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It really needs a period of wind from the northerly quarter to calm the water down a bit. I might check this place on a good SW swell with the surfboard!
Perhaps that's how it managed to get so big. Something similar happened to me once last year. I put it down to something slowing or stopping the spear short (the line can catch awkwardly in the muzzle clip if you are not careful when loading) - but will never really know for sure. I clean-up the spear-tip with a file after every trip - so it is kept reasonably sharp. In your case, perhaps the angle of the fish help turned it into more of a glancing blow. You'd thinking being whacked in the head by a spear would knock the fish out even it the spear did not penetrate.... But a massive bass, at least 10lb, cruised in front between me and the mullet. It was 90 degrees to me, 1m directly in front of my spear tip and didn't quite have the measure of me as it was coming to see what I was. I aimed for the shoulder and pulled the trigger. The spear ran straight and true, hit its gill plate and bounced off
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Snapping fins seems to be the order of the week. I snapped mine on tuesday after spinging up from the bottom even heard the snap. It snapped inside the foot pocket so spent the rest of the week trying to get a new pair.
Got hold of Steve from bluewater sports and he no longer had my size so totaly gutted.
An open water 10lb bass is not an easy fish to catch, a wise & careful creature it must be to have survived so long a life in this age!! I have shot at big bass with the same result more than once, sometimes you can knock them senseless for a min or two but a big bass will be very difficult to handle when it comes too "trust me"!
Of course now I use a mamba