I haven't given up on fish grippers, but I have given up on this one:

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I got it on sale last summer before my Q trip and brought it along.  My expectations were not all that high and yet this still managed to come in far beneath them.  On a sacale of 1 to 10 I rank it a 0 (zero).  Other than the fact that it was incredibly clumsy to try to hold the jaws in the open position long enough to lip the fish with it, it also completely failed to adequately grip any fish over 2#.

After the 3rd attempt at using it, I threw it in the bottom of my personal pack.  When I got home, it went straight into the trash because I could not in good conscience even give it away to some poor unsuspecting sap.

This year, maybe I'll spring for the Boga, or just keep lip-landing my walleyes, trout, and pike like before.   ::)