I've made a pile of fish gaffs (pointy, to be attached to a wooden
handle) and unhooking gaffs (short, blunt, T-handled) for the Port
Medway long-liners from this kind of garage door spring. The
fishermen kept losing them overboard but nobody ever complained that
they broke.
I'd cut off about 8 turns, heat it in the forge, grab with vice grips,
put it over a piece of pipe in the vice and walk away. Enough for a
$100 or so worth of gaffs.
For a bread & butter item, nothing could be better than something that
the user habitually puts down on the rail of a rolling boat. :-)
Alas, inshore fishing ain't what it used to be.
- Mike
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Michael Spencer Nova Scotia, Canada .~.
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mspencer at tallships.ca /( )\
http://home.tallships.ca/mspencer/ ^^-^^