I was thinking about this deal and recalled a bad deal back in my highschool days. Me and a buddy decided to float the Tamarac and pitch for northerns, simple enough right? Well we laid out how we would cast in that small boat to prevent hooking each other and even talked about how bad it would be to get hooked. Sure enough one of us did; from a tree limb catching the end of a spare rod hanging over the edge of the boat and flinging a Rap directly into the meat of his ear from behind. Just goes to show how easily it can happen.
It was my first of many hook removals and ever since I make sure to have something in the boat or tackle boxes to cut hooks.