Kon-Tiki Bamboo Gaff

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Great job, on those gaffs! How are you securing the "hook" to the blank, before you wrap it?

well, the gaff hook has a bent on the end so, I made a hole on the bamboo pole to insert that part, that way the hook wont slip out when you pull a fish, I also like put a pretty decent amount of glue epoxy all the way along the gaff hook and then the cord, so far so good.

Relly nice Alex, and you started with some nice bamboo too.  Do you know what kind it is?

hey amigo, I ordered some calcutta bamboo poles which are supposedly the ones recommended to be used for fishing Gaffs because they have the walls of the pole 3x or more thicker than other species of bamboo.

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Relly nice Alex, and you started with some nice bamboo too.  Do you know what kind it is?

hey amigo, I ordered some calcutta bamboo poles which are supposedly the ones recommended to be used for fishing Gaffs because they have the walls of the pole 3x or more thicker than other species of bamboo.

I thought so.  Calcutta is hard to find these days but there is a guy in Huntington Beach that sells it.  When I was a kid in South Texas every bait or tackle shop would have calcutta cane poles for sale.

Good thing that little storm is supposed to fizzle out.