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Earlier this year, Thomas Rhett and his family took a trip out to Colorado where they did a ton of fly fishing. At one point during the trip, Thomas chronicled his bloody mishap of hooking himself in the back of the leg with a fly fishing hook on social media. We asked Thomas how it happened, and he said, “Well, I’d had three or four Miller Lights, let’s just preface it with that. And I was trying to cast into the wind, and I’m not a super-experienced fly fisherman and so when I casted back and went forward, the wind took it and just whipped it right into the back of my leg.”
Fortunately, his wife Lauren is a registered nurse, so Thomas says, “I started limping over to my wife and I was like, ‘So, what do I need to do?’ She’s like, ‘You’re gonna have to push it through the other side.’ And I was like, ‘This is gonna be terrible.’ But thank you for Miller Lite because I think it would have been a lot more painful without it.”
When Thomas hooked himself he actually thought it might have been karma or payback, because he says, “My grandfather was the one that taught me how to fish, and there was one time when I was about nine years old that I slung my rod back and I hooked him right in the neck with a treble hook. I watched a doctor pull it out, and so when I hooked myself right in the back of the leg, I looked at the sky and said, ‘God, I deserve every bit of this.’”
Don’t miss Thomas and Lauren hosting the CMA Country Christmas special tonight (11/30) at 9pm ET/8pm CT on ABC. Their three little girls – Willa, Ada and Lennon will also be making a guest appearance during the show.
Thomas Rhett – fishing hook in leg :38
“Well, I’d had three or four Miller Lights, let’s just preface it with that. And I was trying to cast into the wind, and I’m not a super-experienced fly fisherman and so when I casted back and went forward, the wind took it and just whipped it right into the back of my leg. And I started limping over to my wife and I was like, ‘So what do I need to do?’ She’s like, ‘You’re gonna have to push it through the other side.’ And I was like, ‘This is gonna be terrible.’ But thank you for Miller Lite because I think it would have been a lot more painful without it. I honestly think it’s payback cause my grandfather was the one that taught me how to fish – and there was one time when I was about nine years old that I slung my rod back and I hooked him right in the neck with a treble hook. I watched a doctor pull it out, and so when I hooked myself right in the back of the leg, I looked at the sky and said, ‘God, I deserve every bit of this.’”