....can't find the link with pictures, but a technique I had to learn when I
started fishing senkos goes something like this....if you can see the hook,
cut off a foot or so of line and while lipping the bass feed the line down
along the gill plate.... avoiding the gills if possible...pull straight down
on the tag end and this will rotate the hook so the bend can be grabbed with
pliers and popped straight out.....I've done this hundreds of times and have
only lost a few patients.....I routinely demonstrate this at weigh-ins
because the plated hooks just don't disolve like the old bronze Eagle Claws
we grew up with. offered up Huck