Boomerang Tool: The Pliers That Come Right Back – First Impressions

Boomerang Tool is, as the title suggests, a tool that comes back to you after use. These lightweight aluminum pliers feature replaceable carbide blades and 36″ of retractable kevlar cable with a split ring on the end to attach to your boat, belt, wherever. No more dropping your pliers in the bottom of the boat, or the lake for that matter. The retractable cable keeps your pliers always at hand for that next fish. It even comes with a two year ultra warranty in the US and Canada! And the Boomerang Tool comes in everything from the pliers you see below to knives, line snips, golf tools, lens brushes for photographers and more!

At 9 inches long and only 177g (6.25oz) The Boomerang Tool feels very solid in my hands despite their light weight. The aluminum jaws extend back through the handles for maximum strength and grip. The carbide cutting blades are fully replaceable and easily cut fluorocarbon at 80# and PowerPro at 65#. The blades look like they could snip your average 4/0-5/0 bass hooks, but I wouldn’t count on them cutting your much bigger pike and musky sized hooks. Still, if you ruin the blades, they’re totally replaceable.

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Roam Tack Pack: First Impressions

The Roam Fishermen’s Tack Pack from Roam Products is; to put it simply, a travel size tackle pack that rolls up into a neat bundle that easily fits in to your cargo pants or vest pocket. This camouflage version was sent to us by Roam for the purposes of a review, and my first impressions are very positive. I will be putting it to the full test this week as Clive and I make our return to the Toronto Islands.

Inside the Tack Pack you will find several clear zip-close bags for storing just about all your tackle needs. I’ve filled mine with my all my terminal tackle: hooks, weights, swivels, split rings, leaders, even some plastic baits. I must say having these small items out of my plastic plano boxes, and into a nice organized binder like this makes fishing out that one just-the-right-size item so much easier.

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Happy Valentines Day!

I don’t understand why Cupid was chosen to represent Valentine’s Day. When I think about romance, the last thing on my mind is a short, chubby toddler coming at me with a weapon. ~Author Unknown

Quick Hook Removal

I’m not convinced this is the best way to take a hook out of your skin, but it does make for a great video!

via Blanco Honky

IronClad Softbaits, Go Ahead Take A Bite!

It’s not everyday that we get an introduction to a new fishing lure from Popular Science, but that’s exactly what happened. The new softbait created by Ben Hobbins (photo) called IronClads are the winner of a 2009 Invention Award for creating a durable softbait lure that uses a surgical trick to prevent getting torn from hooks, and better yet it’s made from an eco-friendly nontoxic material.

In 2006, Hobbins, an avid fisherman, was really just trying to come up with a stronger version of the lures he was using for ice fishing, when the concept came to him. “I hate rebaiting hooks in zero-degree weather,” he says. A former biotech strategist, he speculated that methods used in the industry for skin grafting—using an expandable mesh to ensure that a graft stays intact and in place—could also work for reinforcing lures. The result was IronClads, which stay firmly on their hooks because of a microtube of polyester mesh that lends strength to the plastic, just as rebar gives tensile strength to concrete. The lures can sustain 93 pounds of tensile strain, so only fish with serrated teeth and considerable heft could possibly bite through them.

IronClads: How It Works: The IronClads’s twin polyester-tube skeleton acts like rebar in concrete, giving the lure the tensile strength to withstand anything but a direct chomp from the biggest, toothiest fish Bland Designs

I’ve sent an email to Ben about getting a pack or two of these for a review. Fingers crossed!!

via PopSci