LOL @ Skeeter :barf:
Dude if you want to risk loosing a finger, you keep stick'n your fingers down the gullet of those 1-2lbr's. Let me know when you bring back a nub...
A pair of long nose pliers always does the trick. No chances or pains to suffer the next day. Except for the fish if it swallowed the J-hook, or was a keeper (to the smoker ya go). LOL