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Originally Posted by calicohunter31
One last question. How do you keep the shockcord on your gun even if you have a reel on it?
thanks for the answers
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You don't keep the shockcord. The main purpose of that thing is to just provide some stretch when you are stringing up the gun. With a reel, you just reel up line to keep the gun strung up. If a fish hits the end of the line hard, it just pulls line off of the reel, so there is no "shock" to worry about. I keep my drag set just tight enough to keep the gun strung up, and then when I hit a fish, I usually release all the drag and provide drag by grabbing the line with with my hand.
Just to provide more detail of rigging- the usual thing is to put a snap-swivel or pigtail swivel on the end of the reel line, and attach that to a loop in the rear end of the mono shooting line.
Also, you don't fight the fish from the reel as you would with a rod and reel. You just pull line in hand over hand until you get the fish under control, and then reel the line back onto the reel later.
If a fish has reel line strung out all through a kelp bed, there is no way you can follow that path, either with the gun from one end or the fish from the other end. So the usual thing to is brain the fish, then detach the shooting line from the reel line and bring the fish straight up. Then after you have it strung or otherwise under control, you go find your gun floating, and reel the line back through the kelp.
