Hey all, first off thanks for all the ideas on this forum. I'm truly jealous that most of you live near the ocean and get to dive reefs and what not.
Forewarning, this is gonna be a pretty long post. I put a lot of effort into it and I plan on getting fairly detailed.
I'm no pro diver or even spearo (yet), but I do know my way around traditional line and rod fishing, and I do like to dive often. I'm in the USAF stationed in Vegas and we have Lake Mead and Willow Beach so we have some stupid clear freshwater around here.
Anyways, decided to make my very first pole spear for carp and striper. Started out with a trip to Home Depot. Picked up a 6 ft lawn stake that has a. 3/8" steel core and covered in a rigid plastic material ($2), picked up some JB weld waterweld ($5) and supposedly waterproof, a galvanized steel threaded sleeve that just fit over the pole ($3), and a galvanized steel cap that threaded on to the sleeve ($2). The only parts missing were 3/8" surgical tubing, some thin paracord, and some 3/16" steel rod, all of which I had laying around.
For the tubing end, I drilled a 3/8" hole in the steel cap and made a stopper out of plastic tube from an old mechanical pencil to tie off the paracord in, then inserted the stopper in the steel sleeve and screwed the cap over the tube with the paracord sticking out. Cut up a #2 pencil into 1/2" lengths and inserted them into the tubing to give it rigidity then tied the paracord to it. Seems super solid.
For the business end, I sharpened three lengths of the aforementioned 3/16" steel rod to a modest tip, then duct taped the middle, applied the jb weld to the bottom of the rods and the area of the rods where they leave the main pole, then duct taped along the entire length of the rods that were in contact with the main pole. End result is pretty solid in my mind. I've punched completely through 4 layers of 175 lb double wall cardboard with it with no damage to the pole or tip, and get some pretty solid spread on the tip as well. Please let me know what you think and if I can make any improvements to it that are obvious. Trying it out for the first time tomorrow!
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Forewarning, this is gonna be a pretty long post. I put a lot of effort into it and I plan on getting fairly detailed.
I'm no pro diver or even spearo (yet), but I do know my way around traditional line and rod fishing, and I do like to dive often. I'm in the USAF stationed in Vegas and we have Lake Mead and Willow Beach so we have some stupid clear freshwater around here.
Anyways, decided to make my very first pole spear for carp and striper. Started out with a trip to Home Depot. Picked up a 6 ft lawn stake that has a. 3/8" steel core and covered in a rigid plastic material ($2), picked up some JB weld waterweld ($5) and supposedly waterproof, a galvanized steel threaded sleeve that just fit over the pole ($3), and a galvanized steel cap that threaded on to the sleeve ($2). The only parts missing were 3/8" surgical tubing, some thin paracord, and some 3/16" steel rod, all of which I had laying around.
For the tubing end, I drilled a 3/8" hole in the steel cap and made a stopper out of plastic tube from an old mechanical pencil to tie off the paracord in, then inserted the stopper in the steel sleeve and screwed the cap over the tube with the paracord sticking out. Cut up a #2 pencil into 1/2" lengths and inserted them into the tubing to give it rigidity then tied the paracord to it. Seems super solid.
For the business end, I sharpened three lengths of the aforementioned 3/16" steel rod to a modest tip, then duct taped the middle, applied the jb weld to the bottom of the rods and the area of the rods where they leave the main pole, then duct taped along the entire length of the rods that were in contact with the main pole. End result is pretty solid in my mind. I've punched completely through 4 layers of 175 lb double wall cardboard with it with no damage to the pole or tip, and get some pretty solid spread on the tip as well. Please let me know what you think and if I can make any improvements to it that are obvious. Trying it out for the first time tomorrow!
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