Addition to "Hook Selection" thread

All about flies Fly Tying
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Under that thread there is a lot of talk about the benefits of a barbless hook when hooking yourself …or someone else.

Here’s something I’m sure many of you know but then again some of you might find useful.

If you or someone else is hooked with a barbed hook and the area of the body allows it…go ahead and rotate the hook point so it exits the skin again…snip off the barbed part of the hook and then rotate the “barbless” hook back out…[hope this is clear]…

I have done this more than once on friends [they still are] and they say they hardly felt it…requires, at best, a needle nose pliers with a wire cutting feature.

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Great tip–clear to me. My dad had one thru his upper lip and all I had to do was go and cut the point.

Bill

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Protecting my upper lip is the reason why I grew whiskers. :})
Ed