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Blue water float and bungee targeting big fish

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Stoned em

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Hey all,

Looking for those with blue water experience to help give me some advice.
I'm heading to Niue (South Pacific island) in search for big pelagic fish, common fish that frequent the area are wahoo, yellowfin tuna, mahi mahi, dog tooth tuna, sailfish and marlin. The water depth where the fads are located is around 300m.

I've got a Andre euro 145 ET rigged as slip tip breakaway that I'll be taking with me with a 2ATM
Float and a second blowup float (keep weight down for flight)

What breaking strain bungee would you recommend? I was thinking of rigging a 30m bungee-2ATM float- 10m
Bungee/hardline - second float.

Advice is much appreciated
 
I think most vinyl and rubber bungee floatlines usually have in the neighborhood of 1000lbs test core, and guys use them on big fish (like 100lb+ tuna) with appropriate floats.

I have seen a couple different configs, common out here is a long vinyl line (30M) with a small hard float attached that will not crush, and then if you think REAL big fish are about you add a shorter rubber line with a larger inflatable float like a 2atm tailing that. For waters where fish have to be recovered very quickly because of sharks, I have seen some specialized systems that are basically giant bogey boards with ratchet systems to haul the fish up...

With longer lines you can get away with smaller floats. I have a 50M line I use in bluewater, anytime I have a float on it it is mostly a courtesy to anyone at the surface, although we don't see 100# tuna except a couple times in a lifetime out here.
 
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