Mustad lip grip
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Mustad lip grip
I bought a Mustad lip grip 1 foot long made of stainless steel at Academy in Galveston this morning for $ 12.99. That seemed like a very good price, so I bought one for the wife too!
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Re: Mustad lip grip
Doesn't your wife object to being gripped by the lip???Davy Jones wrote:I bought a Mustad lip grip 1 foot long made of stainless steel at Academy in Galveston this morning for $ 12.99. That seemed like a very good price, so I bought one for the wife too!
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Lip Gripper
I have been looking at the lip grips. I have seen the Berkly ones for anywhere between 13.00 - 24.99 . The Boga one are really $$. If I lost a Boga I would be sick for monthes. I wonder do the less expensive ones work as well?
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Horrible experiences every single time, nuthin but trouble. You need to give those retched things to me. I will see that they are properly disposed of.RandallW20 wrote: I may have to get one of those, I got an Academy gift card burning a hole in my pocket.
Anyone have any bad experiance with these
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In all seriouness, they work GREAT. I have one that I got from wally world, FOGA's (fake-bogas). I use mine more for fish handling than I do any weighing. For the most part, I could honestly care less about weight since we are regulated more by size than weight. The few times I have worried about the weight, I was headed to the scale later in the day. And the FOGA was pretty darn close. Since, they are not as quality as the bogas are, I take a bit more care into them. I.E. freshwater rinse and oil after a good saltwater trip or two, about the same with my rods and reels.Brazos wrote:I have been looking at the lip grips. I have seen the Berkly ones for anywhere between 13.00 - 24.99 . The Boga one are really $$. If I lost a Boga I would be sick for monthes. I wonder do the less expensive ones work as well?
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Re: Lip Gripper
I had a Rapala brand and it worked great. It was not as expensive as the Boga, so I was only sick for weeks when I lost it in 40' of water at a lake.Brazos wrote:I have been looking at the lip grips. I have seen the Berkly ones for anywhere between 13.00 - 24.99 . The Boga one are really $$. If I lost a Boga I would be sick for monthes. I wonder do the less expensive ones work as well?
Now I have a much cheaper one from BPS, but I have not caught a fish since getting it so I cant say how it works.
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Re: Lip Gripper
You got that grip before your yak???Hambone911 wrote:I had a Rapala brand and it worked great. It was not as expensive as the Boga, so I was only sick for weeks when I lost it in 40' of water at a lake.Brazos wrote:I have been looking at the lip grips. I have seen the Berkly ones for anywhere between 13.00 - 24.99 . The Boga one are really $$. If I lost a Boga I would be sick for monthes. I wonder do the less expensive ones work as well?
Now I have a much cheaper one from BPS, but I have not caught a fish since getting it so I cant say how it works.
I have a berkley version with a tape measure and the gripper works great. The tape measure rusted and broke, but I don't use it anyway and at $27, I didn't care. I have seen a WOGA (Walmart version) with a scale for around the same money (maybe $20) but I don't know how effective the scale is. This mustad grip looks just as good and half the price of my berkly. I did notice that the berkly was easier to engage and disingage than a WOGA I tried, but that wouldn't keep it from being effective.