Only time haven't had line trick work a jm d knew better than to try it was when my uncle got hooked by cousin with a little George while we were catching schooling white bass. Not that bad location. The bridge of the nose. Yes right under where his sunglasses were between his eyes.

You need a bigger boat

If we fish together Ken I'm thinking we both need to use barbless and weedless hooks.

I pulled quite a few out of folks and myself over the years. Only problem was a kid (16) out in a John boat. Had 2 of the front hooks of a 6A Bomber in ring finger and pointer finger. Hard to cut them and leave enough hook to wrap.

Try these.
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I like to use an eight foot leader on my C-rigs....

What is that, a Z - Boss 20?

Well I was by myself and trying to hold the eye of the hook down with my index finger next to my thumb that had the hook buried in it, I actually yanked the hook all the way through the thumb and partially through the middle finger, thank goodness it did not bury the hook into it, I would have had two fingers attached with a big hook, I have another hook story that happened last year, will tell it another time.

Was changing hooks out on an Ish Monroe hardbody swimbait when I buried a treble in my finger. Asked my roommate at the time if he had ever done the line trick. He said no and then after I quickly taught him kinda backed out. This hook was deep so I didn�t blame him. Tried to do it myself and had no luck. Ended up in the ER, but let�s face it, this isn�t an emergency. Here I am with a 6 inch bait hanging off my hand and I have to wait. Lo and behold there�s a fish tank in the Presbyterian Dallas ER. I walk over and start waving my hand in front of the tank and fish start following it. This little Hispanic girl, 3 maybe 4, tugs on her dads shirt and says �Papi. Papi. Hay un pescado en su dedo.� I know enough broken Spanish to realize what she has said and trying not to cry laughing. Ended up taking almost half an hour to get the hook out. X ray showed it was damn near touching bone.

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It's never fun doing it by yourself. I'll bet you a blackened catfish dinner I could have jerked it out with the string trick and had you back to fishing in 2 mins.

I bet Timmy Horton swapped out the bait stuck in his hand before they snapped the pic so nobody would know what he was throwing!!

Oh I have done it a few times, this time was a lot more difficult because of where the hook was and the fact that I was alone, that was two weeks ago today about this time of the morning, thumb still a little sore. How about I just buy you that catfish dinner and skip the hook part, lol.