you see what they want for just bending a piece piece o'wire??!!!
ridiculous!....... (but we're talking selling to sport fisherman here i guess)
haven't tried mine yet...... it's home made but exactly like their big-game dehooker
the ony way you can tell it's not the geniune artlicle is if you look real close you'll see it's obvious the pigtail curl wasn't done in a machine...... other'n that, Perfect!
had mine made 40" long with 5/16" SS rod ......... i wanted 40" because the bottom of my feet are above the waterline in my boat and i won't have to bend over as far
i don't think you'd wanna go over 40" with straight 5/16" rod because there'll be a bit too much flex with anything made longer....... 3/8" rod might work but would be too heavy at those lengths without being mounted on a pole handle IMO
when you start using long gaff handles it's also gonna turn into a 2-man job
i may eventually have some made up for poles in 5/16 and 3/8" just for S&Gs (and big green blues

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if you have one made, the trick is to make sure you have that crook in the rod so it'll put the center o'the pigtail's circle dead-center of a straight line drawn along the entire rod.............. even if you're making a short pigtail for a pole