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Updated: 05/02/2014 08:00:01AM
My beef with bridge gaffs
WATERLINE PHOTO BY MATT STEVENS
This snook was pulled up with the help of a pier net, which is a much more effective and safer tool than a gaff.
Matt Stevens
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As I was fishing the U.S. 41 bridge recently, I watched as another angler hooked and fought a cobia, landed it with a flying gaff, measured it and threw it back in Charlotte Harbor.
That scene left me scratching my head.
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