Thanks guys, that dog goes everywhere with me, even to the office every day. 10 months and 85 pounds. He did get a 10/0 thru the ear a few weeks ago from an islander rig that was hanging off the chair. Luckily we hadn't left the dock yet and we had bolt cutters. Needless to say, no more rigs are allowed to hang from the chair, he knows better than to bite them but walking by in the pitch black is a different story. Wife was not happy I was going to leave the hook in and mash it into a circle so he looked like a pirate with a gamakatsu earing