Oh I've enjoyed a few hookings. First time removing a pike and the trailing treble hooks buried in my finger. Our wire cutters were too thick to cut where we needed. There was no pushing it through barb side. So we fished a few more hours and when I got too light headed a couple of us floated down river for an hour then drove to an urgent care center in Upper Peninsula of Michigan wherein the medical folk did their magic. The tetanus shot hurt way worse than the hooking.

I figured there were a lot of fishing folk on this forum and this is pretty common, would be good to swap stories and removal techniques. It wasn't about cool or funny just about how we've been hooked.

The mods can remove it if they feel it is too squeamish or inappropriate somehow.