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Originally posted by Iyadiver
Doyle,
I am your closest neighbor in this board and welcome to Deeper Blue. Scuba or freedive you are welcome. Where Nesim comes from you won't believe the kind of fish his place has. I was in Dubai oil rigs a few months back and I was stunned by the numbers of fish and the lack of fear it showed to divers....Oman I heard is even better. I seen video footage of traditional fishermen in Oman catching groupers and my God....they are so plentiful. Malaysia is probably as barren as my place 30 meters up, I know what you mean.
Your C3 with 4 bands has enough juice to nail Cobia even that big if you can get close enough. If that detachable spearhead is the flopper type, get rid of it and get the Ice Pick instead. Cobia has quite a tough body and skin, it fights tough too. At two meters tip to fish, that big cobia is a dead fish. You must get a stone shot, either whacked the lateral line or get an angle where you can shoot the brain. Shoot the brain from the front but not too much angle down, get the angle so that the shaft lead from the brain to the ass, this way if you miss the brain, there will still be lots of damage to other nervous system.
A reel can be good for you, choose the 150 feet/1000lbs line, forget the 500lbs for wrecks. If the viz is decent say at 10 meters, it is quite safe to use the reel. Kevlar can be cut with ease with a sharp knife. Your shooting line shoot be the 500 lbs cable for wreck, not the original Riffe black mono, it will fail on sharp wrecks. If you don't have a reel, hold the 5" bungie swivel of the gun when fighting the fish. That 400lbs Dacron inside the 5" bungie shivel can break with fish at that size, this is the weak link.
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Good luck and stay safe. Just remember, no fish is worth saving a gun if your life can be in danger. If you have no reel, improvise a 10mm rope of +-10 meters where you can tie to the gun butt and use that to tie off somewhere to the wreck if there is ever a need. Just never clipped a gun to your BCD .....never...
Have fun Datok Doyle..........
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Terima Kasih Pak Ya,
Now that's exactly the kind of advice I was after - thanks man. I think I can see where the gaps in my plan were previously.
I think I'll tie the gun into the wreck before shooting. Maybe do one dive in the morning and run a long 1/4" line the length of the wreck where the cobia hang out. Second dive come down and clip the gun to the line via about 10mtrs of 10mm line through the hole in the butt as you suggest and wait for the cobia. If they don't turn up I can drop the gun and try again on the third dive.
I've always seen them in the same place so this might just work, if it doesn't I'll try the reel.
Thanks again - this is sounding more and more like a real hunt!
