Securing a Hook in a Vise to Make Clouser Minnows

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ALVIN DEDEAUX: So, the first step here, tying our Clouser Minnow is going to be to mash the barb down and put the barb in the vise. Take your pliers, kinda get it situated right over the barb with a hook and then just kinda give it a nice squeeze. A lot of times you'll here that barb pop as it flattens out. The reason we mashed the barb down is for several reasons. One is if we're fishing catch and release, it's much easier to release the fish if it doesn't have the barb on the hook. And maybe even more important for some people is it's also a lot easier to release the fisherman if somebody hooks himself or one of their fishing partners or their guide, it's a lot easier to pull the hook out of somebody's ear if there's no barb on it. So, next thing we do is adjust our vise a little bit here so that this big heavy wire hook will fit, crank it down with the rear adjustor. And also, you want to try to make sure, especially with the rotary vise, is that you get the hook level. So when you start spinning it, the hook shank doesn't wobble so when you got it nice and level, crank it down. And there we go. We're ready to start tying.

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