I've seen all the fancy stuff out there and have decided that the adage, "Back to the Future ", most certainly applies to fishing pliers!!!

   I got my first pair of dedicated fishing pliers in the last of the 1950's. They were the small size, Sargent, fishing pliers...and I bought them because the offshore charter captains and mates all carried them on their belts in leather scabbards. I later learned that the chartermen along the Florida Keys used them as well. It was no accident that they, to a man, did.
 

   The jaws of these pliers were parallel and had tremendous mechanical advantage and did not slip off the work. They had terrific side cutters that were tough enough to cut wire and could cut monofilament tag ends up real close!
 

   Eventually, the Sargent Company quit making the small size pliers and the task was taken up by the Manley Company...who made some improvements (which actually were improvements) and the product is simply the finest, most reasonably priced, convenient fishing plier on the market today...No doubt!!!
 

   So impressed with the pliers am I, that I had a supply of fabulous scabbards made by a saddle smith, just for the Manleys', and they're available here on the site.