How To Remove Chubby Darter From Finger

[jjohnson5150]

Buried one of the treble hooks past the barb in one of my fingers last night, so I thought I'd pass along some suggestions. Doh!

1) Find pliers

2) Grab on tight

3) Close eyes

4) Pull quick & hard

5) Don't yell too loud to scare away fish.

[dairyman]

been there done that-------

[Lost Cause]

always a good time. when I was younger I was fishing with a freind in a little 14ft boat and we were casting spinnerbaits and on his when bringing it back to cast he buried the hook in my forehead and then ripped it straight out on the cast.

[Ringtailhunter]

I remember years ago the hospital in Crosby had a display with all the hooks and lures taken out of people in the waiting room. I wonder if they still have it?

[JosMN]

Been there a few times when I was a young pup. Once casting a rapala off the dock at the age of 5, got it right threw the ear. Dad did the Al Linder trick to get that one out. The other one I was orginizing my tacklebox, around the same age. Got a rapala stuck in the carpet, tried pulling it out and burried a hook threw the tip of my find and threw the nail. Had to go to the Park Rapids ER for that one.

[pathogen]

When I was 5 years old I was whipping around my dad's flyrod on the end of the dock, didn't hear him coming up behind me and the small 'bug' caught him squarely in one nostril. Pretty funny now, he wasn't laughing then.

[wdgold]

Father-in-law thought it was cool to have a musky bait hanging from the the rear view mirror. Son and I were with him one day boating, and when he was backing down to get the boat he suddenly stopped and got out with that bait hanging from his arm.

[jjohnson5150]

Good stuff. lol.

[RiverFish]

Buried one of the treble hooks past the barb in one of my fingers last night, so I thought I'd pass along some suggestions. Doh!

1) Find pliers

2) Grab on tight

3) Close eyes

4) Pull quick & hard

5) Don't yell too loud to scare away fish.

I think MDs don't recommend this approach, can cause more damage. You should push the hook/barb all the way through. Clip off barb, then pull hook out. I am sure easier said than done.

Any hooks in the eye should be immediately taken to the Emergency Department.

Thankfully I have never had to deal with this situation, knock on wood.

[jjohnson5150]

Cutting off the hook at barb was not an option since it was buried in my finger underneath the nail. Mother of all things sacred, that was a nightmare. Lol. It was on the finger I needed to clean the fish too.

[CJH]

Pike slipped out of my hand while trying to remove a Rapala, and I got two of the three hooks of a treble in the meat between my thumb and forefinger. Not a fun time.

[RiverFish]

Cutting off the hook at barb was not an option since it was buried in my finger underneath the nail. Mother of all things sacred, that was a nightmare. Lol. It was on the finger I needed to clean the fish too.

OUCH!