May be a way forward but may not.  Looks fraught with problems to me but at least it recognises the problem;

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-60156103.amp 

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PAINFUL MOMENT.

I’m sure we are all aware of the pain that can be inflicted by a fast moving fly hitting you by accident in the wrong place.  I was made aware of this quite early on in my fly fishing career when on a visit to the Packington fishery at Meriden in Warwickshire, I arrived to see an angler being led out of the lodge, on his way to hospital with a size 8 black lure embedded in an eyeball/

Mercifully such an event has evaded me but a painful incident in another way has been unpleasant to say the least.   I was fishing at the Nyth one day with Mr Kennedy Brown, a nice guy who I understand was instrumental in getting Chew Valley trout fishery off the ground.  We crossed the river in the boat  to fish the opposite bank and walked upstream to fish one of the pools.  I left the net in the boat!.

Sure enough Mr Brown was into a fish on a treble hooked fly. This fish was about 8lbs or so.

I decided I could tail the fish without the walk back to the boat to get the net.   The fish was eventually brought close in and I tailed it and put by right hand under its gill cover to make it easier to carry.  At this point the fish went somewhat berserk and in doing so twisted my hand around so the treble hooked fly became embedded between my thumb and first finger, not a nice situation to say the least.  Mr Brown was fairly elderly and couldn’t help much but eventually I got the fly out of the fish but not my hand.  We despatched the fish, which we should have done in the first place and cut off the fly but I could not remove the hook from my hand..  

A painful walk back to the boat, a painful row across the river and eventually back to the Lodge.  Normal practice would have been to push the hook through the skin, expose the point and cut it off below the barb but this hook was in flesh too deep for this.  There was talk about going to hospital but I sat there for about an hour wiggling away at the hook and after much blood and pain managed to pull it out.  Not recommended.

Mention of Mr Brown reminds me of the time he was fishing one of the fast pools with a lot of water noise.  I walked up behind him and  asked him if he had any luck.  He never heard me so I tapped him on the shoulder.   He was deeply immersed in his fishing and reacted like a startled raibbit and nearly fell in.  He turned round, ashen faced and said, “Geoff for god’s sake don’t ever do that again.  At least that's what I think he said.!