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I was in our cluttered garage the other night to get a coat hanger and in reachin over some stuff, managed to yank a sizable hook on a mackerel rig in back of my little finger right above the first joint...Ouch. It went in up to the middle of the curve and past the barb a little less than a quarter inch. Dumb, Dumb, Dumb...
The first thing I did was cut the hook off the line. I didn't want to excite Wat'ser name, so I quickly tried to push it on through, intending on cutting it above the barb. Not to happen, man that hurts .
I called her to get a razor blade and to assist in the extraction...(and yeah, she got excited just like I thought she would.) I held the hook up and she cut along the side of it, exposing the barb and allowing me to back it out....It wasn't bad as I would have thought. Pushing it on through is, in my opinion, easier said than done.
Just curious if any of y'all have experienced being hooked and what you did..

I've done it all to often I first try and push it through, failing that leaves just three choices. Straiten the hook as best I can and jerk it out, if not to deep, cut it out, or go see the doc and let him cut it out. Most times it is a straiten and jerk procedure It helps if you have a non-squeamish person jerk it while you secure the body part

If ya really want some fun, try doing it with 2 hooks on a treble from a stretch 25 at once. Just relax, go get . Then enjoy learning to be a surgeon.

Like someone else said here : Mistakes are wonderful learning experiences.

Hooked

I guess you could call two of mine a double hookup first one last year was a stretch 30 with a 31 inch Spanish on one treble and the other was through my thumb nail the last one of the year was an 11 1/2 inch Bass on a Rattlin Rouge and my thumb on another of the trebles "had ta get my nephew ta yank that one out"

Well, I've been hooked but this bite story is better.

A while back I was pier fishing on the East Coast, and the blues were running. I grew up as a "pier rat" in South Florida, and some of you may be familiar with what it is like when fish are running and a frenzy seems to take over the anglers. They all start casting lures and generally going nuts.

Well, I was catching blues on 10 lb spinning one after the other, with a mack every now and then. There were fish flopping all over the pier and people were really into it. As I went to unhook a blue, (after many in the cooler) I got a little careless and reached down a tad close to his mouth. He chomped down on my thumb, and wouldn't let go. My thumb was about a full joint into that mouth, and it hurt like heck. I started yelling for somebody to help me, but no one would pay attention. They were casting, fighting fish, and reeling them in with abandon.

Blood was all over the place and I tried to pry open the fish's mouth with pliers, but he wouldn't let go. Eventually, I had to cut his head off with my left hand (right thumb still in the mouth) and then I could work open the jaws. Got it out, and I couldn't believe the blood. I took off my shirt and cut a bandage, wrapped it around the thumb, and got back into the game. Fish were still biting, and there was something cool about fishing with a bloody bandage on my hand, dripping down and mixing with fish on the deck. Kinda fair to the fish, I suppose!

By the way, grouper and a stretch are deadly. Try gaffing the fish in the mouth with a hand gaff to control the bugger, so they won't flop and hook you. I have never had to go to the doctor to get one out, but came mighty close. I now carry a small pair of bolt cutters to clip the hook off if need be, because that helps.

EJ

Had that to happen to me at Aucilla River once upon a time. My son and I were fishing right below the island with about 20 other boats...pulling in speckled trout every cast with mirrorlures. As you know they are 3 hook lures..and one of the trout threw the lure just as he came into the boat. The lure landed right below my chin, burried up to the curve in my neck.
My son is a nurse...had some surgury tools with him. We cut off the hook with bolt cutters..but it was still buried in my neck. No sweat...just push it on through. Skin is tougher that you can imagine. Couldn't do it. We fooled around 20-25 minutes trying to get the hook out. You couldn't back it out. Finally my son Dixie Reb took plires and pushed it on through my neck skin. Hurt like ---l too....but it worked.
Went back to fishing and only got 2-3 before they quit biting.

I've only had 1 hook stuck in me, and my wife pulled while I cut around the barb and got that one out.

But I do have an interesting "HOOKED" story.

There was a young gentleman bass fishing on lake talquin. He was in a small boat, by himself. As we got fairly close to him, I noticed he stayed bent over in his seat. When we were close enough, he yelled for help. Seems he had caught a bass on a 3 hook Bang-O-Lure. He hoisted the fish into the floor of the boat. He said the fish was flouncing, and he reached down to grab it. One of the hooke stuck in his right hand. In an effort to hold the fish still, he stepped on the fish. Did I mention he was bare footed? With one hand and 1 foot hooked, he used the other hand to try to remove the fish. You guessed it. He was indeed bent over, with both hands and a foot hooked, as well as the fish. I cut the hooks, but he wouldn't let me pull them out.

I witnessed FishMasterson's dog wad herself up in one of my Super Spooks. First the eyebrow, then paw stuck to the eyebrow, then an ear got hooked in there as well. I always hook my lures on the back side of the reel. Now I know why he hooks his way up the rod!
Not funny at the time, but worth a laugh now.

There is a method that I've used (just once). When my oldest son was small he had stuck a bettle spin in his pocket. Yeah... he was running around and the next thing we knew he was hooked in the leg. We managed to cut the end out of the pocket (lucky he had on shorts). Once the hook was exposed, I took a piece of mono and looped it around the shank at the skin where it went in. Then when you pull back on the mono it creates a gap around the barb and the hook can be reversed out. It worked for me.

Sir reel said the magic words. Loop of mono. See "String-Yank Technique":
http://www.aafp.org/afp/20010601/2231.html

I have heard from a first-hand witness to the procedure in both instances that this technique also works on large circle hooks and large double hooks when both points are buried.

On me, I use a variation of the "String-Yank Technique" commonly known as the "Pliers-Yank Technique," but you want to try to have the direction of yank as close as possible, opposite the direction the hook went in.

The article on the link left out the part about cussin'. Cussin' is a mandatory part of the procedure on this. Foul enough language kills infection.

I used to Bass fish a lot, back in Bama. Me and a couple of buddie's were at a private pond catching bunches of bass. I have a 1 lb er that I lipped out of the water. Yep you guess it he flipped his tail and straight into the meaty part of a palm went the hook. Way too deep to pull out. So I told the boys to take me to shore. The old farmer , whose pond it was came by and told us to push it out. So I asked for something to bite on and let them push it through. When they had removed to hook the Farmer came over with a tin of Kersocine. He said pour this over the hole and you'll keep it clean and probley not even be sore. I was a little fearfull but ya gotta trust an old farmer that has lived too far from a hospitol all his life. He was right. It never got infected and even better the next day There was absolutly no soreness. Just thought I give yall an old farmers tip. Take note it was kerosine not gasoline. Just want to make that clear.

DTK speaks the truth My Grandfather (who was also a farmer living a long way from a doctor or vet) believed in using kerosene as you made reference to. He wrapped one of my fingers in a wrag soaked in kerosene after getting it caught in some gears I was playing with. My mother didn't think much of the treatment but it worked. Another story he use to tell me to emphaise the importance of using due care with guns was his account about shooting himself in the finger with a 22 rifle. He had an old (stevens favorite) single shot lever action falling block with a sure enough hair trigger (I learned to shoot with it) He was a youngster living at home and was about to shoot a red bird for bait in one of the traps he was running. The rifle was cocked, he noticed some mud on the front sight, right hand finger on the trigger, left hand moved to wipe the mud off the sight.... movement of the rifle it went off, bullet goes through left index finger without hitting bone. He makes it to the house and his Dad carries him to an old Vet a few miles away. The Vet takes a probe of some sort, puts a rag soaked in kerosene on the probe, sticks it in one side and pushes it through the bullet hole to clean out the powder residue and clean the wound. Gramps always said that was the first time he every had any trouble control'n his blader