Magnum hybrid or mahi gun

[seaman]

Originally Posted by norcal

i have the 63" magnum hybrid on order now. i am 6',1" tall so the legnth is proportional, daryl is making it with a 4 or 5 band muzzle option. i wanted to be able to use it for some blue water and around the reef downgrading power and only using 3 bands. i will let you all know how it feels when i get it...

Wow, i'm jealous now, a 63"Mag, is such a beauty, send some pics of both, the gun and your catch!!!

[seaman]

Originally Posted by icarus pacific

I have three Hybrids- a 45" titanium, a 50" carbon and a carbon MH and they've pretty much replaced my wood guns excepting my two big Alexanders and my 58" homebuilt YT and WSB gun.

They're easy to swing without much effort that translates into spooked fish, they wind around the kelp nice and quiet and they've never failed to hit what they're pointed at. Short of shortening the bands on the 60 and winding on Mori's 2.5 mm line on the Omer 50, it came ready to slay.

I'm bringing all of them down to Baja in a couple weeks to dive with Dale and I have zero doubt that they'll perform as great as up here.

What's your ideal set up with your guns, i mean shaft-band correlation?

[icarus pacific]

With all the guns, I can switch between a 9/32 or a 5/16 shaft. The small hybid almost always has a 9/32 Hawaiian flopper and either a single 5/8 band or two 9/16 bands. The 50 usually has a 9/32 flopper with three 9/16 bands but will take 2-3 5/8 bands and a 5/16 shaft, and the MH has three 5/8 bands and a 5/16 shafts only.

[seaman]

I guess you are very happy with the 9|32 and the 9|16' s as your daily option..

[icarus pacific]

That would be correct. Unless you want to talk about my JBL Custom with 3/8 shafts and 5/8 bands...

[seaman]

Actually, Do you think that a Jbl could improve with thinner shaft and fewer bands?

[icarus pacific]

Not for what I built it for.

[seaman]

Hey man, tell us about it, and if you can post some pics...

[icarus pacific]

It's just an old pre-JBL Voit Custom with a beef'd trigger and the muzzle reamed out for a 3/8" shaft with the tang cut down to fit into the trigger housing; and the bands are very short 5/8" with metal XL wishbones from JBL. It's for use in the holes up here for ling cod, cabezone and halibut out in the low viz sand/gravel.

[rigdvr]

I have a 50" cf hybrid, 55" semi enclosed cf hybrid, and a 63" super magnum. They are all great guns. I lost my 60" ono like Bills in Katrina and Ive also owned a 57" MG special Daryl builds. I really prefer the hybrids but I'll break down my personal thoughts on them.

The Ono is hands down a better "true" bluewater gun. If I were going to swim over a pinnacle all day that would be my gun. However the hybrid is easier to handle in and out of the water. If I were going to Costa Rica and would be riding around all day on a transom waiting for the captain to yell "go, go, go! Tuna at 50'!" then you would be hard pressed to bead the super mag.

Even though I replaced my Ono with the super mag, I will probably get another Ono as well eventually. As good as the hybrids are, the Ono is dakine for bluewater.