>>2619997Pliers are absolutely necessary. Removing hooks from fish mouths, lifting pots, removing ticks, essential for various repairs in the field, the wire cutters are extremely useful. Also, I can't imagine anyone seriously ever found the weight of a Leatherman to be an issue. Picrel comes to mind. I have never found swiss army knives to be useful at all outside of the mediocre tweezers and the puny little butter knife blade for cutting up or peeling fruit. They are literally inferior to Leathermans in every way, from the soft and shitty blade steel, the lack of a pair of good pliers to the slippery plastic body and two handed manipulation only.
