gaffing
Hooking large catch
Gaffing is using a gaff—a large hook on a pole—to land fish too heavy to lift by line alone: After a twenty-minute fight, they started gaffing the tuna.
In theater and film, gaffing refers to the work of a gaffer, the chief electrician who manages lighting equipment.
The term also covers the act of rigging games or cheating, from the sense of gaff as a trick device.
Recreational hook-and-line pursuit
- hookingCatching with curved end
- landingDescent's final moment
- boatingWatercraft recreation
- harpoonBarbed spear for whales
spearfishing · trawling · netting · catch · bait · lure · reel · rod
Catching with curved end
- snaggingGetting caught on something
- snaringCatching by entanglement
- seizingTaking forcible possession
- graspingGreedy for wealth
nabbing · securing · landing · snatching · spearing · impaling · piercing · catching
angling
Recreational hook-and-line pursuit
harpoon · spearfishing · trawling · netting · catch · bait · lure · reel · rod · tackle
hooking
Catching with curved end
grasping · nabbing · securing · landing · snatching · spearing · impaling · piercing · catching · pulling
conning
Defrauding through deception
scamming · tricking · cheating · duping · deceiving · hoodwinking · bamboozling · rigging · fixing · manipulating
mocking
Scornfully imitating or ridiculing
- ridiculingMocking with contempt
- ribbingAffectionate verbal teasing
- roastingCooking with dry heat
teasing · jeering · heckling · taunting · needling · razzing · goading · jabbing · sniping · deriding
- fishing actionscast, casting, reel, reeling, hook
- traditional fishingfish hooks, fish traps, spearfishing, gillnetting, netting
gaffingreleasing
Allowing to escape
catch-and-release · freeing · catch and release · letting go