Fishing pliers - Page 2

Unhooking pliers

The most common is the unhooking pliers. Necessary for pike fishing, they come in different sizes to suit different species. Pike unhooking pliers are particularly large to protect your hands from their sharp teeth.

Cutting pliers

For your leaders

Dentists may not like it, but it's often said that an angler's third hand is his mouth. It's common for anglers to cut their fluoro with their teeth, but this can have serious consequences. However, there are pliers that can be used to cut your excess leaders or braid.

For safety's sake

Fishing is not a high-risk sport, but like any other activity it does present a few dangers, one of which is setting a hook. In this kind of situation, there aren't many solutions left:

• go to emergency
• remove it yourself

Be careful: if the hook is stuck in your hand or head, it is not advisable to remove it yourself. However, for the less sensitive among us, if the hook is in the flesh, you can do it yourself.

To do this, you need to cut the hook after thebarb to remove it. In this case, a pair of wire cutters will be a great help.

Pliers for your rigs

Sometimes, despite the abundance of products on the market, you just can't find the right rig for your lure. In this kind of situation, all you have to do is make it yourself. That's when you'll need tools and accessories.

To join the different parts of your rig, you'll need sleeves andsplits rings.

These accessories are particularly complicated to use on their own, or even impossible in the case of sleeves. Fishing brands have therefore developed sleeve and ring pliers splitto enable you to use them.

The splits rings pliers have a small beak that allows you to open the ring in its thickness and insert the loop of a hook.

As for the sleeve pliers, they have several notches that adapt to the different sizes of sleeve you use. Simply wedge your fluorocarbon into the sleeve, slide the sleeve with the fluoro into the pliers and crimp.