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2. Fishing gaff - Wikipedia

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   A standard-sized gaff used in angling Fishing with a long pole gaff. In fishing, a gaff is a handheld pole with a sharp hook or sideway spike on the distal end, which is used to swing and stab into the body of a large fish like a pickaxe (ideally, the tip of the hook/spike is placed under the fish's backbone) and then pull the fish out of the water like using a pike pole.

3. Hook (hand tool) - Wikipedia

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   A hook is a hand tool used for securing and moving loads. It consists of a round wooden handle with a strong metal hook about 20 cm (8 inches) long projecting at a right angle from the center of the handle. The appliance is held in a closed fist with the hook projecting between two fingers.

4. Fishing tackle - Wikipedia

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   Fishing with a hook and line is called angling. In addition to the use of the hook and line used to catch a fish, a heavy fish may be landed by using a landing net or a hooked pole called a gaff. Trolling is a technique in which a fishing lure on a line is drawn through the water. Snagging is a technique where the object is to hook the fish in ...

5. Hakapik - Wikipedia

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   A hakapik (Norwegian: gaff) is a club, of Norwegian design, similar to a fishing gaff, used for killing and moving seals.The hakapik is a multipurpose hunting tool—a heavy wooden club, with a hammer head (used to crush a seal's skull), and a hook (used to drag the carcass) on the end.

6. Snagging - Wikipedia

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   Snagging chinook salmon. Snagging, also known as snag fishing, snatching, snatch fishing, jagging (Australia), or foul hooking, is a fishing technique for catching fish that uses sharp grappling hooks tethered to a fishing line to externally pierce (i.e. "snag") into the flesh of nearby fish, without needing the fish to swallow any hook with its mouth like in angling.

7. Wooden halibut hook - Wikipedia

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   The second phase compared the actual fishing performance of the brass čibu.d against "a standard 16/0 circle hook and paired 8/0 circle hooks". The conclusion was that the fishing performance was equivalent and that "the improved catching performance of čibu.d on halibut and reduced bycatch compared to other popular approaches can be achieved ...