As a few of you know, I was on an extended... well... adventure. I'm back to Oklahoma now for a little while, but not for long as the state of Wyoming is calling my name. Anyhow, I've been doing quite a bit of fishing since my return. We were at Lake Texoma on the Texas/Oklahoma border catching Stripers on topwater, when my dad's friend had a fish come off the hook as he lifted it into the boat. Two of the three hooks on the treble were set into his hand. This works on any hook no matter what part of your body it's hooked in. My dad has done this numerous times and it's quick, safe and extremely effective. Watch the video... Get the hook out!
I'll take that over my dad's method. The bastard missed a hookset with a plastic worm and I got a hook in the hand. He pushed it through, cut off the barb and pulled it back out.
Last year while trout fishing I was attempting to remove a nice brownie of my 2" Yo-Zuri Pins Minnow and he thrashed and stuck me in the finger... past the barb... I got the hook out and on my next cast I caught another brown and the same thing happened except this time, the hook went in the crease on the side of my big thumb's nail and burried as deep as possible. I couldn't push the hook through so I had to bite down, hook my pliers on and pull as hard as I could.... one of the worst pains that I have felt but I got the hook out and made sure to keep it clean. "O God, don't tell me thats not gonna hurt... O Jesus" that is classic hahaha
When I was in sixth grade a got a spoon from a trouble hook stuck in the back of my head. Two hooks past the barb. Doctor had to numb and yank, lol. When I first started flyfishing I would practice my casts on our pond for hours. The hardest one was always the roll cast. I was out one afternoon with a far too large stonefly getting my roll's out pretty good. next cast..too much line, rolled that #4 hook right into the coin bag. Worst pain I have ever felt in my life
Had two hooks from a treble in the back of my head. Doctor just pushed through, cut off, and then pulled them out. If it ever happened again I would just do it myself.
I hooked 2 hooks of a treble on about a 4 inch topwater plug in the back of my dads head one time. Went to the er and the doc did the numb and yank thing.
Thats funny Dubbs because my oldest son called yesterday to find out how to get one out the end of my grandsons finger!
2 summers ago I got one barb of a treble from a Rapala Husky Jerk bait in my thumb. It wouldn't have been as big of a deal, but on the other hook there was a 3 pound bass
I have used that method quite a few times over the course of many years. It really is easy and even though the guy on the video said it hurt it is far easier than trying to pull it out any other way. The imortant part is to push the shank end of the hook down then pull the hook out away from the barb.
The only day I skipped school in highschool I went fishing with a bunch of numnuts that didn't know how to fish. Well we slipped onto a lake and started to catch a lot of bass. About an hour in the moron in the front tries to cast by coming straight back over his head with a rapala. Well, two of the four barb hooks from one of the main hooks on the rapala sunk completely through my right ear, the cartilage in the upper ear! OUCH OUCH OUCH. I guess someone was trying to teach me not to skip school. Getting it out was complete hell. I've also had hooks stuck underneath my fingers nails, with smallmouth bass dangling from the line--what fun! It makes you want to cut your own finger off.
The worst hook job was when I was a kid at about 12 years old. I used to take my bike down to the river and fish almost every day all summer. My beagle mix dog Sam always went with me. One day while I was making a long cast to try and get to the other side I accidentally hooked Sam in the back of the ear with a daredevil. That dog went nuts and somehow I was able to get the hook out without getting bitten.
Had the same deal with my old dog Skippy when I was a kid. Except it was with a double jointed L & S Mirrolure. Got her right on the nose. She started rolling down this steep creek bank, over and over, the line snapped and somehow... someway the hooks came out. We were a 1/4 mile from the house. She ran all the way home.
