Pulling Hooks - Good to be Prepared

[Hocfish]

Was fishing yesterday with my 10-yr old son on Sacandaga Lake.  He was unhooking a smallmouth, and the fish slipped out of his grasp and a treble hook was imbedded in his hand.  I never had to deal with this before, and it looked pretty bad. Luckily I was prepared, and had an emergency hook removal kit that I received as a gift several years ago.  I read the instructions, put the loop over the hook, pushed down on the hook eye, and gave a tug.  The hook came right out. 

I was proud of my son, who did not panic and handled it well.  After the hook was out we went back to fishing.  I was glad that I was prepared, otherwise we would have been off the water and into the emergency room for a 2-second tug with a loop of mono.

[esox v]

 It's quick and painless. I've never purchased a kit but with a short piece of line I have removed many hooks from people over the years.

[Raquettedacker]

I had to do it to myself once.. No one around to help... Cut the line off about a foot long and drove home with the hook still in...  Got home put the tag end in the vice, put the loop around the hook, got every thing lined up and tight and yanked... Came right out....

[kchamp]

been there before it doesn`t hurt coming out unless you use pliers

[rgfixit]

We've all buried hooks in various body parts. I stuck a treble attached to a rattle trap...attached to a pike, in the meat along side of my thumbnail. Had to beat the pike to death with a stick and unhook him. I had to push the hook through and cut it off. No fun, but I ate the pike

RG

[Hocfish]

True story.  When I was a kid (30 yrs ago) my friend and I were fishing for bass and wet wading the shallows in  our bathing suits.  He was using a Johnson silver minnow, and had it snagged in a branch.  He started backing up with a hand clamped on the spool...and twang...the lure shot back and snagged him right in the sack.  We both dropped to the ground, him crying and me laughing.  Regardless, he got that hook out himself. 

Seems like it was only yesterday...

[zaphod4]

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.Ouch,ouch,ouch.

[walleye1]

True story.  When I was a kid (30 yrs ago) my friend and I were fishing for bass and wet wading the shallows in  our bathing suits.  He was using a Johnson silver minnow, and had it snagged in a branch.  He started backing up with a hand clamped on the spool...and twang...the lure shot back and snagged him right in the sack.  We both dropped to the ground, him crying and me laughing.  Regardless, he got that hook out himself. 

Seems like it was only yesterday...

That hurt just reading it!!

[burtbomber]

caught my buddy in the eye lid a few years ago on my backcast and ripped his eyelid clean off....went to the emergency room and they had a plastic surgeon look him over and it was decided that the only solution would be to fashion him a new eyelid out of thin, elastic peice of skin....so they took a small patch from you know where and made him a new eyelid....worked out great...only problem is now he is cockeyed   .  a real story for you...stuck a crawdad floater into my face once after it came flying back me while tugging off of cattails...put two hooks clean into my cheek...had to have an old guy with rusty pliers cut the lure off because i refused to go to the hospital with it hanging off my face...they had to cut both hooks and then continue to push it thru my cheekto get it out...  that sucked!

[Lake Raker]

I read this artical a few weeks ago on how to remove a deep hook in a fishes gullet. On our walleye trip to the Gouin Res. last week I tried it on a small perch(blue actually) and it worked great, my father and I used it at least two more times during thre trip. I recommend reading it and trying it, probably saved three fish we didn't want to harvest in one week.

http://www.in-fisherman.com/content/through-gill-hook-removal

[spoon-n-eye]

caught my buddy in the eye lid a few years ago on my backcast and ripped his eyelid clean off....went to the emergency room and they had a plastic surgeon look him over and it was decided that the only solution would be to fashion him a new eyelid out of thin, elastic peice of skin....so they took a small patch from you know where and made him a new eyelid....worked out great...only problem is now he is cockeyed   .  a real story for you...stuck a crawdad floater into my face once after it came flying back me while tugging off of cattails...put two hooks clean into my cheek...had to have an old guy with rusty pliers cut the lure off because i refused to go to the hospital with it hanging off my face...they had to cut both hooks and then continue to push it thru my cheekto get it out...  that sucked!

To all readers, this is exactly why sunglasses are not just for sunny days..............

[burtbomber]

Is that why your tag name is spoon in eye?   that must have hurt

[JRSwillow]

i wish i had that when that happend to me  in my finger,the hooks were in my finger, so i pushed them the through the rest of the way so that the barb was out of finger  then i cut the barbs out and slipped right out