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I saw this on BassFan and then went to You Tube for the link.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WOGXkJazJM

ebond,  I had to do the same thing with a Luckycraft Sammy.  A small lgmouth had flipped out of my hand and the other treble hooked the underneath part of my forearm.  The fish was dangling there!!!!!  It wasn't easy but I got the fish unhooked.  One of the two barbs I got backed out, but the other was too deep.  I had to run the point up through the skin.  Geesh I couldn't believe how difficult it was to punch it back through.  Tough rubbery was a good description.  Jeff

Here is more information on hook removal.  The string-yank method seems to be the best.  From what I have seen it works best with help from someone.

http://www.aafp.org/afp/20010601/2231.html

Cy

Quote from: Cfruel on June 17, 2008, 01:25:35 PM
Here is more information on hook removal.  The string-yank method seems to be the best.  From what I have seen it works best with help from someone.

http://www.aafp.org/afp/20010601/2231.html

Cy

I've used this method twice and it really works! Once several years back I was fishing on the back of a buddies boat in a tournament on Pontiac Lake. I drove a treble hook in my thumb down to the bone. He showed me how to set up the line and told me on a count of three he would give it a yank as I held the treble eye down. He yanked on 2 and out it came. Another time I was alone and had to do it myself. It took a couple of trys :o but I got it.

Saw that on an episode of Bill Dance Outdoors, imagine that. He got a Spence Scout buried in his hand when a fish threw it while he was trying to lip it. Poor guy is a walking disaster.