Fish hook removal... OUCH!

Adeline · Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2009 6:27 pm Post subject: Fish hook removal... OUCH!

THIS IS GONNA HURT

Capn Jack · Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2009 6:38 pm Post subject: RE: OUCH !!

Been there done that. Cry

It's the best reason I've seen for "Barb-less" hooks. Crook

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Jack

colobear · Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2009 7:30 pm Post subject:

Its actually easier, but still painful, to push the hook through the skin so the barb is outside, then cut the barb off and withdraw the hook. Remember antiseptic!

rogerbum · Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2009 9:23 pm Post subject:

Also been there but unlike the hook in the video, mine was barbed and in the tip of the index finger. I wound up at the UW emergency room where they gave me a lot of local anesthetic injections and (after I insisted) cut the shank and pushed it out point first. Was one of the most painful things I've experienced. Barbless = good.

RJD Wannabe · Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2009 9:50 pm Post subject:

Why I carry Lidocaine and a syringe in my fishing box

Hunkydory · Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2009 9:56 pm Post subject:

Yes OUCH and then some!!! That photo brings back a little bit of bad and whole lot of good memories of a week long canoe trip I made with my youngest son on Yellowstone Lake just after his graduating from High School. We had camped for the night at the Promontory Point boat campsite when just before dark with a cast I buried two prongs of a three prong hook in my right cheek. Yellowstone Lake is a barbless hook fishing area, but it is legal to just crimp the barbs with pliers. Sure wished I had crimped them a lot better then I had. Found the skin on the face is much tougher then I ever dreamed it could be. Jayson pulled those those hooks way out there with no give. Finally He cut the hooks apart and that vibration I could feel right to my toes. He then tried to push them through as Roger described and though the skin seemed to stretch again in front of the point it wouldn't break through the skin. Ended up heating a knife tip and cutting them out. Found it very hard to hold still while he pulled and cut. What helped the most was taking my mind off it by videoing my face while Jayson did the job. Was a much better ending then spending the night with hooks in my face and then making the many mile run the next day across the lake to the lake hospital and was able to continue for several more days fishing, exploring and building wonderful memories.

Jay

matt_unique · Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2009 11:02 pm Post subject: Ouch

One time a buddy of mine kindly lodged his lure into my face as he tried to cast. I feel your pain...ouch yours looks deeper and more painful I'm sure.

Hit it with the antiseptic and make sure tetanus is up to date!

Socrateur · Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2009 11:06 pm Post subject:

Sorry, but this one is not worth the battery power for the video cam used to photograph it. I do like the Maker's Mark whisky, though.

anticipationpc · Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2009 11:32 pm Post subject:

I have been a Charter boat Captain for 30 years now. I have seen alot of hooks inbedded in hands, fingers, and even a face. There is a simple proceedure to remove the hook.
Take a 10" piece of heavy fishing line, loop it between the shank of the hook and where it meets the skin, twist the line 5-6 times, hold the line vertical to the hook shaft and close to the skin. Then with a quick hard yank jerk the hook out. The trick is to get the line as close as you can to the barb. Works every time!

Aiviq · Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2009 5:09 am Post subject:

A trick that has always worked for me requires a good size hypodermic needle (an 18 or 20 gauge, depending on the size of the hook). You slide the needle along the wound track along the inside of the hook and engage the lumen (opening) of the hypodermic needle onto the barb of the hook. With the barb covered by the lumen of the needle, you have basically made the hook barbless, and it can be backed out easily with the needle remaining engaged on the barb.

rogerbum · Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2009 7:59 am Post subject:

garyk · Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2009 12:23 pm Post subject: Fish hook removal... OUCH!

captd · Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 7:33 am Post subject:

To wet your imagination: Fishing out of Prince of Wales for halibut. I was using a double # 9 circle hooks. Top one on a slide. We were catching 20 to 30 pounders and turning them loose. Trying to detach one while hanging it over the side the slider hook swung around and hooked the end of my finger. The hook went in and came out the opposite side. the fish seen to that. The fish had to come off the first thing. One of us needed immediate relief. A #9 is thick enough where we could not cut the shank. With a lot of work we flattened the barb. Then did the jerk thing.

Having had tainted salmon on the hook as bait. We needed to sterlized the wound. My wife came up with the solution. Pour iodine in one hole so it comes out the other. WRONG! Like putting a blow torch to your finger. I suggested Hydrogen proxide thinking that wouldn't hurt WRONG again. We injected it with a hypodermic. That was as badas the iodine, but it went all the way through.
Painfull to remember.
captd

garyk · Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 12:18 pm Post subject: Fish hook removal... OUCH!

Captd,
Wow,
I've never had the need to try to remove a circle hook from any thing but a Halibut. My fishing buddy is good at it but I have a hell of a time getting one out of the fishes lip. I think that might be a good subject for the Brat's ......"How do you remove a circle hook, with out killing the fish"
We hooked a 100 lb plus Skate in the wing, didn't want to kill it , we had a hell of a time getting it out, the damn fish would not co-operate.

Gary

thataway · Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 6:40 pm Post subject:

In any afterward. I like Betadine or Hydrogen Peroxide.

Also consider how you will remove a fish hook if you are alone? I found that pushing on through and cutting off the barb has worked best for me when I had to remove a hook (generally small) when alone. It is hard to stabalize the hook, the skin and jerk on the string when alone. But this is a good technique when several people are available.