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Studly
Trad climber
WA
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Oct 24, 2009 - 12:13pm PT
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Take him to the vet. Best bet would have been to force the barbs back out even though painful, clip them, and then pull the hook. Get those barbs out quick before more issues develop.
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ontheedgeandscaredtodeath
Trad climber
San Francisco, Ca
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Oct 24, 2009 - 12:16pm PT
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Too late now, but the trick is to push the barbs all the way through, snip, and then pull out the remaining part of the hook. Sounds like a trip to the vet to me. Good luck!
Edit: I now see why the push through wouldn't work.
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Mike Bolte
Trad climber
Planet Earth
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Oct 24, 2009 - 12:24pm PT
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vet might be best, but if you decide to give it a try yourself, first you want to clip it so you have three individual hooks. Then google "removing fish hooks" and based on just how each hook is hooked choose between pressing the hook forward till the barb comes through the flesh, snip off the barbed end then back the rest of the hook back out or use the string, press down and yank method where the barb follows back through the way it went in.
This probably makes no sense without pictures.
edit: I see I left out the key first instruction--tranquilize 103lbs dog
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Jan
Mountain climber
Okinawa, Japan
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Oct 24, 2009 - 12:47pm PT
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Sorry for your dog.
It will be cheaper and less traumatic to get it taken out
before it becomes infected.
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Jan
Mountain climber
Okinawa, Japan
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Oct 24, 2009 - 01:29pm PT
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I wonder if he ever went fishing again ?
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Oct 24, 2009 - 03:41pm PT
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Now that's a story, Pate!
Cragman, I think it's gotta be a trip to the vet...
OT but related;
A long time ago, about eighty percent through the previous century, we (wife and I, Chasbro and Terisis) were backpacking in the Bighorns when Chsbro's Idiot dog Katie (Collie/coyote) had it out with a Porcupine, a day from the trailhead. Her mouth was a virtual pin cushion of barbed spines.
Nearby fisherman loaned us their pliers, and we went to work on her mouth. She was a big fierce, stupid dog, this was not easy. one of would lay on the dog while two people held her head still and person four would their best to pull spines. We rotated through our roles. And seemed to get them all, months later Katie had to go to the vet to get an infected, abcessed barb out of her head through the roof of her mouf.
To the Vet, Cragman! Katie, Skadi, Alobar, Midnight and others are behind you!
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Indianclimber
Trad climber
Lost Wages
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Oct 24, 2009 - 07:04pm PT
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Cragman ,I'm with you on that,I know the hooks dissolve in fish because of high acidity but not sure if they dissolve under skin
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BASE104
climber
An Oil Field
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Oct 24, 2009 - 08:50pm PT
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I took Duane Raleigh fly fishing once. He had never tried it.
On about his first cast, he buried a hair's ear nymph in his throat. Had to wear that thing through dinner at a little place until we got back to his pad and I tried to push the barb through to chop it off.
He got kinda jumpy and just ripped it right out. No lie. I don't think he ever tried fly fishing again though.
Nothing compares to that hook through the pecker story above, though. I regret even reading it. BRRRRRR!!!
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mark miller
Social climber
Reno
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Oct 25, 2009 - 12:10am PT
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Please take your dawg to the Vet. 15 years ago the Big Kahuna and I were at the leap and his Dog had a run into with a porcupine....Down to the Vets at Pollock pines....Nasty stuff. A fish hook isn't designed to "come" out.
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dogtown
Trad climber
JackAssVille, Wyoming
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Oct 25, 2009 - 12:14am PT
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Who is fish hook ?
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LuckyPink
climber
the last bivy
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Oct 25, 2009 - 03:42am PT
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good luck to you.. I had to do this for my squirming squalling horrified 10 year old son. chose the push and crush method and a good bleed followed by a good soak, antibiotics when we got home.
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justthemaid
climber
Jim Henson's Basement
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Oct 25, 2009 - 11:35am PT
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Take him to the vet. He'll numb it up and save your dog a lot of pain.
... just painful for your wallet.
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Jan
Mountain climber
Okinawa, Japan
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Oct 26, 2009 - 02:32am PT
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What happened to the dog and the fish hook anyway?
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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Nov 15, 2009 - 05:54pm PT
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Good news!
Glad the pup is doing well!
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Nov 15, 2009 - 08:39pm PT
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hey there cragman...say, man oh man, sure dont know how i missed this...
poor ol' pup.... :(
say, :)
GLAD to know that all is well...
say, i had three sons, and a daughter, and we learned so much about fishing and them nasty ol' hooks, that i took extra care to make sure my kids understood the dangers....
whew, we made it through their childhood... course, now:
they are on there own, with their kids, as i am too far away...
but i'm praying for the best for them! ;)
say---many folksl my know this:
seems the worse "near misses" with these nasty hooks (but very much needed tool for fishing) come when you DON'T know they are there, and you are reaching into some junk or stuff that needs cleaning, and THERE IT IS:
near hooked onto you finger or hand, if you had moved just a mite harder...
:O
*think i was a bad gal, in both cases, got pliers, clamped them up and through them away.... :O
*say, did keep a lure, once, though, but its triples are smashed up...
(well, it was kind of cute, and i never get to fish anymore)... :)
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reddirt
climber
Elevation 285 ft
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Nov 16, 2009 - 11:42am PT
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dog + fish + hook = bad
dog + fish = good
dog + fish + head = GREAT
glad to hear those barb tips came out no prob : )
I've never met you or your pup but just had the hugest sigh of relief!!
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