A couple of years ago I was fishing with Dave Stewart and I got a lesson on hook removal from him. Fortunately for me it was him with the hook in his finger. Last fall I was messing around the house with a crankbait and ended up sticking it in the living room carpet. Somehow in removing it from the carpet it ended up stuck in my finger all the way to the curve in the treble hook. My daughter who is an emergancy room nurse at University Hospital totally disagreed with how we were going to remove the hook , but like a good daughter she yanked it out using the fishing line method. Actually I think she enjoyed it a little too much. But really it didnt really hurt that much. I actually took a picture of the hook in my finger and videoed her yanking it out. Showed it to the guys at work and they thought it was the sickest thing they have ever seen. I really saw some humor in the whole thing. If your interested theres a pic of the bait in my finger at www.geocities.com/basshuntin.