How to remove a fish hook from your finger

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How to remove a fish hook from your finger

• Fish and Wildlife
• Demonstration Project

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Three Methods to consider

• Push through and cutoff technique
• Removing a fish hook with a bit of string
  technique
• Fishing with barbless hooks

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Push through and cutoff technique

• Remove hook by using a needle nose pliers to
  advance hook through the tissue until the barb
  end of the hook penetrates through the skin at a
  separate location.

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Push through and cutoff technique

• Cutoff the barb end of the hook with a wire
  cutter.
• Remove the remainder of the hook by backing out
  through the entry site.
• Clean site

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Removing a fish hook with a bit of string

• Clean area prior to hook removal
• Tie a piece of string to the bend of the hook.
• Depress the shank of the hook to disengage the
  barb.

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Removing a hook with a bit of string

• While the shank is being depressed, the string is
  given a hard, sharp, decisive jerk in the
  direction in which the hook entered the skin.
• This extracts the hook along the path of the
  entry.
• Cleanse area.

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Fish using a barbless hook

• Remove barb from your hook.
• Purchase barbless hooks.
• Barbless hooks are required in many places
  throughout the US and Canada.