plier choices - Striper Talk Striped Bass Fishing, Surfcasting, Boating

zacs · 08-07-2007, 08:00 AM

i am on season 5 with my Donmars. I love them. use the sheath with the lanyard and you will not lose them.

they cut braid and are smooth. i love the donmars.

BigFish · 08-07-2007, 08:10 AM

You guys lose your pliers....sounds like you need to get the VS with the lanyard.......I have had mine 4 years now.....have not lost them yet! Gotta be a damn fool if you lose them with a lanyard!!!

fishpoopoo · 08-07-2007, 08:18 AM

Get a dozen $3 stainless steel pliers from Ocean State Job Lot.

Send them into a place that provides saltwater resistant coating for $5/apiece.

Not a bad option if you're prone to losing pliers like I am.

Van Staal pliers are nice, but they're not bulletproof.

BigFish · 08-07-2007, 08:24 AM

I don't shoot em'.....just release fish with them! Boils down to convenience......wanna keep swapping out your crappy pliers every month or so, or have them so rusty when you are waist deep in water trying to unhook a fatty that you wind up getting a hook buried in your hand with the fish still attached because you were futzing around with your crappy pliers (on top of that you won't be able to cut the hook to get it easily out of your hand) then by all means.....do what you think is right!

BigFish · 08-07-2007, 08:26 AM

Bassturbed....ever own a pair of VS Pliers??? I am betting not cause you would still have them! Unless you lost them?

fishpoopoo · 08-07-2007, 09:01 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BigFish

Bassturbed....ever own a pair of VS Pliers??? I am betting not cause you would still have them! Unless you lost them?

i did.

they broke.

VS wouldn't fix it w/o me shelling out more $$$ on top of the $$$$$$ I already spent.

i was so livid, i took them out to the 200 yard line of my local rifle range. blew them to $hit with some 300 Winchester Magnum handloads.

i felt better afterwards.

daceman63 · 08-07-2007, 09:50 AM

what do you use the pliers for?

JFigliuolo · 08-07-2007, 08:25 AM

job lot pliars. 1 can of wd-40. Going on 3 years. rusted to crap but still get the job done.

Redsoxticket · 08-07-2007, 08:27 AM

Improvise and be creative. IF you don't have a laynard use surgical tubing.

Dame fool not I, bet you also never lost your mittens because you had a string tied to both mittens via the jacket.