5 hours of waiting in the lovely emergency room of University Community Hospital and I am finally home. My dad is fine, he's enjoying the 18 stitches in his middle finger and another 9 on his index finger.

 

So what did he do, give the shark a right cross or something? Glad it's not worse.

 

pics or ban! Glad he 's ok.

+1 on the where did it happen. what was he doing etc...

 

whoa, we want info! glad hes ok!

 

He was at the Skyway Pier fishing with a buddy of his. He caught the shark which was about 3 feet long. The hook was stuck near the mouth of the shark but not close enough to be injured................that is if the shark didn't decide to fight back, turn his head and bite my dad's hand. Basically a freak accident. Didn't get any pics, but his hand is all bandaged and he has a finger splint on his middle finger. Should have the stitches out in 2 weeks. It was pretty ugly and bloody to say the least. The damage was so bad because of the natural reaction to pull his hand out of the shark's mouth. The cut on his middle finger was a solid 1.5" long.

 

Wow...tell you me killed the little F'er and made soup?