Caught a nasty, nasty, nasty 12lb. hatchery silver on a small west end OP river last weekend. The thing had a green face and a fuschia body, with big blotches of staphococcus all over it. Needless to say I wasn't thrilled about having to handle it for release...

...I caught it on my last pink powdercoated spoon so really all I was interested in was getting my spoon back. Uh-oh, no pliers....

So I grabbed the lure by the body and picked up the fish to alow it to 'self-release'....in doing so the fish twisted, broke the hook at the eye (make all the 'hook brand' jokes you'd like here, but if you do I will be forced to tell you which brand it was!)and sliced my finger wide open.

In my case you could sub-title this thread 'when you are a dumbass'....