“We were using all sorts of pliers and vise-grips to hold the fish by their lips.breaking jaws and tearing big holes,” Tucker explains. Norton-who created the original prototype and then developed it alongside Tucker Hoge and his father, Cal-noticed he wasn’t the only one taking a beating in the process. We’re talking about fish that can get up to 3.5 feet long.and put up a lot of fight when brought into the boat. The idea was devised by Don Norton, a Mississippi native who loved fishing for large Red Drums (also know as Channel Bass or simply Redfish) in the Gulf of Mexico. The fish may not realize it at the time, but many a tear has been prevented over the years thanks to The Fish Grip. Essentially a specialized set of pliers, the grip clamps down in a fish’s mouth-keeping the angler’s fingers safe from teeth, sharp gills and their own hook during the removal process. The specimen’s instinct to escape creates potential for injury to both itself and the fishermen from “misplaced” hooks and fins. This can get risky for both parties when attempting to remove the hook. If you want to weigh it, or get a picture before tossing it back, you often need to deal with plenty of thrashing. The catch is in survival mode-it can’t know that you intend to throw him back. We decided to review The Fish Grip to see what was going on.Ĭonsider the impact on both fish and fisherman after reeling in a winner.
One of these individuals is Tucker Hoge and the rest of the team behind The Fish Grip, a tool designed to make the handling of a freshly-caught fish less stressful to both the angler and the angled. That said, we’re 100 percent for anybody who has a method in mind for keeping “catch-and-release” fishing as gentle on the prize as possible. We may not necessarily be the most fish-friendly of blogs-after all, recent guest star Russ Bailey has a segment dedicated to cooking crappie, his catch of choice.
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