[Breakaway]

I know Mike is right for the most part, but I think sometimes it becomes a judgement call. No way my buddy was going to ride around all day with a stingsilver stuck in the palm of his hand, and I guarantee he would have never gone to the hospital to have it removed. We cut it out with my Gerber tool, but it was far from the ideal tool for the job. It's a needle nose plier and the cutter is towards the middle of the tool. It was very tough, and painful (not for me), trying to get the hook up far enough into the tool to cut it. I now have a pair of high leverage cutters that I keep in my boat bag. The bag doesn't stay on the boat so I don't worry about them rusting, and I have a set of these pliers that I use at work and can tell you they will easily cut through any hook I would ever use in the bay. Probably wouldn't work on a gaff though!!