Yesterday while on the lake,a gentleman pulled his boat up next to my kayak,and ask me if I could help him dislodge a treble hook from his index finger.Ive never used the string and yank method,but when I presented this option to him,he declined( something about yanking a hook backward goes against even my desire )
I much prefer to shove the point ahead through and snip the barb end off,so did the man with the hook.After dismantling the spinner,only the treble hook remaind,shoving the barb ahead through didn't bother me at all.next problem was my leatherman side cutters were to big to snip the end off a #12 treble.
I did manage to flatten the barb,and slide the hook back out,but we both decided that a small set of quality side cutters would have made the operation much easier,a set will forever live in our tackle box.