Painless Hook Removal

Sooner or later it's bound to happen to most anglers - a fish hook becomes embedded in your flesh. Hook removal can be extremely painful, unless you have the right solution on hand.

Ask your physician for a 3cc syringe containing 1 percent Xylocaine, a safe, local anesthetic. Inject the solution where the hook has entered the flesh, wait a few minutes, then carefully work the hook out. The hooked victim won't feel a thing.

-- Fishing tip from Catch of the Day * (Also a practice of our good friend Rease)

*Catch of the Day, published by Price Stern Sloan, Inc.