From a recent post on the Wisconsin Fly Fishing Board:
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"...Having never had a hook in my hand that deep, I soon realized just how
effective a barb can be. I tugged and pulled, but no avail. I then
realized I had the same fly in my box, so I cut the line, left the fly in
my thumb and fished for another hour or so before I had to leave. I had
to leave the water to get my kids picked up and to the dentist, something
that in the morning, I viewed as an intrusion. However, I began thinking
novacaine. I stopped at the well-known meat market nearby for some wild
rice brats and thick cut bacon for the mother's day breakfast in bed
plans, and oatmeal-raisin cookies for the drive home, freaked the lady
out at the counter who saw the fly still in my thumb and I was off.
Our family dentist is great and he was gracious enough, after checking the
rugrats, to help out with a little novacaine. After the thumb was
thoroughly numbed, I was able to push down on the eye of the hook and back
the hook out. I wasn’t able to back it out unless I pushed down quite
steadily and forcefully on the eye. I have read about the other way
involving pushing the hook through the skin past the barb, then cutting
the hook and pulling it through. That would have been the next option,
but fortunately didn’t need it. I didn’t feel ready to push the hook
through the skin past the barb and cut it.
Great way to start off the season…"
You can't let a little hook in your thumb stop you from fishing.
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