Fishing by yourself can be challenging. When I got this fish close enough I tried to gaff it but the gaff was knocked out of my hand into the water and started floating away. I put the rod in a rod holder, with the fish still on the line and started swimming after my gaff. By the time I reached it and turned around to swim back, the boat was a long way from me. But, I made it back, reeled in the fish, got it in the box and started laughing my butt off because the only people who knew what had just happened were the people on a passing cruise ship that might have witnessed it.