I took a tater in the face/eye last year. Good noodle/eye protection is a MUST! Have yet to catch on fire, though.

I watched Sparkey catch on fire. That was funny!

PS Vince - our only fish came on a plug last year. Bob had hooked like 13 the day before on plugs and were were SET on winning the SRC. We had the plugs, we knew where they were...blah, blah, blah. Go figure that those slimerockets didn't want anything to do with plugs the next day.

The downside to plugs is that you will probably lose your plug if you hook a fish. Not because the fish is gonna break you off, it's because the 45 other boats all fighting to net that fish ends up breaking it off......unless you are BNelson and can magically get your winning plug-caught fish in and around 85 nets and in to your boat.