I have a pair of stainless steel tongs that I use for deboning salmon and I wanted a second pair of tongs for fishing but they are no longer made so I gave them a try. send them back. The problem is that they don't close at the tip - to the point where they won't snag on a fishhook. So they might be ok if you don't need to close them completely, but to me they don't even deserve the 1 star minimum.