For months I’ve read only praise about the new omer guns, specially the HF and its fancy shaped barrel, so I’ve purchased one size 110HF to use on my trip to Brazil, (at the time I almost went Marwan crazy and bought the triple 90/100/110 but money was short after all the whole family was flying from AK to Brazil). The target that I had in mind was small to medium size jacks and blue fish, these types of fish often is present in large schools so I would be shooting the gun a lot. The HF would not be a shelf gun like my guns in Alaska, since here I only dive for 12 days, since the season is so short, so the guns here seldom get used.
My first impression of the HF still in Alaska, was that the gun was very well made, very nice handle, the reel looked very strong and reliable since it is high quality plastic, I would not have to worry about corrosion problems like I had with the three omer pelagic reels (the aluminum ones). Still in Alaska the only real issue I notice was the barrel made of bare aluminum, that combined with the stainless shaft would make for a very loud shot. But that was the only issue overall the gun looked great and also felt great.
Well it as time for the wet test, down in Brazil the spear fishing day starts at 6:00 am and ends at 8:00 pm or later if we decide to fish at night, very long days with a lots of shooting, one the first day the gun felt great, the shot was really strong (at the first shot I begin to double wrap using the line on the reel), the gun also felt very accurate, I can’t remember if I’ve missed any shots or not (if I did it was definitely my fault), but I’ve certainly made most of the shots, so I’ve landed plenty of small pelagic fish, jacks and pompanos and small barracudas, the gun felt really light and easy to move around, in fact the 110 felt as good as my sporasub 100 as far a mobility goes. The nice metal bridge together with wire loop under muzzle keep the gun tangle free and made reloading really fast. But my first impression was true, the shot of the HF is really loud, so if you plan to fish for shook or any fish that requires a quite shot, you may want to get the carbon model instead of the Aluminum (I don’t own the carbon model yet). I keep hearing my friend winning about my shot spooking his fish (too bad for him ; ) .
On the second dive day, came the first medium size fish, I was going to a rock to look for groupers when passing a place where the waves were breaking, I’ve spotted a couple of nice size pompanos I’ve nailed the largest one good size 25 lb pompano, the fish gave me a nice ride the new match 50 reel worked great, it let go of the line without any tangling or locking problems, but I can’t say the same for the little metal wire that holds the line, when the fish took off that was yank off the muzzle, but overall the gun was good. But after that it was a little more tricky to rig the shooting line and I had a couple of tangling incidents, but nothing major, but it did take longer to rig the gun after shooing, (since the gun has the range I was double wrapping).
The next few days were without any major issues, but on the sixth day I’ve landed a nice 20 lb amber jack, after dropping the fish in the boat I’ve notice the nice metal bridge was missing. After losing the bridge rigging the shooting line with two wraps was very difficult, I had to pay a lot of attention where I was placing the shooting line, and the order of things on the muzzle (meaning line) , sometimes when reloading with a lot of fish swimming around you it was easy to overlook, I am used to my teak-sea, that tree trunk has a very long line release and muzzle line holder (very much like the Wong and Yokooji for that matter) , so those are none issues, I never had any tangling problems, but with the HF without the bridge , wire loop under the muzzle and the small line holders the diver needs to be very aware else your shot will tangle (at least that was the case with me), that can take a toe on reloading speed. For my next season I am going to try to install the muzzle line holder of the master America that will make things really easy for double wrapping.
Besides the muzzle issue, the only additional problems I’ve notice were, the black line that came with the reel decay really fast (I notice parts where the line was weak and had to trim them out). Also the line release fail to let go of the line on two or three instances during my whole season, very minimal to the usage most likely I did something wrong. Perhaps the reason the Wong, teak-sea and others do not have a spring on that mechanism (but that has never happen with any of my other guns). . I would prefer a wood gun style line release, straight and with an angle, the one on the Cayman is metal with curves but the holding line position is 90 degrees, often when reloading the line escapes the holder.
Overall I like the gun, it is a very accurate, but the next one would be the Cayman carbon model (and I plan to do so), since my preference is for quite shots, after getting the gun, I will remove the bridge (it is too bad since that was great idea) also I will install a different line holder on muzzle. If I was using this gun to fish in Alaska, none of these issues would matter, since the dives days are short and the amount of shooting is low.
So here it is my 2cents on the Cayman HF110.
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My first impression of the HF still in Alaska, was that the gun was very well made, very nice handle, the reel looked very strong and reliable since it is high quality plastic, I would not have to worry about corrosion problems like I had with the three omer pelagic reels (the aluminum ones). Still in Alaska the only real issue I notice was the barrel made of bare aluminum, that combined with the stainless shaft would make for a very loud shot. But that was the only issue overall the gun looked great and also felt great.
Well it as time for the wet test, down in Brazil the spear fishing day starts at 6:00 am and ends at 8:00 pm or later if we decide to fish at night, very long days with a lots of shooting, one the first day the gun felt great, the shot was really strong (at the first shot I begin to double wrap using the line on the reel), the gun also felt very accurate, I can’t remember if I’ve missed any shots or not (if I did it was definitely my fault), but I’ve certainly made most of the shots, so I’ve landed plenty of small pelagic fish, jacks and pompanos and small barracudas, the gun felt really light and easy to move around, in fact the 110 felt as good as my sporasub 100 as far a mobility goes. The nice metal bridge together with wire loop under muzzle keep the gun tangle free and made reloading really fast. But my first impression was true, the shot of the HF is really loud, so if you plan to fish for shook or any fish that requires a quite shot, you may want to get the carbon model instead of the Aluminum (I don’t own the carbon model yet). I keep hearing my friend winning about my shot spooking his fish (too bad for him ; ) .
On the second dive day, came the first medium size fish, I was going to a rock to look for groupers when passing a place where the waves were breaking, I’ve spotted a couple of nice size pompanos I’ve nailed the largest one good size 25 lb pompano, the fish gave me a nice ride the new match 50 reel worked great, it let go of the line without any tangling or locking problems, but I can’t say the same for the little metal wire that holds the line, when the fish took off that was yank off the muzzle, but overall the gun was good. But after that it was a little more tricky to rig the shooting line and I had a couple of tangling incidents, but nothing major, but it did take longer to rig the gun after shooing, (since the gun has the range I was double wrapping).
The next few days were without any major issues, but on the sixth day I’ve landed a nice 20 lb amber jack, after dropping the fish in the boat I’ve notice the nice metal bridge was missing. After losing the bridge rigging the shooting line with two wraps was very difficult, I had to pay a lot of attention where I was placing the shooting line, and the order of things on the muzzle (meaning line) , sometimes when reloading with a lot of fish swimming around you it was easy to overlook, I am used to my teak-sea, that tree trunk has a very long line release and muzzle line holder (very much like the Wong and Yokooji for that matter) , so those are none issues, I never had any tangling problems, but with the HF without the bridge , wire loop under the muzzle and the small line holders the diver needs to be very aware else your shot will tangle (at least that was the case with me), that can take a toe on reloading speed. For my next season I am going to try to install the muzzle line holder of the master America that will make things really easy for double wrapping.
Besides the muzzle issue, the only additional problems I’ve notice were, the black line that came with the reel decay really fast (I notice parts where the line was weak and had to trim them out). Also the line release fail to let go of the line on two or three instances during my whole season, very minimal to the usage most likely I did something wrong. Perhaps the reason the Wong, teak-sea and others do not have a spring on that mechanism (but that has never happen with any of my other guns). . I would prefer a wood gun style line release, straight and with an angle, the one on the Cayman is metal with curves but the holding line position is 90 degrees, often when reloading the line escapes the holder.
Overall I like the gun, it is a very accurate, but the next one would be the Cayman carbon model (and I plan to do so), since my preference is for quite shots, after getting the gun, I will remove the bridge (it is too bad since that was great idea) also I will install a different line holder on muzzle. If I was using this gun to fish in Alaska, none of these issues would matter, since the dives days are short and the amount of shooting is low.
So here it is my 2cents on the Cayman HF110.
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