in (4lb) and calling my buddy for help. he came over an checked me to see I had quiet a bad ankle break, so he called the ambulance and fire brigade, and whilst waiting, he took my peelers and kept on fishing until he had 12 as well and stopped (we were joint 1st lol)
I had snapped both bones in my leg about 3" up from the joint, and I had also torn all the ankle ligaments......
Surgeon said if I hadn't been wearing mountain boots the splintered bone would have come out through my leg, and as the ambulance took over 2 hrs to get to me, and transport me to hospital there could have been a nasty outcome from blood loss...makes you think
a 4" plate, 6 screws, lots of morphine, 2 operations 1 for ligaments and the other for the scaffolding lol, and 12 weeks in a cast later all was well....
i still have all the metal in there, and no it doesn't set off airport alarms much to my annoyance
DaveJolly one word.....OOOOOOOOUUUUUCCCHHHH!!!! Cringing here reading that, and he took your peelers??? ..(Cool the two of yas came joint 1st)
But 2hrs for emerengcy help on a shore/coastal mark?? Gez thank >>> you werent stuck out on a sandbar!! Could the coastguard be got quicker?
list 2013 (10) Ballan Wrasse, (17) Smooth Hounds (6lb, 2oz, best so far this year), (47) LSD, (2) shore Rockling, (1) Long spine scorpion, (9) flounder, (8) Dab (2)Bass (3) Mackerel (2) lance (2) Plaice (2) Pollock (1) whiting
its black and blue now, (correct me if im wrong but theres nothin really they can do for a broken toe is there? its straight, but just hurts when any pressure is applied) anyways I aint letting good bait go to waste so i'm heading out today injured or not! 
