Boathook harpoon gaff combination

You could fabricate any of the two on an aluminum alloy pole yourself by buying the end fittings and mounting them, but all three???

OTOH, two of those fittings, the harpoon and gaff, would be very dangerous to have on the back end of a pole being used for something else!

I, for one, wouldn't want to be behind someone who using a pole for something else with a gaff or harpoon on the end near me.

Maybe the pole types available come with one end fitting only for a good reason?

Next project: Multi-purpose pole with boat hook, gaff, harpoon, .410 shotgun (for Halibut), clam gun, and walking stick.

Will make you invulnerable to muggers. No concealed carry permit required!!! :lol:

YMMV!

Joe. :teeth :thup
 
I have a Shurhold pole, which I have Gaff and boathook attachments for. It would be easy to take one of the blank extenders and add a harpboon to it.
 
I have a Shurhold pole, which I have Gaff and boathook attachments for. It would be easy to take one of the blank extenders and add a harpboon to it.
 
Joe: "Next project: Multi-purpose pole with boat hook, gaff, harpoon, .410 shotgun (for Halibut), clam gun, and walking stick.

Will make you invulnerable to muggers. No concealed carry permit required!!! Laughing "

If it comes with a gimbaled cup holder and wi-fi, it could revolutionize shore hikes. ;)

We always have spearguns onboard, but never considered using them as boathooks or for shooting a dockline. I have surface shot a fish before to make landing it easier with a slip-tip.
 
Will-C":27k91dc9 said:
Clam gun? I have been going about clamming in all the wrong ways. :D
D.D.
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Dave-

IIRC, in the PNW, they have a long blade, hollow tube with a handle for digging clams like the geoduck ("gooey-duck") clams with long necks that lie deep in the sand and mud. The clam gun looks a lot like a post hole digger, really.

I've always thought the "geoduck" name was a crazy monicker, and calling a tubular clam extractor a "gun" was something to be done at a criminal trial of some sorts by the prosecution. Hyperbole at work, again!

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Joe. :teeth :thup
 
Thanks Joe. You learn something new everyday. I thought maybe the west coast clams are so fast you had to shoot them to take em down. :oops:
D.D.
 
Dave-

Funny!

If we can get a total of 6 different tips for the pole, we can make it into a revolver model, with a rotating multiple end piece/magazine.

A true "six-shooter" for marine use.

Will probably require a license to own and use, and especially to carry concealed.

Unless it's totally outlawed, then only the bad guys will have them.

And even if they remain legal, a shortened / sawed off one will make you into a felon.

Deja' Vu! :tux

Joe. :teeth :thup
 
I'm thinking for some, maybe a roach clip and combination blunt, charcoal grill lighter. How about a solar panel and some jumper cables while you working on the prototype. Maybe a telescope for celestial navigation. Might as well make two and slap them on holders on your trailer for boat guides. Now that's is for the boater who has everything. Maybe the clam gun with ultra sonic capabilities that would bring the clams up to the top for you. I think we might be on to something here.
D.D.
 
While you are making that clam gun. think about making it laser guided, might be cleaner and faster :shock:

Harvey
SleepyC :moon

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Clam guns on Clatsop beaches work well, perhaps because our sand is coarse and not sticky or muddy, as shown in the photo. Ocean Shores, Long Beach Peninsula, same kind of sand as ours.
 
Well I sort of got lucky, I found online a combination boat hook, gaff, and scrub brush which I ordered they are interchangeable, and screw in. I will see if I can find someone to make a harpoon shaft for it. I don't like the idea of having a gun on board to dispatch a halibut, too many things can go wrong, and there are horror stories out of alaska of people shooting the halibut on the floor of their boat...... halibut loose in a boat is very dangerous. I harpoon the halibut, after it has settled, I throw a rope around it's tail feed it through the gils then pull it tight till the halibut is in a U shape and tie it......it then can be pulled into the boat. I have also caught smaller halibut where I have removed the head and innards........thrown them overboard and put the halibut into my cooler to watcch it bang around.........wondering where I would shoot it.......the body or the parts that were slowly sinking to the bottom of the ocean.
 
We also have the Shurhold boathook/gaff/brush. Very useful.

FWIW, we've caught lots of sizable halibut, up to 120lb (bigger than 100 lb we almost always let go) without a harpoon or gun, just a wireman's gaff (big shark hook with a poly line tied to it and an eye spliced into the other end) and a leaded fish bonker to subdue them.

We bring them up to the side of the boat, cleat off and then slip the wireman's gaff into their lower jaw, and lean over and hang on for a while, as they thrash themselves until they're a bit tired out. Then I whack the top of their head with the bonker, anywhere from a few times to a dozen or two, and all is well. I bring them into the boat and cut the gills to bleed them out. Not sure what the best way to bleed them would be in a C-Dory - our boat has a draining cockpit deck and a washdown hose. Can't recall how we handled that on our CD22.

Especially if they're big, I do the gill cutting quickly and carefully, wary that they do still flip around some in the cockpit before they're totally dead, but generally it's no big deal as long as dogs and small children aren't close.

In this picture I used the eye of the wireman's gaff line to grab the 120lb butt's tail so I could flip it around in the cockpit - they're slippery, and a big one's hard to re-position

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Leon":1dsoym64 said:
I don't like the idea of having a gun on board to dispatch a halibut, too many things can go wrong, and there are horror stories out of alaska of people shooting the halibut on the floor of their boat...... halibut loose in a boat is very dangerous.
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They call that cleansing of the gene pool! Here the story goes the canadians shoot the fish after they are in the boat.

:lol: :lol: :wink:

Have FUN!!
 
tsturm":3arb9zw8 said:
Leon":3arb9zw8 said:
I don't like the idea of having a gun on board to dispatch a halibut, too many things can go wrong, and there are horror stories out of alaska of people shooting the halibut on the floor of their boat...... halibut loose in a boat is very dangerous.
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They call that cleansing of the gene pool! Here the story goes the canadians shoot the fish after they are in the boat.

:lol: :lol: :wink:

Have FUN!!
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Hey careful now us Canucks know a few things about fishing too eh! Lol. Actually I usually just bleed out my Hali's after they have been harpooned and are still over the side with a quick but careful slice or two inside the gills. This keeps the boat relatively clean after you do haul them over the side and subdues them rather quickly as well. This would be a bit harder with a large fish but here in Canada there is a size restriction in place so this is not much of a problem.
 
The halibut shown being shot in my fishing pictures wasn't quite dead when we brought it in. It slowly lifted head and tail and took one tremendous pound to the floor before we pounced on it with fish clubs to save our boat. It looked like the St. Valentine's Day massacre on board. My brother was going to take another picture, but his camera lens had been slimed beyond use. Been there, done that. Now, I just semi-catch and release.

Mark
 
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