[Blesum]

Hi Bill,

Thank you for the informative replies. The person who set up my float system/gun came strongly recommended by several local spearos. Mark over at James Joseph near the San Diego Airport. He seems to know his stuff and said the system he put together for me would be good enough for up to 40 pound Yellowtails.

Seeing that I landed a 50 pound White Sea Bass on a cheap coffee grinder of a reel with old 20 pound mono last May, I figure this set up should be fine for any WSB's I might run across. How many pounds is the world record WSB anyhow?

So let me get this straight - For serious kelp hunting, just run a straight float line with maybe a tiny float at one end? Then when a big fish is shot (breakaway system or no?) one just waits until the end of the line comes screaming by, and grab onto that for a ride? I'd be pretty nervous of losing my gun/spear/line doing that.

I do get my line hung up occassionally in the kelp forrests but nothing serious because the kelp barely makes it to the surface. I also swim straight and adjust accordingly based on where my line is going to drift with the current at the bottom. I've only broke off one strand before - the other times the line floats up and out when I'm on the surface pulling lightly on it.

I have more problems with my line getting stuck under rock overhangs.

-Blesum