I was night fishing Long Beach Harbor last month with my oldest daughter (10). We got set up and I stepped down onto the rocks to retrieve a snag and ever more busted my a$$. I'm lucky I didn't end up in the emergency room or worse, with all the jagged edges and exposed rebar. Anyway, I got out with a bruised and cut ankle, a fairly severe gash on my hand and scraped up back. I shook it off and took care of the cut and decided to keep on fishing. I had given my daughter one of my rods with a 3/8oz. jig head with a Matrix Shad on it and told her to hurl it out and reel it slow for Flounder. I "thought" I was far enough away, when she reared back all the way to China and slung her cast sideways (like me). Long story short, she let go of the button too soon and that thing beamed me upside the head and it felt like Mike Tyson had hit me. Made an awful noise too! Sounded like a damn gunshot!!! Luckily the hook didn't get me, but I had a bad cut and a knot on my head, about an inch high! After I sat down for a little while, I decided it was time to go home, before I got killed. lol
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