I made a homemade gaff that I hope will work after going to west marine and thinking the cheapest gaff at $45 was too expensive. So I bought a rubberized bicycle storage hook from Home Depot, stripped off the rubber, mounted it to a broken cue stick and grinded down the tip to make a point. Hope it works!
Rubberized hook:
Stripped of rubber:
Screwed into cue stick (it fit perfectly, just unscrew the bottom half and screw this into the top):
Ground down to a point with a Dremel:
And finished off, it's decently sharp, I might sand it down a bit more:
I'll probably add a handle at some point as well