grueling Battle

For more than thirty years, Dr. John Craighead has been one of the world's leading experts on bears. So when an Alaskan brown bear emerged from the forest near where Craighead was fishing, he thought nothing of it. But then the hooked salmon he was fighting started to jump, causing the bear to plunge into the water and take the fish in its mouth. "I had the bear on my line for about thirty seconds or more," Craighead said. "But of course there was nothing I could do." The bear clambered up the bank of the river and entered the heavy brush, breaking off Craighead's fishing line!

Knives

What was the first thing I need in my tackle box that I just knew probably would not be where I left it? Yes a pocket knife. You get half way out in the lake in your boat and say oh did I check to see if my knife was in the box. I use my pocket knife for a lot of things then I miss place it just at the time I need it. Fishing string tangles then you have to change it when the biggest fish you have seen all day just swam away. I try to keep more than one folding pocket knife around even a Swiss army knife comes in handy when you are on the water all day. My folding pocket knife is part of everything I use fishing all the time. Never leave home without it.

My tactical knife is to hard to handle when you just need to cut small string or a lure off the line to change over. My tactical knife is used for survival. I guess you are asking what in the world would you need a tactical knife for on the lake. A tactical knife is for survival in the jungle. Well sometimes it is a jungle when you get tangled up on the bank of the river and you have to get out of the boat the brush and trees are thick. No I am not getting my line out of the tree. But there comes a time if you stay on the river to long you have to go to the bank if you know what I mean and there can be snakes found in the brush so your survival knife or tactical knife comes in handy.

A fixed blade knife or daggers sometimes called boot knives or for hunting the only thing about fixed blade knives is you need to have a good pouch or holder for these knives and you want to order or buy fixed blade knives that are not cheap. If I am going to gut a deer my Buck Master or Smith and Wesson fixed blade knife works just fine. So what ever you need a knife for whether fishing or hunting make sure you pick the right knife for the right job. The right blade for the right cut.