Thread: Ouch ! hook in finger and ways to avoid it ? Please, pretty please !

Never tried it on them but I don't see why not. It is about the size of a pencil.

Anther reason I don’t use a lot of crankbait when bass fishing, too many horror stories and bass almost always shake their head. I still like jerkbait and top water sometime but with all the barbs crimped down and with fish gripper to help avoid putting my fingers where the hooks at.
I used cranks with crappie because I think they are small enough that I can hold their body, and with small forceps I could remove the hook easily. I got poked and bloody from crappie’s fin a couple times mostly from the one on two pelvic fins but that still way better than treble hook. Now I have a second thought about crankbait for crappie lol.

I use this jaw grip especially after getting hooked. I loop the strap around my wrist and it locks on the fish's jaw. Doing so paralyzes the fish like a thumb holding a bass's jaw at an angle. Fish stop moving completely.
A friend gave me this a few years ago and I found it works better than Berkley's jaw grip which is heavy and takes up a lot of room. It's around 8 bucks/ free s/h with Amazon prime.

That could be good for the stray catfish I end up with

Originally Posted by DockShootinJack

That could be good for the stray catfish I end up with

They seem to like me:


Here I used the Berkley jaw grabbers for this 7+ lb cat:


this sucka couldn't get loose:

I have wrestled some big ones out from under docks in the winter time.

That is one huge sucker

Originally Posted by DockShootinJack

That is one huge sucker

...with a face that only another sucka could love! (Give a new meaning to suck face.)