Unless you are talking about a rubber tired Hoe Scott the best thing you can do is drive right past that John Deere dealership then, heh heh. Ought to be a Cat dealer around somewhere??
I have used that same method of finger removing large hooks for years. It doesn't work so well on toothy fish like Northerns or Walleyes, but LMB benefit greatly from it as Shorty points out. My Dad has a small plastic hook remover from way back when that does the same thing, it is shaped like a pencil with a bobber on the end and it has a groove in it to follow the line down to the hook. I will see if I can find one, I think Netcraft carries them.
