A clipper for cutting and severing a portion of bait material preventing direct
contact of a user with the former. The two elongated pivotally mounted members
include cutting assemblies ends that cooperate to come towards each other in a
substantially parallel fashion. Peripheral walls with distal sharpened edges have
to cut into a bait severing a portion that is lodged between complementing cavities
formed by the peripheral walls. Slots in the base plates extend towards their respective
centers upon which the peripheral wall are perpendicularly mounted permit a user
to manipulate a fishing hook. The hook is removed through one of the cutouts in
the peripheral walls that coincide with the entrance to the slots. A user can then
hold the bait portion with one hand while safely manipulating the hook with the
other hand to set his/her fishing bait.