Ouch! That had to hurt. You bring up a good point not about having some quality wire cutters in the boat for just this incident. The tempered steel and stainless hooks out there now don’t cut easy like you said.
I’ve got some old, big circle hooks in the shop. Going to test my stash of cutters and make sure some are in the boat.
Your hook up makes me almost embarrassed to post mine from Eagle Nest Lake in New Mexico last month.

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