Was fishing for pinks last season and had a great day. Landed 32 and my buddy landed 20+.

We were swimming jigs. (Yes you can fish jigs without a float and not snag fish, I caught over 50 fish this way and only one was foul hooked. At one point I watched 3 fish fight to take my buddies jig).

Anyway, I'd forgotten my pliers so was releasing the fish by hand and not suprisingly got stuck multiple times trying to get the jig free. One time right under my finger nail. All mildly painful but nothing too traumatic.

That was until a couple days later when the one under my finger nail got infected. You want to talk about pain, the pressure under my finger nail hurt like he!!.

A couple days later I was in the emergency room hooked up to IV antibiotics. The infection had shot up past my elbow. I lost my finger nail (those take a while to grow back) but otherwise recovered nicely and now have a pair of pliers tied on my vest.