Go to YouTube and see if you can find a video on using fishing line to remove hooks or google it. Best method ever for removing buried fish hooks. Get you a peice of small dowell rod and about 2 ft of Braided line. Tie one end to center and a loop knot in other end. Put that in your first aid kit. Let wife watch it also. Everyone needs to know how to do this. Under right circumstances you sometimes can do it on yourself. Go to grizzly jig and get a pair of those yellow plastic catfish grippers.