Fish Hook Removal

1) Remove hook from lure. 2) Double the fishing line and loop it around the hook, as close to the skin's surface as possible. 3) Hold onto both ends of the doubled line, wrapping them around your hand for a firm grip and holding the line parallel to the skinÕs surface in line with the hook. 4) With your other hand, press the eye of the hook down onto the surface of the skin and back toward the hook's bend, as if trying to back the hook out of the wound. 5) While pressing on the hook eye, yank the line sharply, parallel to the skin and in line with the hook, to snap the hook back out of the wound. 6) Apply antibiotic ointment, bandage wound and check to make sure tetanus shots are current.

If it’s a shallow puncture in your fingers, you might be able to remove the darned hook by yourself.

Here’s how:

  • 1. If the just the hook’s tip that punctured you and the barb’s still visible, get it out the way it got in.

  • 2. If the barb got in, then ice the area to numb it.

  • 3. Push the hook forward in the direction of the hook’s curve until the barb pokes out of the skin .

  • 4. Snip the barb off with a wire cutter.

  • 5. Now that the barb’s out, ease the rest out through the way it went in.

  • 6. Wash the area with soap and water. Apply an antiseptic and bandage it.

  • 7. If you haven’t had a tetanus shot for the past five years, better seek medical help.

     

    Needle cover method. (A) Advance an 18-gauge or larger-gauge needle along the fishhook until the needle opening covers the point. (B) The fishhook and needle are then removed at the same time.