What an idiot!

[Al Agnew]

I was telling a friend about my adventure getting a hook out of my finger on my solo trip a couple weeks ago, and he later sent me this link...

The guy's helper simply didn't do their job correctly.  You have to PUSH, hard, on the eye of the hook, pushing it directly toward the buried barb.  This opens up a channel for the barb to emerge, and also helps hold the eye of the hook down so that it doesn't slip out from under the helper's finger.  Instead, the helper just held the eye against the skin loosely.  Geez, if you're going to purposely mutilate yourself, you better know how to fix it!

 

[fishinwrench]

Once as a young angler I was throwing a Johnson Silver Minnow spoon with a twin tail pork strip on it.  After throwing it awhile with no bites I decided to change baits but didn't want to waste that pork strip so I was fighting to get it back off.  Well after some serious twisting and as much pressure as I could muster that thing finally let go, and for some reason that wicked hook with the insanely evil barb thrusted deeply and directly under my thumbnail. The salt on the pork immediately began to sting and then 1/2 second later the nerves under my thumbnail began to scream messages to my brain saying GET IT OUT NOW!!!!  

So I grabbed that Johnson spoon and ripped that sumbitch outa there in a panic.  It pulled a piece of tender meat out with it and then I had a 1/2 inch worm of bloody throbbing meat hanging from my thumb and the pain was indescribable.  

Since then I've suffered through and seen many accidental hookings and hook removals, and I always laugh because NONE OF THEM could ever be as painful as that one was.  

[DownStream]

There is no reason to make a bad situation worse. This guy is an idiot.

[David Unnerstall]

I have never had to remove a hook from a human (but I know that mentioning this will cause that to happen the next time out).  But I have had to remove hooks from a dog's lip.  That is when you know that dog trusts you.

[Flysmallie]

27 minutes ago, David Unnerstall said:

That is when you know that dog trusts you.

Or you have to remove one's foot from a long spring trap. He was not happy. 

[Mitch f]

I've seen this before, this guy is crazy. I love the fact that he has to use the pliers to put the small hook in!  it seems like he is shaking a bit.

[Phil Lilley]

One comment on the video:

"Ok, i followed your steps and put the fish hooks in my foot, whats next?"

Hilarious!!!!!

[bikehikefish]

I used the string method twice;  once on a kid at Bennett Springs, another time on my own son.  Pulls the hook out cleanly with very little pain.  It seems to be a better method than clipping the eye and pushing it through the skin.

But I could not get myself to watch this video.

 

 

[Terrierman]

On ‎9‎/‎7‎/‎2016 at 10:13 AM, David Unnerstall said:

I have never had to remove a hook from a human (but I know that mentioning this will cause that to happen the next time out).  But I have had to remove hooks from a dog's lip.  That is when you know that dog trusts you.

Same here.  Beagle came running up with a 1/2 oz jig with the pork frog that got her in trouble still attached hanging from her upper lip.  She hardly flinched when I yanked it out.