hey guys,<br /> me and a guy from work and his wife went out on his boat fishen this weekend. He has not yet mastered bouncing monkey style yet and his wife asked him to take a saltwater sail cat off her hook. i told him to put the vulcan death grip on it first before he took the hook out, but who am i but and old shoafin redneck. well he tried to grab the hook with a realy short pair of needle nose pliers. and just as i said would happen he got juked. and good to. the top spike drove home right up the long part of his thumb from first knuckel to the second scrapen bone all the way. the fish started floppen and he was screemen at his wife. she did'nt know what to do so she just started howlen ( kinda like an old lucy and ricky episoad). now how wroung would it be for me to have quoated my wife and said "told ya so dumba$$"( wright or wroung i did anyway )well of coarse the barb did not just let go, we all know that, so here we are out in the gulf, fish floppen,fisherman floppen,wife hoppen, boat a rocken, and in less than two minutes we were headed back for the docken with very little talken except for the word f....... well yall get the point. it was one for the books. a sail cat barb sunk to the bone up my thumb or a bomer long A to the jewles........ well i guess i'd have to pick the barb, but only by a nose on the last lap. it did come out. took a little meat with it. sure did look a site painful. can't say if his wife will go fishing with him again. he proubly has a few mental scares to carry arround. on the way home i told him to look at the bright side.... it did'nt rain. i won't repeat his reply. he said that it was realy hurten, and i told him that i would call him in about four hours to see if it was still hurten (ha,ha,haw ). he won't be hitchen any rides for a while. he realy screwed the pooch on this one. anybody got any good catfish wound healing gung fu tips i can pass on to the poor lad before his arm falls off?<br /> derwood 