re: Never thought it'd be an 8" Redfish that got me.

I’ve been there a few times.



Saw this KVD video and it works really well. Pretty much painless and right back to fishing. I use a little stringer line instead of fishing line

I have taken probably 25 hooks out of people over the years. Palm side of the fingers is the absolute worst place to be hooked. Most people would not let me mess with those. Anywhere else is easy to remove. Just too many nerves there.


Hooked in the finger absolutely sucks.

[quote] Worst is when a fish is still on bait and going crazy. Was fishing TB and the bass were schooling. Catch one, he shakes, and the bottom treble not only caught one finger but two. Hard to remove by yourself having to hold the fish so no more damage can be done.

Three episodes in 60 years of fishing, all before I finished college. Yanked a 6” Rebel Minnow out of a willow tree and as it flew towards my face I stopped its flight with the back of my hand. Stuck against a bone, off to the old MidCity BRG ER. The look on the black lady’s face when I flipped my hand on the counter with that bait dangling was priceless.

One routine crankbait in the top of the thigh in the Basin, I pushed it through and clipped it and kept fishing (human skin is really tough when you’re young). My fishing buddy very nearly passed out.

The Mirrorlure stuck in my eye socket was a different matter. We were on a hot trout bite, so I told the guy that hooked me to clip it off and we kept fishing. My Dad’s fishing buddy that was a surgeon cut it out later, and commended me for finishing out the bite.