Fish hook removal... OUCH!

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!
 
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.
 
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
 
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!
 
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!
 
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.
 
Aiviq":17renni2 said:
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.
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Now THAT's good information. Thanks, I usually have some hypodermic needles on board to allow me to deflate the swim bladders of yellow eye (which we have to release here in WA). Now I have another reason to carry them.
 
anticipationpc":2zc12y5e said:
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!
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The hook removal procedure shown in the video and described by Jim C. is far and away the best way to remove a hook. The one step that was not pointed out which is VERY important. The eye of the hook must beheld down so it can not rotate. In the video simply holding the lure down, which is attached to the hook eye would keep the hook from rotating. I assume this was being done but was not shown. In the case of a smaller hook or fly, holding the eye down against the skin with your thumb while the barb is (yanked)out in the same direction it entered.
I've used this system many times in my 65 years of Alaskan sport fishing and guiding novice fisherman and woman.

Gary King
 
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
 
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
 
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.
 
When I was a kid and camping on lake Shasta, my father and I stopped into a sporting goods shop to buy a roostertail and the nice old guy managed to drive the hook down through his thumb nail as he pulled it off the display card. At least it was a nice new hook. My old man grabbed a pair of clippers out of the display ran the hook on through, clipped it off and then back out again.
I don't remember anything else about that trip and have never been the same. The fact is that every time I come near a hook I plan for the unexpected and so far so good.
 
Capital Sea":11vqktie said:
I don't remember anything else about that trip and have never been the same.
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A somewhat similar thing happened to me years ago.............I met Carol, got hooked and "have never been the same"......by the way, I'm certainly not complaining!!!!!... :love
 
when i was 12 my mom dropped me at a pond near my house so i could fish for some bass, she was gonna pick me up three hours later, first thing id did, put a trebble hook through my finger, i spent three hours with a hook in my finger but cought two trout in a pond i had no idea had trout in it, it was awsome, in the end i pushed it through and cut off the barb and pulled it back out
 
Capital Sea":li9noh7o said:
So what your saying Kevin is that when I was a little boy, I was a little girl.
Fine then.
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Capt Steve, I sure didn't come to that conclusion from what Kevin wrote. Seemed to me he was just relating and interesting incident related to this thread and I didn't take your reaction to someone Else's very painful incident as a 12 year old as anything other than normal. If I at the same age had seen some adult run a fish hook right through there nail and then its removal it would have definitely left an impression on me to avoid the same happening to me.

Haven't seen that much difference in reaction to painful incidences between the genders. If anything its the female that best adjust to pain and carries on. Believe how we let pain cause us to react to a situation has more to do with just how involved we are in it. If the pain isn't to great and a person is having a wonderful time or involved in an intense goal pain is fairly easy to ignore on the other hand if we're there just for the ride or observing the incident, whether its us or someone else who is injured, the reaction is more intense. Anyway that's the way it works for me.

I know for sure Jo-Lee is much better than I at dealing with pain so as to carry on with whatever we wish to do.

Jay
 
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