The longer you take, the more it hurts.Ĭlip the barb off the hook with a pair of snippers or a similar tool.
Try to be gentle and you'll discover it actually takes quite a bit of force to pop through. You can dull the pain by icing the area down first, but you'll probably still yell "Mommy!" Do this in a quick, fluid motion. Rotate the hook point up as you push it forward, so it pops back out through the surface of your skin - OUCH! It should now form a U with the point and shank exposed, and the bottom of the U under the skin. Now you're going to have to cause some additional pain on purpose.
Usually you can do this by slipping the hook's eye through a split-ring, but sometimes it requires cutting the eye off with snippers or cutting pliers. If the hook is attached to a lure, remove it so the lure's body doesn't get in your way or swing around and jerk the hook. Otherwise, you might give it an unintentional yank and cause additional pain. With the barb removed, back the hook out through bothĬut the hook free from the fishing line.
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