The definitive help guide to getting rid of a stray hook

Before we go any more, let us begin with: Don't try this in your own home!

(Not too you would like to stab your flesh with barbed metal, but simply just in case ...)

Who knows when you can find stuck — hard — having a seafood hook. And when you need to do, we seem like you should know how you can take it off.

Kevin Newell of TotalFisherman.com is kind enough — and apparently tough enough — to stay themself with hooks to inform you techniques used in getting rid of them. Within this first, he demonstrates pushing the hook through and mashing lower or reducing the barb ripping the hook out and getting rid of the hook while using string method.

But — ouch! — the string method does not work. So he stays in another hook.

Disappointed using the results, Newell did another video concentrating on the string removal method, with better success.

"If you need to have a seafood hook from yourself, there's not really a good way,Inch stated Newell. "Get it done securely, get it done rapidly and obtain the wound disinfected as quickly as possible.Inch

Maybe you have were built with a painful hook experience? How have you obtain the hook out?

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Local guide Justin Hanold scores record-setting tournament win at Lake Havasu

Written by Kellen Ellis Wednesday, March 27, 2013

News - Freshwater Fishing News

Poway's Justin Hanold, a local bass fishing guide scored a big WON Bass Pro/Am tournament win at Lake Havasu on March 16th and 17th. Hanold weighed a two day limit totaling 46.97 pounds, anchored by a huge 5-fish limit on day 1 weighing 26.83 pounds. 

Hanold arrived in Lake Havasu City on Tuesday the 12th to begin a few days of pre-fish. With temperatures rising in the desert, new waves of bass were moving up to the shallows to spawn each day. Justin made an unorthodox decision, saying "I made up my mind early that I would not make a single cast during all four days of practice."

After four days of covering shoreline with his eyes fixed in the shallows, Hanold had over 280 "marks" (GPS waypoints) set, all holding the location of solid bedding bass (mostly smallmouth). "With what I was seeing, I had a feeling every competitor would have 15 pounds in the boat in the first hour of the tournament," he said. With as many fish as there were up spawning in the lake, Justin knew he would have to focus his efforts on finding largemouth bass, which are bigger and more plentiful in the Colorado River which feeds Havasu to the north. So Justin set his focus on the river on the last day of practice, and found enough quality fish to know thats where he'd attack during the competition. 

On day 1 Justin had caught his big fish of the day, a 7.06 pounder, a 6 pounder, and 3 fish around 4 pounds by 8 AM. Despite having a few more 5 pound quality fish marked in the river that would cull out those 4 pounders,  Justin made a wise decision to leave them alone and save them for the second day. So Justin spent the rest of day 1 back in the main lake, hopping around his marks and was able to cull all 3 of the 4 pounders, leading to his first day total of 26.83 pounds. 

On the second day of competition Justin ran right back up river to get those 5 pounders he saved the day before. Unfortunately, he arrived to find those fish gone, either caught the day before by other competitors, or just absent for whatever reason. That's not the way you want to start the second day of a tournament you're leading, but Justin kept grinding. 

Fortunately for Justin, there were plenty of bass still in the river, and he had lots of marks left to check. He ran around the river catching the rest of the quality marks he had without having to save anything, and by 9 AM had around 17 pounds. At that point, he decided to again hit the main lake and try to continue culling fish. "Finding fish [in the main lake] was hard, but I was able to cull several times by running-and-gunning," he said. 

Justin's running-and-gunning efforts yielded a limit on the second day weighing 20.14 pounds, giving him enough to win by a little more than 2.5 pounds over second place angler Clay Lippincott of Goodyear, AZ. All of Justin's fish were caught on white Berkley Jigs with Chigger Craw trailers. 

Justin set new WON Bass records for single-day and two-day totals, both being held previously by Hall of Famer Mike Folkestad. 

The win was worth $10,360 dollars in total, made up of cash prizes for 1st place, day 1 big stringer, and third biggest fish of the tournament. 

The fishing at Havasu was truly spectacular for this tournament, as evidenced by the fact that the last place pro angler, Ed Shaver in 47th place caught a two day limit of 10 bass weighing 27.95 pounds, nearly a 3 pound bass average. 

For more information on Justin Hanold, or to book a guide trip, visit his website at socalfishingadventures.com or give him a call at 858.254.9215.

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Books: &quot;Smart Guide to <b>Freshwater Fishing</b>&quot;

Canton, NY, Dec 20, 2012 — Freezing temperatures late last week didn't deter avid angler Mike Seymour from heading out for muskies on the St. Lawrence River. Seymour has been a licensed fishing guide in the North Country for over 25 years, and is a prolific outdoor writer.

He's sharing some of his knowledge in a new book. The Smart Guide to Freshwater Fishing covers everything from fishing terms, to trolling to the best fishing times. Todd Moe spoke with Captain Mike about his new book, and love of fishing.

Seymour enjoys fishing because it allows him to get outdoors, in the midst of nature. He releases about 90% of the fish he catches.

This time of the year Seymour fishes for muskies out of Morrisville, Ogdensburg and Massena. “We fish as long as we can get a boat in,” Seymour said. He didn’t catch a musky last week, but his son did.

The first part of Seymour's book teaches the reader about fishing, with sections for getting started; what gear to get, techniques, what baits to use (both artificial and live), where, how and when to find fish, how to release fish, how to handle fish, how to prepare fish to eat, ethics, rules and safety, and more.

Following that are sections on both fly fishing and ice fishing, along with an information section on the 50 most popular freshwater species in North America. “The book actually has a North American perspective. So that was a challenge for me—to present something in the book that people all over the United States and Canada might find useful for them,” Seymour explained.

“Fishing is just something everyone can do at some level, whether they’re just sitting on a dock, or for the guy who has the big boat. It's just something for everybody, and it gets everybody outdoors. No matter what your skill levels are, everyone can fish.”

Mike Seymour will sign copies of "The Smart Guide to Freshwater Fishing" at the Brewer Bookstore in Canton, from 1 - 3 pm on Saturday.

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