Some long time guides might say if you don't hook yourself when fishing, you're not fishing hard enough or haven't been fishing long enough. That might be an accurate observation, but what do you do if you hook yourself or your angling companion. Well...from our friends at Flylab, here's some of the best advice we've read on How to Remove a Fish Hook.

From the article. Image courtesy of Flylab.

If you fish long enough, you’re bound to get hooked.

Clearly, I must have fished long enough, because I’ve done it a number of times, and not always to myself. Once, I put a streamer in my wife’s neck. I won’t bother sharing the details of that story, however…

Not only does this video (and oldie, but goodie) tell us how to “remove a fish hook without a trip to the doctor,” but it actually shows a guy sticking himself in the leg with a barbed #2 hook and shooting the whole process at 1500 frames a second (super slow-mo video). As he says, “you won’t miss a thing.”

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Read the full article on Flylab.com.

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