The Most Important Piece Of Equipment In Your Bag!
 

I have learned over the few years I have been striper fishing, through one experience or another, that the most important piece of equipment you can carry with you when fishing....be it on your boat or in your tackle bag is a first rate, razor sharp pair of cutters capable of cutting fish hooks! I have seen several folks over the past few years get fish hooks embedded deep in their hands or even scalp and when I saw this...thank goodness I had my cutters with me! Your out fishing and you get a hook embedded in your hand.....what are you going to do???? :huh: Just a reminder to folks who don't carry them....there may come a day when you or someone you know gets a hook in the hand.....a great pair of cutters are worth their weight in gold!

I agree! I use my old pair of lineman pliers but they are rusty from the salt...any recommendations??

http://www.mytoolstore.com/klein/d213st.html

oh so true, good thread.

We have been using nickel plated for a while now . Stand up really well to the salt water.

wheres that pic
 

BJS :usd:

There's also a way to get them out the same way they went in -- I've seen it in action. Pretty impressive. :conf: I'd have to say, though, that the most important thing in my bag has got to be either my car keys or some form of tobacco.

Long long time ago it would have been my bowl, my bag and my lighter ( :eek5: ), now it's my line clippers and my file! :hf1:

Most important thing in my bag?

An extra flashlight. Have your light die on ya out at Naps, or out on Cutty and you'll know why. Mini-Maglite is nice and thin, fits in bag real good and will save your butt :btu:

fond memories of that night.
hehe

specially at the end of the night when everyone forgot the hook had been in my head 8 hours... the doctors all laughed at me.

been posted before but..

http://eatthekitty.com/albums/me/hooked_001.jpg

you liberal you :smokin:


for me, its my head lamp.... I can always walk back to the buggy with a plug in my hand, but if its a new moon and its overcast and i have to crawl through a moonscape to get back, i have to have a headlight. IF not, i am screwed beyond belief.

As a victim of the hook past the barb in the palm of my hand, I'd have to agree with the hook cutting pliers, my manleys.

My brain, never leave home without it :rotfl:

You keep it in your bag?? :hf1:

Hope you don't misplace it. :jump:

Most important piece of equipment from a safety stand point is not in my bag but around my neck. It's a lanyard with a mini mag light and a whistle. If you ever get hurt, lost etc the whistle will be heard farther and you can blow it a long time verses shouting especially with a loud surf. Course I never go out with out a pair of good side cutter pliers.

A 9mm

Sigh..... One could only dream of the possibilities that a 9MM could bring to reality on an open beach with a decent fish on your line and a seal pops up. Oh.... just the thought causes me to salivate. :liquify: :claps: :uhuh: :heybaby:

Thank you Bigfish. There were fish there again tonight.

How is your finger...did you get stitches as I suggested? ;) Anytime Max....how was the fish? :kewl:

Didn't get stitches, probably should but whatever. I didn't get to eat the fish because I was at the sox games last night. The family ate it. It would have been a tough ride home if you werent there thanks again.

that photo is pretty nasty

Ive had mini-cutters in my trunk incase of an accidental hooking, found cutting the hooks is not easy, especially when its connected to a fishermen who will whine everytime its touched. Last time it happened to a parter, with a mambo minnow, gave up cutting it after a few minutes and ended up going to ER and they had to use a rib cutter to cut the point off after giving anestesia.

Thse pliers look pretty good, may give them a shot as they are not expensive but you guys sure they will cut through hooks like ss 3/0?.
http://www.mytoolstore.com/klein/d213st.html

Absolutely right, i had a squirming bloofish hanging off a treble hook all the way through the meat between thumb and forefinger..

No cutters, but pliers bent the barb down flat, still hurt like a B coming out.

Always have cutters now...

Absolutely.