If you happened to accidentally get a hook in your finger, have a friend take a fly line and place it under the bend of the hook. Grasp both sides of the fly line with one hand and at the same time put downward pressure on the eye of the hook with the other hand. While continuously applying downward pressure on the hook, yank on the fly line and the hook becomes free. Be sure to cleanse the wound site.

It is very important to always wear eye protection while fly-fishing. However, if ocular involvement occurs, you should promptly see an ophthalmologist. Another alternative for hook removal is going to the ER for removal of the hook by a doctor.
 

String-Yank Method

In this method use a long piece of fishing leader or monofilament line, loop it around the shank. 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.

This method is quick, simple and relatively painless, recently having an embedded hook, a friend was not close by, and so I used the perfection loop of one of leaders to loop it around the shank. I closed my eyes and on the count of three, yanked, it was relatively painless. I did clean applying Neosporin to my wound.

Do not attempt to remove a fishhook that is deeply embedded, lodged within a tendon or located near an eye or artery. See a doctor!

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