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Hey guys, I posted this in the general knife forum but I guess maybe it belonged here in the spyderco forum, not sure. Anyway, here ya go.
Hi all, I am going to tell u about my day and it might sound a little hard to believe, but this is exactly how it went down. I have been waiting anxiously for my new dragonfly salt to arrive and I finally got it yesterday. I am pleased with the knife and it came from the factory with a really sharp edge! I hung it on my neck cord and got my fishing gear ready for the next morning.
So, I get up this morning and load up my kayak and take off for the point. Here's where it gets weird...About mid morning I hook into a 4-5 pound needle fish...and he's PISSED! Mid fight, he turned towards the boat and jumped and hit me right in the head! Hard! Seriously, REALLY HARD!! He was moving super fast! Cut me with his teeth! But it gets worse! The treble hook on the 6" rapala in his mouth buried itself DEEP in the side of my head! So now I've got a hook stuck in my scalp thats also connected to a 5 pound pissed off razor toothed fish thats flopping around...violently! Lol, I know this must sound made up...even I'm having trouble believing it! I'm telling you, this actually happened! The guys on the charter boat next to me saw the whole thing!!
So luckily for me, after just a few seconds, the needle fish dislodges the lure from his mouth and swims away. Now im sitting in my kayak with a treble hook stuck in my head! As i said, there was a charter boat fishing the same point and they saw what happened. I paddled over to them and they had me get on their boat so they could help me. Now, I forgot to mention that I was wearing a mesh baseball hat and the hook went through it before going into my skin. So the hat is hooked to my head! Ok, here's where spidie comes to the rescue...the captain pulls out a bait knife and starts sawing on the hat to cut it away, because he can't get to the hook with the hat there. After a couple of minutes he gets frustrated (actually he was kind of freaking out a bit...I kept having to tell him to relax) and said he can't cut the hat away and I should go in and go to the hospital. I pulled the little spyderco off my neck and handed it to him! Lmfao, the funny part is, right then I wasn't worried about the hook in my head! All I was thinking was, "man, this guys gonna crap his pants when he sees how sharp my knife is! He's gonna be so jealous!" Hahaha.
So, about 3 seconds later the hat is gone! The dragonfly ate it like it wasn't even there. The guy grabbed the hook with some pliers and pushed it the rest of the way through my scalp and then snipped the barb off. Problem solved and I went back to fishing. Actually scored some really nice spanish mackerel after that. The moral of this story is you just never know when youre going to need a good sharp knife. Had I not had that little dragonfly on me today what was a minor (though painful) annoyance would have been the end of my fishing and a trip to the ER. So thanks spyderco. I have only had the dragonfly for a day but I'm pretty happy so far! ;-).
Hi all, I am going to tell u about my day and it might sound a little hard to believe, but this is exactly how it went down. I have been waiting anxiously for my new dragonfly salt to arrive and I finally got it yesterday. I am pleased with the knife and it came from the factory with a really sharp edge! I hung it on my neck cord and got my fishing gear ready for the next morning.
So, I get up this morning and load up my kayak and take off for the point. Here's where it gets weird...About mid morning I hook into a 4-5 pound needle fish...and he's PISSED! Mid fight, he turned towards the boat and jumped and hit me right in the head! Hard! Seriously, REALLY HARD!! He was moving super fast! Cut me with his teeth! But it gets worse! The treble hook on the 6" rapala in his mouth buried itself DEEP in the side of my head! So now I've got a hook stuck in my scalp thats also connected to a 5 pound pissed off razor toothed fish thats flopping around...violently! Lol, I know this must sound made up...even I'm having trouble believing it! I'm telling you, this actually happened! The guys on the charter boat next to me saw the whole thing!!
So luckily for me, after just a few seconds, the needle fish dislodges the lure from his mouth and swims away. Now im sitting in my kayak with a treble hook stuck in my head! As i said, there was a charter boat fishing the same point and they saw what happened. I paddled over to them and they had me get on their boat so they could help me. Now, I forgot to mention that I was wearing a mesh baseball hat and the hook went through it before going into my skin. So the hat is hooked to my head! Ok, here's where spidie comes to the rescue...the captain pulls out a bait knife and starts sawing on the hat to cut it away, because he can't get to the hook with the hat there. After a couple of minutes he gets frustrated (actually he was kind of freaking out a bit...I kept having to tell him to relax) and said he can't cut the hat away and I should go in and go to the hospital. I pulled the little spyderco off my neck and handed it to him! Lmfao, the funny part is, right then I wasn't worried about the hook in my head! All I was thinking was, "man, this guys gonna crap his pants when he sees how sharp my knife is! He's gonna be so jealous!" Hahaha.
So, about 3 seconds later the hat is gone! The dragonfly ate it like it wasn't even there. The guy grabbed the hook with some pliers and pushed it the rest of the way through my scalp and then snipped the barb off. Problem solved and I went back to fishing. Actually scored some really nice spanish mackerel after that. The moral of this story is you just never know when youre going to need a good sharp knife. Had I not had that little dragonfly on me today what was a minor (though painful) annoyance would have been the end of my fishing and a trip to the ER. So thanks spyderco. I have only had the dragonfly for a day but I'm pretty happy so far! ;-).
