About ten years ago I was fishing with a friend in his commercial troll boat off of the Oregon coast at Walport. I was driving the boat when I heard a yell. I ran back to find my friend holding his hand very tightly. If any of you know what a crabcutter is you will understand his pain. A crabcutter basically is a pair of scissors bolted open. They are placed on the downrigger cable with the intention of cutting any crabpot ropes that a boat might accidentally run into while in the open ocean. He ran the crabcutter across his open palm right in the pulley system. I learned that day that a lot of blood doesn't bother me. Yuck! I also got on the job training on how to run and put away a 42 foot fishing boat. Cool! Those boats only go about 10 knots so my challenge was to keep him awake for the long ride back to Newport. He still has some loss of feeling in that hand.

A funnier story was the time my best friend and I took our wives fishing for stocker trout. My wife put a roostertail in the cheek of my friend with her backcast. My friend was concentrating so hard,(because the girls were kicking our butts) that he didn't even take his eye off of his rod, he simply plucked it out and kept fishing. He had no other choice as the girls were laughing so hard they nearly peed their pants. Talk about adding insult to injury!!