A schoolboy got a fish hook stuck in his ear in a "bizarre" accident - during his first-ever trip.<br /><br />But Joel Doyle, 13, has not been put off - and is looking forward to going fishing again.<br /><br />The teen was out in Christchurch, Dorset when a friend cast his line backwards - and hooked the lure straight through his ear.<br /><br />Sister Lynsey Pooke, 27, and mum Lorraine Hanley, 58, rushed Joel to hospital with the hook and a plastic fish dangling from his head.<br /><br />The doctor had to “pierce” the “distressed” boy's ear and used pliers to remove the items.<br /><br />Lorraine, a social worker from Bournemouth, said: “This was Joel’s first day learning to fish.<br /><br />“He was very excited. I got this call and he was crying and screaming.<br /><br />“He said the hooks gone through my ear. I raced over.<br /><br />“The doctors had to push it straight through the ear as if piercing it. It is so bizarre.<br /><br />“He loves fishing. It hasn’t put him off at all.”<br /><br />Joel had been fishing with a school friend at Iford Old Bridge when the hook got caught in his ear on October.<br /><br />Sister Lynsey, a health care assistant, from Watford, London said: “The plastic fish was dangling out of his ear.<br /><br />“It was something from a comedy.”<br /><br />Lorraine added: “I said ‘were you trying to pierce your ear?’. He was very distressed.”<br /><br />Doctors managed to free the hook and plastic fish from Joel’s ear and gave him a tetanus shot to prevent an infection.<br /><br />Now Joel is back to normal - and has already been out fishing again.<br /><br />Lorraine said: “We’ve ordered him a fishing rod. It’s unbelievable. You’d have to see it to believe it. I’m going to get it framed.”
