Through like butter like butter
Did you hear that crack I broke my cutters
No, we're gonna put some corrosion X on the back of those get out all over the place. It's good for the skin
What is going on guys? Thank you all for joining me today?
I want to talk about two things and how they relate to each other fishing pliers and
Safety now you may not think they're related or you may not think it's an important issue
But unless you live in a rock you've come across these before
These $40 P line of door appliers
And there are thousands and thousands of Chinese knockoff sold under a million different name brands
now why these are in this video or basically to show you that they're junk and
they're you know mediocre pliers at best you can see how the the
Jaws kind of twist back and forth they never get a good hook and good grip on the hook
but how they relate to safety and
How I'm gonna relate these to safety very simple take a four xvmc. Let's try to cut that hook
Did you hear that crap and it broke my cutters I?
Just broke the cutter
That's great. That was quick
That didn't last long. Hopefully recording. I don't have any more Kenny cylinder out
So yeah these are
No, bueno
At well look at that yeah, there's the backside of the cutter there. It is. That's what that's what that crack was
alright
So good we got that out of the way these are not gonna be cut in any hose
So we're gonna get the safety part out of the way
These are the Sargent
sportsman pliers in my opinion the best pliers going for all-around saltwater plier if you're a surf casters are great and
if you do end up with a hook in your hand it's got to be careful that it doesn't fly out hit me in the
Face when it does cut through like butter?
like butter
I'm not putting any stress. I'm just trying to
Get to a point where I can grab the hook, so doesn't go flying and this is a Gamakatsu octopus hook
And I'll post the pictures when a couple years ago when I first bought these
I did a couple tests and I tried cutting a
904 X Gamakatsu octopus hooks which is a very strong hook and
I didn't go over so well
And
This was a 7 o Gamakatsu octopus hook like butter
So if you do end up getting a hook in your hand if you're a musky guy and your fish and big 4x troubles
You definitely want to have something to cut a hook just in case
It's not gonna happen often if it does you might want to play guitar playing golf but
If you do run into a situation where you do get yourself pinned to a fish and pin to a hook
your best way out is to just cut the hook because any time you try to rip the fish hook the hook out of the
Fish you're gonna be pulling on the hook, and it doesn't really work out that well
So now that we've established
That pretty much the only thing that's going to get you out of that situation better than these is a pair of bolt cutters
let's go ahead and
Compare what's important to us fishermen?
Now it's kind of difficult to show on video which plier grips best, but what I can show you is
what kind of force each pot plier applies when you squeeze the handle so I took two crappy paint brushes and
I'm gonna squeeze
Using both pliers, so that's one hand and give it a squeeze
I'll embarrass myself
But you can see
It barely made it dent at all
Now we'll do the same thing with the Sargent's
And
Go ahead and squeeze
You can see right there
What a difference that makes and that's all the way at the end
Now let's take the bass profesh show style and move it further down again. This is that scissor design
I'm gonna use two hands and crush
There we go that left a mark
Then focus I still try to pick up that stick shit there we go
So that's all the way in the back good luck ever getting that far down in a fish's mouth to get a hook out
Now we'll go back a little bit further and use two hands on the Sargent
and
Then you as you can see
That was actually less effort, and it applied a bigger I guess
Whatever all right, so that's the best way. I figured to show you how much better these grip now
I'm not oblivious to the fact that the style plier does have some limitations
You're not going to take an Abrams battle. Tank when you go duck hunting so if you're fishing smaller freshwater baits
Applier with skinnier jaws will get into places. That's something like this one as you can see they're significantly wider
These do weigh about twice as much
They don't cost twice as much though right now. I think you can get these for roughly between fifty and sixty bucks
this style goes anywhere from
$10 on DHgate or Alibaba up to like 40 bucks, but they're all is pretty much the same thing and
You'll probably have a little difficulty finding the correct size line cutters just something to put out there
Which makes for a perfect segue to
the braid cutter on the Sargent's now the cutters on these and and pretty much any other plier that uses a
Secondary like a tungsten carbide cutter will cut braids and cut mono perfectly fine right out of the box, no issue there
however
Over time they all dull whether it's exposure to salt water use it of you some wear and tear
Their effectiveness at cutting any kind of braid and not leaving those a No little fuzzies left
Dwindles with time now this is what the cutter looks like when it comes in the package
I I
order two spares and
In the box when you buy these new they come with a spare already, and they also come with a matching screws
So this cutter here is
I'd say is season old and it's
It's seen some some better days
It will not come parade clean right now
So what I'm going to do is go ahead and swap it out
So that we've dumped everything all over the place we're going to go ahead now and remove the existing cutter
Those were in there good
Now we're gonna go in here with a q-tip
My microphone stucked on my head so I can't turn my head this
Moans grab it a rim and stuff
all right, so now we're gonna go ahead take some corrosion acts get it all over the place and
Since we're on camera. We're trying to do is quickly
All right duh take our cutter I
Don't want to put some corrosion acts on them back. I'll get on all over the place. It's good for the skin
Got some corrosion X. I'm gonna screw threads got it on my way. I'll handle my screwdriver so it's gonna work much better
not
Already just snug it up nothing too. Crazy yet because we're not gonna lock it down tight until we get the second one in
And now with it - barely snuck down we're going to close it and make sure
It's not out of line. You don't want to damage the cutter before we use it so now that looks good
We're going to go ahead and snug those screws down
All right, so this is six pound test
Fire line ultra eight
And my handle or greasy now, we're going to go ahead and cut that like butter
And because it was sitting next to the fire line we have our
80 pound mono
so yeah
Two things it does very well that fishermen need cut line cut braid and cut hooks. Oh, yeah, and it pulls folks out could do
Now one thing I can say if you do tie line to line joins
I don't know why they can't make a cutter that comes up kind of flush to the edge so that we can get in
Really tight and cut that that leader tag and real tight and that that braid tag real tight
Unfortunately if you do tie a you know alberto knot or something along those lines. You are probably gonna have to carry a pair of
You know nail clippers to cut that tag super short if that's what you're going for
unfortunately these pliers and these as well will not do it and here's a
You can see that cutter will blow out when I try cuddle hook just for show and tell
Now one other function. I want to go over real quick is the lock that's installed on these pliers now most guys
I don't want to have a lock. I don't wanna be bothered
This cutter is very sharp if it stays in the open position all the time
You bump that it's going to cut you pretty good the the Bass Pro fashion show style
Anvil cutters just aren't that sharp whereas this one this one will get you good
Now if you do wear a sheath or two put the pliers in a sheath
When you put it in the sheath?
Chances are it's gonna lock on its own
additionally
when it is locked it's still functional you can see there's still a gap I
Can still get in there and grab the hook it almost makes it easier to pull out you know certain hooks
While it's locked
So just throwing it out there
Don't don't be shied away, or don't think you have to pull that lock off because it is actually a benefit
Now the only drawback that I can find with these pliers is
there really is no place to put a lanyard hole so what you have to end up doing is drill out the handle and
Make your own
And I went with something like this
you know slides in the sheath perfectly and
You know good to go, and I wouldn't never drop them
Now the last thing I want to touch on in terms of form and function comes as a slight negative
And it doesn't necessarily affect everyone
It's actually a small niche
but if you're a guy that puts on a wetsuit swims out to a boulder and
Finds that their sheath and their pliers are submerged for hours at a time
You're probably not gonna want these the springs aren't stainless steel. They do rust
You will get some surface rust that doesn't really affect performance or anything other than cosmetics, but the cutter will rust
So if you're gonna be out there you may want to invest in something that's going to be saltwater
Proof versus some water resistant now in order to keep these in really good condition what I recommend you
Do you know three or four times a year?
Just take some corrosion X, and if you're not familiar where to get this stuff. I'll leave a link down below
Take a paper towel on the corrosion X and just give it a spray or two and just you're just essentially wiping it down
Just giving it a coating if you see any surface rust just you know
Give a little bit of pressure a little bit elbow grease, and they'll come right off usually
And again
these are a few years old and that's that's all I really did I don't think I ever remember washing these in fresh water and
If you can see here that the spring
Will rust you know how long it's going to take for this spring to actually fail. I don't know they haven't failed yet
but I have seen these pliers sold with one spring missing so even if one goes I actually I
gave that to my friends sudsy and
His has one spring and I almost like it better because this makes it easier to close
Whether or not makes a difference in long-term performance
I don't know, but hey, you know what if I can get five to six years out of these before I lose them
I'm good
So guys, I hope you found that informative if you like this video
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I greatly value your time the last thing you want to do is waste any of it
I appreciate all the time you guys spend here, so I will see you soon until next time tight lines