RE: Gaff is really too close to your leg ...
Yes but most importantly I saved the meat with a clean belly-gaff!
Here's another "did I really do that" photo from 2006, holding up a soupfin
for a picture. You would think that I really didn't need that leg.
And another from 2004, where I'm 'noodling' for a great white, this time it's my
right leg though.

Notice its the same gaff that I used yesterday.