Strange to say, the large shark, at least ten feet long, was completely smothered under the mass of fish and had to be gaffed and hauled overboard by main strength.
I had justgaffed a small horned ray, a devil-fish, about four feet across its wing-like pectoral fins.
Sidenote: A Whipparee] [Sidenote: The Stingaree] They soon gaffedhim and deposited him on top of my tarpon.
On the third day he gaffed another seal as it floated past on a cake of ice.
The young seals aregaffed without trouble: the old ones are shot.
His fame has long ago gone throughout all Speyside for skill in the use of the gaff: about eight years ago I was witness of the calm, swift dexterity with which he gaffed what I believe was his last fish.
Before he had been in the water twenty minutes the old lord was in a fish; his gillie, old Dallas, who could throw a fine line in spite of the whisky, gaffed it scientifically, and I was sent home rejoicing with a 15 lb.
They were going to take her and then rape her as they did the cities of Spain, and they would if Jackson had not gaffed their very vitals out in that night attack of December twenty-third.
In half a minute more I drew him to within a yard of my side, gaffed him near the tail, and carried him up the gravel-bank under my arm.
At another pool I tried again, and almost at the first cast hooked an eighteen-pounder, which Anders gaffed after about twenty-minutes' play.
In this position, with the exercise of proper caution and skill, the fish can generally be brought near enough to be gaffed long before he is the least exhausted.
Arthur was silent directly, and just then his fright was at its height with the conger that Dick had hooked, and that Will gaffed and hauled in.
Dick in the most disinterested way; "Arthur held him and I gaffed him.
Captain Dan reached over with a gaff--and all but gaffed that swordfish before he sank too deep.
As soon as she was gaffed we looked up the first fish; he had turned quite black, and was a gruesome sight.
But I killed it, all the same, on a nine-ounce rod, and my Indian canoe-man gaffed it.
When the mascalonge shows signs of weakness and can be drawn alongside, it should be gaffed at once.
One day the little maid fell into the sea, but Bucca held her up until Uncle Malachi reached his gaff, and gaffed her in.
The fishermen gaffed the halibut and pulled him into the dory, though it nearly swamped them, for the fish weighed over three hundred and fifty pounds.
As soon as the salmon saw the boat it tried to break away, but its captor had caught a glimpse of the fish, and seeing that it was not too large for speedy action, reeled in without loss of time, and gaffed him promptly.
In the silence of despair I resigned myself as he smote again; he actually now gaffed the fish, but seemed too paralysed to lift him up the low bank.
The man had made his observations (literally throwing a light upon the subject), concluded therefrom behind what particular rock the salmon was taking refuge, groped and waded his way to the spot, and gaffed the fish at the first shot.
Once I gaffed a beautiful salmon of at least eighteen pounds, on the Usk, landed him triumphantly, and stood admiring him while the fly was taken out of his mouth.
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