Why You Need Forceps for Fly Fishing (59 of 59)

00:31 little cutters on them so that you can cut knots with them. And one of the ways 00:37 that I use forcips a lot is to debarb a hook. So this hook is not barblous, 00:45 and I wanna fish barblous. So all I have to do is come in here with the flat 00:51 front end of the forcips and just press down, move the hook a little bit, 00:57 and I'll have a barblous hook. That's all there is to it. And some people will 01:02 actually tie knots with their forcips. There's ways of tying some of the more 01:06 difficult knots using forcips to twist the line. I don't do it, but a lot of 01:11 people do. And then another use is when you're when you're trying to when you got 01:18 a box of dry flies like this that's that's got all kinds of little flies in there 01:24 and you want to pick one out it's awfully tough to put your fat fingers in that 01:28 flybox but you can use your forceps to grab the fly you want and pull it out so 01:34 a lot of uses for sips they're handy to have and I If you're going to be fly 01:41 fishing, you need a pair of forcems. 01:48 Well, that's the first fish on the mouse. It's always an exciting eat when they 01:53 take a mouse fly. It's just so visual, and the fish get really excited about it. 02:00 Nice brown trout.