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lefty
Captains Club Member
NC Kayak Angler
Registered: November 2005
Location: Cary
Posts: 2815
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Review Date: 6/1/2006
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: $18.95
| Rating: 5
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Pros:
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Seems well constructed - small and compact
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Cons:
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Tape printing is too small
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Just got it, haven't tried it yet. (Gotta catch something besides another stick.) I'm surprised at how small it really is -- the handle is almost too small for my hands, and I'm not that big a guy. The tape really struck me as very small -- ya ain't gonna be able to read it in a hurry, that's for sure. Have your fish sit still for a minute. The tape is marked in both english and metric units -- it'd be a lot easier to read if it were one or the other. Seems like it'd be comfortable enough, though...
After a couple of months and two saltwater outings, the measuring tape is visibly suffering from exposure. The paint is coming off and it's starting to rust. And the pull-handle on the tape gets real small when you've got water and/or slime on your fingers. If you've got your eye on this gripper, don't buy it for the tape.
As for the gripper part, it's done OK, but not great, in my book. It held two trout and a flounder recently, each one long enough for me to get the hook out, but none of them long enough to get a photo.
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lefty
Captains Club Member
NC Kayak Angler
Registered: November 2005
Location: Cary
Posts: 2815
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Review Date: 3/5/2007
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: None indicated
| Rating: 3
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I removed the rusty tape this weekend -- comes out easy after you remove two allen screws. Also noticed that the jaws are getting awful stiff. Looks like this thing is strictly a freshwater gizmo.
Live and learn, I guess.
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lefty
Captains Club Member
NC Kayak Angler
Registered: November 2005
Location: Cary
Posts: 2815
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Review Date: 10/23/2007
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: None indicated
| Rating: 0
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After buying one of the orange plastic grippers to replace this one, I illustrated to my wife why I needed the new (cheaper) one. I gripped a magazine in the jaws of the Berkeley gripper and then held it vertically. The magazine dropped right out, unless I pushed on the thumb-lever to force the jaws closed.
The orange plastic gripper would not let go of the magazine no matter how hard I thrashed it.
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NC Angler Fishing
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