Entsport Fish Lip Gripper Fish Scales Professional Fish Holder Stainless Steel Fish Lip Grabber 40 Pound Fish Lip Grip Tool with Weight Scale

Very easy to tool for holding your fish while retrieving your hook

Even irrespective of it's comparatively low price, this product is AWESOME. As someone for whom fishing is part of my livelihood, I feel that I must give this little gripper 5 stars. I took my first real surf-fishing trip in November of 2017 and used this grip, completely submerging in seawater on multiple occasions. I placed in a bag other than my fishing bag and only just found it and cleaned it today. After rinsing the sand off of it, I failed to find any signs of rust externally, and all the mechanisms still functioned well, although with a bit of grinding yet from some sand. A bit of oil to the gripper joints and to the scale shaft and she's ready for another season. Seriously, this thing is an Amazon Choice for a reason. Excellent feel, no buyers remorse, just be ready for the e-mails about leaving a review. I got a few when I first bought it 6 months ago and another one just a few minutes ago. Weird that they really want to get the follow-up, but nice that they probably realized I want to see how it holds up over a proper period before leaving a review. After using (and pretty severely abusing) this product, I can recommend this tool without any reservation. If the price seems too good to be true, it probably is. This is one of those rare instances where it's not.

It holds firmly but the scale is useless.

This is an EXCELLENT value in fish grippers. Why anyone would pay $125 for the competitors product is mind numbing. As a service connected veteran, I make EVERY effort to buy American when possible, but I WILL NOT throw good money away. The fit and finish of the Entsport gripper is excellent, the mechanical design is strong, made of quality materials and works fantastic... Gripping a fishes mouth is not rocket science, it does not require spending 3 digits. I've used the my friends Boga grip and after buying this, I need to do a side x side review to illustrate the blatant lack of sense and judgement you'd have display to justify spending an additional $110 for a tool who's only advantage is mechanical rotation in hand. I CAN NOT be clearer here... It really goes to show the dumbing down of the American consumer, the effects of marketing, and a wage gap where people apparently have more money than sense. It is simply baffling how anyone could justify such a ridiculous waste of money.

The gripper (and scale) are stout and stainless. It is spring loaded. Grip is rubber and non-slip. It holds the fish firmly. The rubs to me are two- first if you have one hand on the line, fish or lure/bait it is difficult for me to operate (meaning open) the jaws to grab the fish’ lower lip, and second, unless you are Hercules, it is difficult to open the jaws far enough to easily grasp the lip of your catch, which in my case are “slot” stripers or slightly better or large bluefish. It wasn’t expensive and with those caveats, I will continue to use it, but admittedly, because I lost my el cheapo Cabelas red plastic one which was easier for me to use. I feel bad to dump on it but that is my experience.