Since the gun I made for my brother-in-law (http://forums.deeperblue.com/diy-homemade/86570-2-more-guns-finished.html) has been sitting dry at my house since I finished it, since he only paid for the cost of the materials, and since he owes me a favor or two:blackeye, i figured I would take it out for some "R&D"
... As it turns out the gun works VERY well, not sure I want go give it to him now...
We went out on the N side of Maui. Full moon tide so the current was ripping and in the opposite direction that it usually goes... so we ended up getting in on the wrong side of the point. After finning against the current for some time I found a spot to anchor the float where we could hold on and breathe up. When we were ready to drop leg go of the float and drift back over your intended drop zone.
First shot with the gun was this Mu, one of my biggest to date just shy of 9lbs. Mu is also known as a "Big eye emperor" and is by far one of the hardest to shoot in Hawaii, very curious but very cautious. They tend to always know the range of your gun and stay just outside of it. You have to completely hide your body from them and act totally disinterested, kinda the same technique I used on girls growing up... Well, on this day it seemed they were underestimating the range of this new enclosed track 120. The first drop on the pile produced this one, and the second one just a tad smaller which I gave to my dive partner as he was unable to land one for himself.
As I was heading to the surface with the second mu a pack of about 8 40-50lb uluas came in to investigate. Circled me a few times and headed back out. Figures, this was the second time at this spot where I had a nice fish on and some even nicer fish came in to check me out. The last time I had stoned a 20lb Uku when a school of 20+ onos came in and circled me while I struggled to pull the shaft out of the fishes skull.
... As it turns out the gun works VERY well, not sure I want go give it to him now...We went out on the N side of Maui. Full moon tide so the current was ripping and in the opposite direction that it usually goes... so we ended up getting in on the wrong side of the point. After finning against the current for some time I found a spot to anchor the float where we could hold on and breathe up. When we were ready to drop leg go of the float and drift back over your intended drop zone.
First shot with the gun was this Mu, one of my biggest to date just shy of 9lbs. Mu is also known as a "Big eye emperor" and is by far one of the hardest to shoot in Hawaii, very curious but very cautious. They tend to always know the range of your gun and stay just outside of it. You have to completely hide your body from them and act totally disinterested, kinda the same technique I used on girls growing up... Well, on this day it seemed they were underestimating the range of this new enclosed track 120. The first drop on the pile produced this one, and the second one just a tad smaller which I gave to my dive partner as he was unable to land one for himself.
As I was heading to the surface with the second mu a pack of about 8 40-50lb uluas came in to investigate. Circled me a few times and headed back out. Figures, this was the second time at this spot where I had a nice fish on and some even nicer fish came in to check me out. The last time I had stoned a 20lb Uku when a school of 20+ onos came in and circled me while I struggled to pull the shaft out of the fishes skull.
