String Trick
OK I'm on a break so I got to type fast...

1. Hook is in your finger.
2. The barb is usually 1/16 of an inch from the shank.
3. Wrap your mono around the hook shank about 1/16th of an inch thick.
4. Your shank should be full of mono 1/16th of an inch thick.
from the place where it entered your finger to teh eye of the hook

5. Now the pain.[]
Slide the string {that is tightly wound} through your finger following all the way to the barb.

6.Pushing against the barb..you now have no barb. The line has tasken up that space.

7 Grit your teeth and pull the hook out the way it went in.

8. With the barb trapped by your tightly wound string it will now come out.