Accidental line cutter discovery

Greg_Cornish · Post by **Greg_Cornish** » Sun Jan 24, 2010 2:07 pm

Yesterday while tying on lures and leaders I was looking for something to cut off old lures. When some people cut them off they leave some line on the lure tie that has to be dealt with later, and it wastes time on the water when you want to tie them back on.

I opened my wife's junk drawer to look for scissors and found a pair of Safari Pet Toenail Clippers. They have blades that encircle the cat or dogs toenail and that works great for the line. You can circle the line with the jaws, pull down to the hook loop and put tension on you line and cut right through the knot completely freeing the lure or hook.

They are also very sharp, tight and precision. You can get them at Rainbow Agriculture and at most pet stores.

redneck27 · Post by **redneck27** » Sun Jan 24, 2010 2:12 pm

That's a good find. Did you happen to try them on braid?

Greg_Cornish · Post by **Greg_Cornish** » Sun Jan 24, 2010 2:21 pm

redneck27 wrote:That's a good find. Did you happen to try them on braid?

Yes on 20 lb test. I'll try to get the wife to trudge through the garage for some heavier stuff and give it a shot.

EDIT:

I have 20 spools in a box in the garage- she can't find it.

Mitch · Post by **Mitch** » Mon Jan 25, 2010 7:54 am

If she's like my wife, after 5 seconds she's thinking of something else as she wanders thru the garage just looking but not seeing. LOL LOL

Wolfeman · Post by **Wolfeman** » Mon Jan 25, 2010 8:46 am

My wife only puts stuff 'into' the garage. She knows nothing about taking stuff 'out of' the garage.
- Wolfeman (Rick Wolfe)

Rbass519 · Post by **Rbass519** » Mon Jan 25, 2010 9:42 am

I use my wife's old hair cutting scissors. When they're "too dull" for hair they're still sharp as hell. Check with your barber they get rid of their scissors pretty often.

Doug Warren · Post by **Doug Warren** » Mon Jan 25, 2010 1:46 pm

Honey have you seen the toenail clippers?

redneck27 · Post by **redneck27** » Mon Jan 25, 2010 3:29 pm

Greg_Cornish wrote:
redneck27 wrote:That's a good find. Did you happen to try them on braid?
Yes on 20 lb test. I'll try to get the wife to trudge through the garage for some heavier stuff and give it a shot.

EDIT:

I have 20 spools in a box in the garage- she can't find it.

LMAO, at least she tried to help you out. Thanks for the info.

Greg_Cornish · Post by **Greg_Cornish** » Tue Jan 26, 2010 5:26 pm

Okay guys, here's the skinny. I tried these out on tight stretch 20 braid, they worked great. Anything above 30 lb braid, they simply suck. However, they cut all sizs of mono and a cool thing is the way the cut the knot off the hook.

But good call on the guess on heavier braid -not good!