ouch !!

General Discussion
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had a surf with 6’ 2 120kg “kiricore” , him riding a mat , and myself also on a mat .

it was interesting seeing a big guy riding a mat .

for a change there was a bit more swell around too , so we took a couple of floggings !

nothing compared to young pascal [‘popeye’] , on his 9’ mal ,

who managed to

get a fish hook lodged in the top of his left foot [his back one?] while surfing the inside section near some fishos .

I hope you managed to get it out okay , mate , and that it is not infected .

cheers

ben

… please be careful around fishermen , people . [they usually find the best bank and gutters to set up on]

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imagine the story the fisherman had when he got home… lol.

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yeah

…it must be “foot month” , eh ?

so far , in december this year …

kiricore stood on a nail [heel] ,

i stood on some barbed wire [heel] ,

pascal caught a fish hook [top of the foot]

let’s hope if Ian [‘sandgroper’ / ‘zap’] surfs with us again soon , that HE manages to stay injury free eh ?!

[although , come to think of it …BOTH his feet are bleeding , ulcerated messes , following his first mat surf with flippers , without using booties or socks ?]

ben
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i’m so guilty of running through fishermans lines while riding a malibu. that get so agro when there fishing line gets cut by a 10" single fin…

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Hi Ben

Thanks, my foot is fine. No signs of infection, thank neptune.

You should have seen the old fisherman’s faces when I got “hooked”. They thought they’d finally caught the big one!

They were reeling in frantically, while I was in the shorebreak waving and shouting at them trying to tell them to stop pulling on the damn lines.

Haha!