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Originally Posted by jtkwest
thanks i like the simplicity, one ques.: when you are swimming along with bouy towing behind, wont pressure from float possibly unhook it from release?i mean to say weight of float would pull towards rear of gun, possibly dislodging it ? obviously not , but why?
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Yes, it can happen. In California, it most often happens when our little egg size floats that we use in kelp beds get hung in the kelp.
But if it happens, so what? Where is the line? Its right next to you, held in tension by whatever pulled the bungee off of the line release, and you reach out and put it back on.
I once had a Riffe Island and used Riffe's breakaway in which the rubber thingee takes a 90 degree turn through a hole in the butt of the gun. It had worked fine a lot of times, but then the time when I shot my first yellowfin tuna, it didn't work. The rubber thing stuck in the hole, the gun was almost torn from my hands, and the slip tip pulled out of the tuna.
A few weeks later I was in Hawaii and went out on Daryl Wong's boat. Every gun on the boat was rigged with the Hawaiian breakaway. He is a world class diver and has shot big fish all over the world. I switched.
If it pulls off too much, use thicker bungee cord and cut it shorter.
The only way it can pull off is if the shooting line stretches. If you are using steel cable, its not going to stretch. If you are using mono, it can stretch.
