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Quick Karl
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 06, 2015 6:06 pm    Post subject: How the heck... Reply with quote
... do you land a big fish from a pier????
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 06, 2015 6:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
With a pier net or walk em back down the pier to the shore!!
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 06, 2015 6:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Back in the 60's when I was a kid, I saw more than a few big reds and such walked shoreward on the pier, and back then there were TWO other T's besides that on the end!!! Shocked

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PostPosted: Mon Jul 06, 2015 7:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
landlocked beachbum wrote:
Back in the 60's when I was a kid, I saw more than a few big reds and such walked shoreward on the pier, and back then there were TWO other T's besides that on the end!!! Shocked

Karl, check your messages...... Cool


Message checked and replied!

I tend to fish a bit lighter line than most folks do, so hoisting a fish of any size up on a pier could get tricky if I happen to luck into something large. I hadn't seen a "pier net" before so now I am going to have to do a lil research and figure out what to buy.

In Hawaii, when fishing from high cliff, they had something they called a slide-gaff that was hooked over your fishing line and slid down to the hooked fish -- a few quick tugs on the rope would, eventually, gaff the fish, and then pulled up via rope! I've seen 50 to 70-lb fish landed that way, though I have never been lucky enough to be that guy! Laughing
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 06, 2015 7:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
That's REALLY weird Karl, because even though I've never never seen or heard of a slide gaff, I had something similar in mind! Cool
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 06, 2015 7:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
landlocked beachbum wrote:
That's REALLY weird Karl, because even though I've never never seen or heard of a slide gaff, I had something similar in mind! Cool


Scroll down halfway on this page http://www.tokunagastore.com/Menu/UluaFishingGear.htm

There you will see the quintessential "Slide Gaff"
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 06, 2015 7:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
You can find your big drop net at Roy's here in Corpus. It's basically an extra extra large crab net.
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 06, 2015 9:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Go with a big drop net. You can get a decent one for $30 . The tougher ones cost more but are worth it
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 06, 2015 9:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I'd go with the net just because it doesn't impale the fish. You might not keep it! Wink
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 07, 2015 10:14 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
landlocked beachbum wrote:
I'd go with the net just because it doesn't impale the fish. You might not keep it! Wink


The net is great for the catch photo and release. If your not going to eat why kill it?
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 07, 2015 11:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
I fish with fairly light tackle and I've never had a problem hoisting eating sized trout over the rail. When I broke my second rod tip trying to get fish that were too big up over the rail, I bought a pier net. I haven't had a chance to use it yet, but if I have any doubt, I'm going to use it.

As for a line gaff, if you're on a pier, and you've hooked a fish too big to pop over the rail, it may be too big to keep, or at least, too big to eat. If you gaff an oversized fish, that could be a very expensive fish if the state happens to come around. If its that big of a fish, it probably needs to be back in the water making little fish. Just sayin....
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 07, 2015 11:14 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Dirtylove wrote:
I fish with fairly light tackle and I've never had a problem hoisting eating sized trout over the rail. When I broke my second rod tip trying to get fish that were too big up over the rail, I bought a pier net. I haven't had a chance to use it yet, but if I have any doubt, I'm going to use it.

As for a line gaff, if you're on a pier, and you've hooked a fish too big to pop over the rail, it may be too big to keep, or at least, too big to eat. If you gaff an oversized fish, that could be a very expensive fish if the state happens to come around. If its that big of a fish, it probably needs to be back in the water making little fish. Just sayin....


I have no intention of using a slide-gaff, precisely for the reasons you and Ironmanstan have noted.

That is why I asked how y'all get your fish over the pier rail Laughing
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 07, 2015 2:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I used a large green crabnet with steel rings to bring up a 12lb black drum on bob hall pier last year. Worked great
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