re: Not one of my finer moments as an angler

Been there, done that with the treble hook. Got a "sparkle tail" hung in my lower lip once on Douglas Lake in East Tennessee. (left myself wide open for all sparkle tail jokes, so have at it!) To make a long story short, had my buddy just push em on through, cut off the barb and back the trebles out of my lip. Yeah, it was back in the day and it involved too many Millers, right after sundown and couldn't see too good, and trying to bite the excess line off with my teeth after tying on a different color sparkletail. Buddy begged me to jump overboard so he could reel me in. Had to keep drinking Millers out of the side of my mouth for the next two days.