Guys, getting a hook out can be a simple process in most cases. A full time guide showed me this and claimed he's removed more than 100 hooks. I have removed several over the last few years and have had 3 removed from me, and it has worked in every case. It does take 2 people, the one hooked and one to get it out. If you're by yourself and hook yourself, find another fisherman to help you out.

Take a standard plastic worm hook and bend it straight. Mash down the barb down. Run the straightened hook with barb mashed along-side the the one caught you, right in the same hole to the depth of the one that caught you. Gently lift/separate the skin in the direction away from the barb of the hook that caught you. Then, just slip the hook that caught you out.

Believe me, it works and has you back to fishin' in just a couple of minutes and doesn't damage any more flesh like pushing the hook back through.