Grips?

I hate it when the damn deck turns into a nastly slop of fish slime and blood. I know I've been victim a couple of times, shoot one of the pier employees was standing right there when I fell one time. (Not that they apologized or helped me up.) After that I know I was a lot more careful letting fish blood and what not get everywhere. Went and bought a better pair of shoes too that same day.

Use what ever is comfortable to you to be safe handling fish. Its always best not to handle them when they are flopping loose. I like to get a foot on them or hold them down. Still sucks though, have had them go nuts coming over the rail and ended up with one gotcha hook in my hand and the other still in a spanish mack. Yowsers that hurt.

Our high school didn't leave a lot of room for electives. Four years of shop was required for every guy, and the girls took Home economics. Our first year of shop, the teacher showed us the finger of a guy that was cut off on one of the saws. They kept it in a baby food jar, preserved in formaldehyde. We all got the point, and graduated with all our digits intact. Imagine that happening today in school?

Picture is worth a thousand words.

Those drivers ed movies......

I just found an aluminum T-ball bat in the back corner of the closet. Maybe I'll start carrying it instead of my mallet. I have a couple of scars from mackerel from my deck hand days---don't need any more.

I had gotten the hose and wash the deck off when the big chew was going on (2 years this spring 194 that day)....after I almost busted me butt....sorry for the ones I splashed a little water on there shoes.....that gave me a look [img width=19 height=25]http://i47.tinypic.com/21erozs.gif[/img]

[quote author=Haywire link=topic=2810.msg25359#msg25359 date=1362538290]
I just found an aluminum T-ball bat in the back corner of the closet. Maybe I'll start carrying it instead of my mallet. I have a couple of scars from mackerel from my deck hand days---don't need any more.
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that adjust there attitude immediately....I picked up one of the smaller for fishing ones....need all the space i can get when I come

[quote author=Haywire link=topic=2810.msg25359#msg25359 date=1362538290]
I just found an aluminum T-ball bat in the back corner of the closet. Maybe I'll start carrying it instead of my mallet. I have a couple of scars from mackerel from my deck hand days---don't need any more.
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[size=12pt]I like my little bat, has a nice ring to it when ya hit 'em just right![/size] :banana:

in regards to the slick deck, even when there is no fish slime/blood/guts, be very careful around the water spigots.

[quote author=stik link=topic=2810.msg25365#msg25365 date=1362572815]
in regards to the slick deck, even when there is no fish slime/blood/guts, be very careful around the water spigots.
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Perfectly dry deck can be dangerous if your anything like me...

[quote author=Peaches link=topic=2810.msg25366#msg25366 date=1362573104]
[quote author=stik link=topic=2810.msg25365#msg25365 date=1362572815]
in regards to the slick deck, even when there is no fish slime/blood/guts, be very careful around the water spigots.
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Perfectly dry deck can be dangerous if your anything like me...
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Isn't that the truth. There could be a perfectly flat parking lot and I would face plant.