Tri Shear cutter, the ultimate cutting tool for fisherman.

Tri Shear line cutting tool video review. This is my first video review of a product,  as  just writing about it will not do it justice.

Tri Shear

I came across the Tri Shear by Innovative Fishing Tackle at the 2009 ICAST in Orlando Florida this past July.  I was pretty impressed. The tool is light weight aluminum that will cut just about any line you could possible used on a fishing boat. It cuts mono obviously but it cuts mono up to 600lbs. It cuts braid all the way up to 200lb test. The most impressive is seeing it cut steel leaders all the way up to 600lb test, single or multi strand. It never gets dull so the next cut after cutting steel can be 10lb braid.
If it does get dull the company said they would replace it. For about $80 bucks, it comes with a lanyard and a holster plus a lifetime warranty. Not a bad deal.
I couldn’t get  a hold of one and I’ve been looking for them in the stores ever since. Well, I started to see them in stores lately and got a hold of one. I sat in the garage and started to look for things to cut up. I got a hold of steel shark leaders, dacron, small diameter braided line. I have to say it did it’s job nicely. This tool will be staying with me almost every time I get on the water.
Locally I have seen the tool at Tampa Fishing Outfitters in Tampa  and Captain Ted’s Tackle in Charlotte County.

Everglades Alligator Photos

Feb 19th 2010
I had a few minutes this morning to go through some photos from the last couple of weeks.
From the everglades mother ship trip to the Miami Boat show.
Coming up today or tomorrow a couple of lure review by my friend Rich Osgood. I got him a prototype Sebile magic swimmer. He really digs it.
I was about 10feet away from this everglades alligator. The photos was a little out of focus I was it was low light and I was shooting in f2.8 but I thought it was a cool blurry action shot.





Miami Sky Line

Calamari

Jungle Jooooooooooooose! no it was not mine. yes I tasted it.. thumbs down.


Poor man’s way of How to shoot in the rain.

Rough Day boating and fishing that day with Sebile.


Tailers with Captain Joe Harley

Wang Anchor Photos shoot and the new Mirro Lur Scented baits. Lil John and the Provoker!

Most of the day was spent working on a video project that wasn’t the most exciting thing in the world. It was a website corporate video about repairing potholes.  Yes, not exactly jumping tarpon on fly exciting but it pays the bills so can’t complain.


I got a few request for images from the magazines so I had to search in my archives as most of the photos were sent off almost a year a go.  Perhaps things are looking up for the magazines finally. I know I have been pretty busy with request for video and photography lately. Who knows this could be the year the economy stabilize. I know many guides that are hurting pretty bad right now due to the slow down. The recent fish kill did not fair well for the fishing industry either.

In the afternoon I had a studio shoot with Tom of Wanganchor.com lined up. We were to shoot some product shots for his new website. This time we got Jackie a local model to make Tom’s product even cooler than it is. After all, his motto for the product is “Hang out with your wang out”.  The shoot went very well and Tom was very pleased with the results. We even shot some cool video clips with Jackie saying the motto. I will be editing that footage here in the next few days.



Mirrolure is Tampa Base lure company.  Their product has been proven time and time again as one of the most popular fish catching lure in our local waters. My personal favorite of theirs is the ever popular mirrodine. They had just came out with some scent soft plastics called lil Jon and provoker. I was talking to Mike, one of the guys over at Mirrolure he will be sending me some to test out, review and use here in the  next couple days.

They are also sending products for us to give away for the saltyshores newletters readers. They will be sending Soft and hard plastics to give away to our readers. So if  you  have not join please do so by clicking on the menu link above.

Everglades Mother Ship video, rough cut.

Mothership rough cut from Sam Root on Vimeo.

World Record Snooks, Found dead near the Manatee River after the freeze of Jan 2010

World Record Snook perhaps. This Five feet Monster snook was found dead on the banks of the Manatee River after the freeze.


February 1st, 2010
Author: Sam Root of Saltyshores.com

Perhaps a World Record snook for sure.



When I first looked at it, I thought it was a big drum of some sort but a closer look reveal it is definitely a snook.



This Giant snook measured 60″ long. Yes that is a real 5 feet long snook not just a fish story. This leviathan was found dead on the side of the Manatee river after an unprecedented freeze that took the lives of millions of fish.