Oh yeah, Baby! I been there.

Bomber 6A and a 2.5 lb bass. My left hand. Hooks went in and ripped
out in three places. Two stuck. One in my thumb and the other in the
side of my middle finger. I slammed the whole bloody mess to the deck
of my Champion and prayed that damn fish would hold still for a few
seconds to let me see the damage and figure out a way to get rid of him.
Every wiggle hurt like hell. I finally got my thumb free and grabbed
the bait and hook, held them steady so I could shake the fish off the
hook that had him.

What a relief to get rid of that fish! Another fellow passing by came
over and I enlisted his aide. But he wasn't able to back the hook out
and didn't want to punch it thru the rest of the way.The barb appeared
to be hung up where your finger bone turns to cartiledge in the tip.
Ended up motoring in, tying up to the Marina dock. Locking all the
compartments. Traveling to downtown Golconda, IL only to find a nice
lady behind a desk at the local medical center.

"No Doctor in Pope County." "Only comes to town once a week." You're
gonna have to go to Rosiclare."

Rosiclare is the nearest hospital and doctor's office and it's in the
next county. Trip over and back, $100 deductible on my insurance,
bandaged finger and a prescription for antibiotics. What fun that was.
He used his biggest hemostat to grab the thing and on the third try it
pulled back out. He said if it had not come out then, he was gonna have
to lay the finger open with a scalpel.

Yeah, I had tried with my needle nose and couldn't move it. That other
guy had tried and said he was afraid I might pass out, but gave it a
good go. I love fishing crank baits, but I am real careful nowadays.