DB's Titan of Tuna is correct in all respects.
Froma personal hard luck lesson, last year I was in Baja diving with good buddy Tim Hatler, owner of Palapas Ventana. I was using a Wong 55" carbon barreled Hybrid, 5/16" shaft with a Mori slip tip, mono and a reel. I was poking around the bouldered area North of Cerralvo Island for grouper and just getting a feel for the place.
So I'm at the surface just admiring the visibility and collecting my chi and a shape forms off to the side that finalizes in a stripped marlin of about 180 pounds. This thing parks itself 12 feet away and starts the light show. Now I had the gun to do it, the shaft would have been toast afterwards but the slip tip was up to it. My problem was that I was rigged with a reel and no floatline!!! I watched as a fish that I only see on the TV and over the bar counters, eases off in to the blue.:head
So this next month on my return, I'm removing the reels and going with a floatline/bungie for everything. Like Miles said, you never know what's going to come in and say hi.
The Hell you doing up in Canada, Miles?? PM me, mate.
Froma personal hard luck lesson, last year I was in Baja diving with good buddy Tim Hatler, owner of Palapas Ventana. I was using a Wong 55" carbon barreled Hybrid, 5/16" shaft with a Mori slip tip, mono and a reel. I was poking around the bouldered area North of Cerralvo Island for grouper and just getting a feel for the place.
So I'm at the surface just admiring the visibility and collecting my chi and a shape forms off to the side that finalizes in a stripped marlin of about 180 pounds. This thing parks itself 12 feet away and starts the light show. Now I had the gun to do it, the shaft would have been toast afterwards but the slip tip was up to it. My problem was that I was rigged with a reel and no floatline!!! I watched as a fish that I only see on the TV and over the bar counters, eases off in to the blue.:head
So this next month on my return, I'm removing the reels and going with a floatline/bungie for everything. Like Miles said, you never know what's going to come in and say hi.
The Hell you doing up in Canada, Miles?? PM me, mate.
