Alaska anglers get hooked along with salmon

August 20, 2009 at 7:43 am

From the Juneau Daily News Aug 11, 2009

KENAI, Alaska (AP) — Salmon aren’t alone in being snagged during this busy summer fishing season in Alaska. Anglers get the hook, too.

Monica Musgrove, a nurse at Central Peninsula Hospital in Soldotna, says emergency room staff have removed 62 hooks from patients since May — one from somebody’s eyelid, and another from a nose.

And it’s likely that many more went to other hospitals or took them out themselves.

Musgrove notes that the hospital also sees injuries related to weights — such as when an angler catches a hook on the bottom, jerks backward to free it, and winds up getting smacked in the face by a split-shot or sinker.

She says many of the injuries occur at the overcrowded Russian River, especially when sockeye are running.
(Peninsula Clarion)

Thanks for passing along Adam.

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