Gaff or Net?

[AYS]

a boga grip is actually a pretty bad idea for halibut. I would net a barely legal over boga gripping it because grabbing it by the mouth allows for it to beat that tail. A barely legal can do some damage, let alone a lunker butt. If your going to get a gaff, take two things into consideratioin. First, get one with a mustad hook. Unless you want to be raplacing it every few trips. A lot of hooks will rust out or are made poorly and will not stick and hold fish. Another thing to consider is a large hook will hold better, but a small gaff hook will be easier to stick in a fish. Check out the Blue Room Special Gaff's at AYS. They are cheaper then the promars, are bright yellow for visibility if you drop it, it floats, it has a mustad gaff, it has a wooden dowel inside for added weight to help sink the hook and to beat fish over the head (works well on lings ), and it is fiberglass so it will last forever. I added a small piece of X-wrap to mine and its just as good now as the day I bought it.