I got two sets of treble hooks past the barbs in the small of my back once from a "backseat" fisherman that decided to move to the front deck and swing for the fence.
Couldn't see the hooks or reach it myself so I talked him through the string trick, works like a charm! Only thing is, you can't be timid when popping the hook out, hurts like #*%# if you try to be easy and you can't feel a thing when you pop it quick and hard.
And no, backseater has not been in my boat since

It wasnt long ago I was at the house rigging up a few rods for fishing. I dont remember how it happened but all of a sudden I felt my fingers were stuck together as if I had super glue on them. It was the middle finger and the one to the right of it. A treble hook buried in the middle one and was almost pastthe barb on the other. Igot that one out and tried to jerk the other one in my middle finger back out, but it wasnt moving and it hurt like #@!!. So I drank a few more beers and tried to push it on thru (like Ive heard so many times) HOLLY #@!$# THAT HURT !!!! It didnt budge. After fixing my kids dinner and posting on the TFF for help I finally decided to go the ER. What really hurt was when the doc had to go back in the same hole that the hook was in with his needle. He numbed it and came back later and used the same needle to cover up the barb and rolled it back out. He said more than likely it was hung on a nerve. (the nerves run up both sides of your fingers by the way) He said if I had jerked it hard enough or pushed it thru the nerve I would have had some bad damage to my hand. Just an FYI.

BE CAREFUL !

Years ago I was working nightshift at the emergency room at Perrin AFB. It was about 2:00AM and a guy walked in real calm. I was at the desk and asked if I could help him. He turned his head to the side and pointed to his ear. He had a Hellbender lure with one set of trebles stuck solidly INSIDE his ear with the other set snagged just above his eye. I called the doctor on duty and he had the guy all unstuck and cleaned up in about 10 minutes. This guy's fishing partner was telling us how it happened...how "Shorty" shouldn't have stood up in the boat like that! Chuck

Gotta tell ya, My husband is a saint, we were fishing Lewisville with three in the boat and throwing rooster tails, when mine imbedded in the back of his head. The other guy with us couldn't look and ran to the front of the boat. I couldn't push the tiny treble hook through, there was two that were in his head. I,,,,, took a deep breath and yanked real hard, and thank you God, they came out clean, and after pleading how very sorry I was and doing what ever I possibly could to make him feel better, he never said a cross word, just wanted to fish some more.

Well, I gotta tell my story now. My buddy and I were fishing Gibbons Creek back in 94-95 and catching some nice Pop-R fish, 4-6lbrs Well, I had a huge toilet bowl flush under my Pop-R and rared back and got nothing but air, that is, until it stuck in the cheek of my partners face Well, I quickly cut the snap ring and removed the lure. So here he is, a #4 treble hanging from his cheek and I say, Let's head for the Ramp so we can get you to the ER. He gives me this look like I'm braindead and starts casting again. We fish 2-3 hours more and then he went to the ER.

Here's the funny part...

He's sitting in the ER waiting on a Doc and there's this kid there with all the piercings and earrings and such. Finally the kid looks over at my bud and says...uhh..that's cool man, where'd you get it done?...

To this day if I pull out a Pop-R he gets nervous

The ultimate pain had to be suffered by a friend of mine who was fishing in one of our club tournaments. His partner using a Rat-L-Trap reared back and caught him in the lips with both sets of hooks. Buried all six of them. The pictures were enough to turn your stomach.

Interesting website Roadrunner....found this there, http://www.surviveoutdoors.com/reference/box_jellyfish.asp

What is it about Australia that every little thing you step on there will maim or kill you?

I took my brother out to the lake one day to teach him how to fish from an innertube. Things were going well, catching some fish and the sandies decide to come up. Here's were it all goes bad. My brother gets a little to close to me and then WHAM, RIP!!! I catch a set of rattle trap hooks in the top of the ear and then set into my head with the rip. He spins around mad at me and then realizes what has happened. He looked at me in horror and took off for the truck and dropped the rod in the lake. When I finnaly got the rod to the tube I just cut the line off and headed to where the truck was supposed to be. I sat on the bank for an hour waiting for the return. He was so scared I was going to kill him he went home. The good thing is that he told my dad where to find me. At the hospital the doc got out on of those saw for cutting off a cast and cut the hook out of my ear so he could get to the rest of it. Needless to say I wound up with 4 stitches in the ol' brain pan. To this day I haven't taken my brother fishing in a tube. I really don't want him in my boat, but he is my brother and he has kids. From that day though, he always looks before he casts.

Gonefission, try "hook string" without quotes in your search, string trick comes up with a few, just have to try different word combinations, the "trick" really does work, I've used it on myself and the basic theory is that you are pressing the eye of the hook so the barb can't snag your skin on the way out. Just give it a quick tug and it goes out the exact way it came in, it's seriously saved me a few times, once early in a tournament. Sure beats a trip to the hospital, what a pain.