My gaff didn't float!!!! - Kayak Fishing Adventures on Big Water’s Edge

FlyFishinYakr · 07-20-2015, 03:19 PM

Sorry to hear about your gaff...That sucks

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I'll bet it was a PROMAR wasn't it? Doesn't sound like the tail loop fared much better.
Also glad to read you weren't injured by the tail too. (You're lucky you weren't accidentally "smacked" by the tail!).
FFY

radastaff · 07-20-2015, 04:05 PM

I had the exact same plan
glad I cleaned reels instead
at home

attached floaty to my gaff
maybe we could fill our promars with that spray foam inside the handle?

FISH11 · 07-20-2015, 04:56 PM

Bet if you had targeted Threshers then you would have caught Tuna, right!

taggermike · 07-20-2015, 05:38 PM

Most things made to float are made to float at the surface. If the shark took the gaff down too far the floatation material may have been crushed or a water proof air chamber may have failed. Threshers are just tough to handle. Mike

DanaPT · 07-20-2015, 09:03 PM

Yeah... tail slapped by a thresher with 2 or 3 sets of treble hooks sounds like a disaster.

PapaDave · 07-21-2015, 09:33 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by FISH11

Bet if you had targeted Threshers then you would have caught Tuna, right!

I have a habit of doing that...

07-20-2015, 04:56 PM	#3
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07-20-2015, 03:19 PM	#1
FlyFishinYakr Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Nor Cal...30 min from Bodega/Tomales Bay, 1hr from Clear Lake, 2+ hr to Berryessa & the Delta Posts: 729	Sorry to hear about your gaff...That sucks . I'll bet it was a PROMAR wasn't it? Doesn't sound like the tail loop fared much better. Also glad to read you weren't injured by the tail too. (You're lucky you weren't accidentally "smacked" by the tail!). FFY

07-20-2015, 04:05 PM	#2
radastaff Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 314	I had the exact same plan glad I cleaned reels instead at home attached floaty to my gaff maybe we could fill our promars with that spray foam inside the handle?

07-20-2015, 05:38 PM	#4
taggermike Senior Member Join Date: May 2007 Location: Chula Vista Posts: 1,589	Most things made to float are made to float at the surface. If the shark took the gaff down too far the floatation material may have been crushed or a water proof air chamber may have failed. Threshers are just tough to handle. Mike

07-20-2015, 09:03 PM	#5
DanaPT Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: South OC Posts: 1,606	Yeah... tail slapped by a thresher with 2 or 3 sets of treble hooks sounds like a disaster.