ok here goes,
back in my bulletproof days when I thought it wise to drift down the sky in a 12 foot gamefisher(prison on down to snohomish). we were pulling steellee wiggle warts for coho one day and I hooked a dandy and as I was bringing it to the boat yelling "get the net!!!" my fishing partner informed me he had left it in the back of the truck. but "all's ya got's to do is grab that big fish by the head and the tail at the same time and plop 'er in the boat."
so I reach out and place one hand under the head and grab the tail. It almost worked, got the fish about 2 feet out of the water before I lost grip, thats when the front hook on the wiggle wart got stuck in my finger, it went in right before the center of my finger print and tryed to come out the back side of my nail but lucky for me it found the bone first.
so here I am my finger on the front hook the coho thrashing around in the water on the back hook and my partner screaming "don't let go the line broke!!." He stumbles to the back oof the boat grabs the tail and belly and throws the fish and my finger in the boat. then grabs the 2x4 and wacks it a couple of times in the head to make sure it won't get away. finaly he looks at me and says "you can let go now it's dead"

After that he realized what was going on and we took the hook out of the fish and I gave a mighty pull on the hook and nearly passed out from the pain. So he rows to shore, ties up the boat and we hike back to the truck luckly we hadn't gone very far. and it's off to the clinic to get the hook. As he was driveing I kept complaning that the @#$# plug was rattling every time He hit a bump and sending shooting pains up my arm. After a shot of novicaine the doc got the hook out and we went back to fishing.
We got no more silvers that day but I did catch a nice cutthrout later in the day on the same plug we had the net this time. the coho weighed 10 lbs on the clinics scale.

by the way thats why I'm rattlefish.