Getting Hooked & Unhooked

[Lee Borgersen]

                         Getting Hooked & Unhooked

Last week one day I was feeling pain from my toe area. Having diabetes I sometimes have weird feelings in my toes. Therefore I just thought it was one of those days. I told my wife it was annoying until I made a pivot on my foot and yelled ouch! That was a sharp pain unlike a small discomfort.

I went and sat on the bed and started pull my left sock off and it got stuck at the toe for some reason creating pain. Being a plus size man I couldn't flex enough to see the bottom of my foot. There I sat with a sock just dangling. I called for backup and Borgie arrived. "What's wrong says she?".


"My sock is stuck and if I pull it there's pain says I" So, she looked and saw that a fish hook was in my toe including the barb and the shank eyelet was stuck in the toe of the sock. I couldn't see any of that, being a plus size (full grown) man. At that point I said get me a hand mirror so I could view the area. I tried to explain to her a method to remove the hook but she was to nervous and refused to try it.

I was on my own with limited visibility or flexibility. With her holding the mirror I managed to cut the sock loose with a scissors. I used some nearby fishing line to lasso the curve in the hook. Then I followed the instructions as shown on a video that I learned from years ago.

I'm sure many of you have used this method before but some may not have seen it.

  for my long boring tale but, that's what reminded me to post this video
Enjoy the following video and remember it well: