The 6” Straight Forceps are traditional stainless forceps which are ideal for removing hooks from fish.
The Forceps can be closed and locked, this enables you gain a secure grip on the fishing hook and aids unhooking of the fish.
6” Straight Forceps work well with smaller hooks when bait fishing and are particularly good with flatfish.*
The 6” Straight Forceps are also very good for lure anglers and are a much safer way of removing trebles from the fish and greatly reduce the risk of other hooks catching in you hand if the fish moves whilst removing the lure.
The locking jaws on the 6” Straight Forceps allow you to lock them to a pocket flap or your bag to keep them safe and on hand for when you need to use them.
*A neat trick with flatties is to carefully put the forceps through the fishes gill cover and out of the mouth. If you then pull the trace line back through the gill cover you can pull the loop, reverse the hook and simply get it out through the gills.
If you then put the forceps in the fishes mouth and carefully out of the gills you can hold the hook bend and safely pull the hook and trace backwards out of the mouth.
This saves damage to the hook and if the fish is being returned it greatly increases its chances of swimming off strongly