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tying your gun
- Thread starterQUETZAL
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pros, big fish will not drag you but you and the boat with. less fighting against the pull of your chosen fish.
You can climb up by pulling from your line...
Cons, if the fish is big enough it will steal your gun and your boat. you can only dive certain distance/depth from your boat. When the fish starts to pull if your boat is big and you have managed to tie yourself into the line.. that would be the end of your diving career if the fish is big and the line strong..
Also no drift diving...
Try it out and let us know what you think..
Pekka
You can climb up by pulling from your line...
Cons, if the fish is big enough it will steal your gun and your boat. you can only dive certain distance/depth from your boat. When the fish starts to pull if your boat is big and you have managed to tie yourself into the line.. that would be the end of your diving career if the fish is big and the line strong..
Also no drift diving...
Try it out and let us know what you think..
Pekka
if you are going for a record, it would void it.
also, doesn't that take most of the sport out of it? unless you';re not hunting for sport (commercial?)
also, doesn't that take most of the sport out of it? unless you';re not hunting for sport (commercial?)
We used to do it here when diving alone (in the old days when I was new to the sport and stupid). We'd use the boat as a float and have our float line (100 ft) attached to it and then to our gun. The biggest dissadvantage is in a current (we pretty much always have those here - that's why when diving alone we had to attach ourselves to the boat to drift dive) when you shoot a fish that gets holed up. In this situation you have to get back to the boat quick before your line gets too tight and dissconnect it from the boat and to a float instead and let it go (if you're too late your shaft will get bent from the weight of the boat). Then retriving it after it's on a float sucks! You have to try to anchor just perfect, put out a trail line off the boat and hope you make the perfect dive on you stuck gear to release it and get back up in time to catch your tag line before you blow by it. What a pain in the ass! Also, if there's a wind in a different direction then the current and you're trying to dive a specific structure (wreck, etc.) trying to setup your drift just right to hit your intended target is rather complicated. And of course the bigger the boat the more effect the wind has. Bottom line is, I don't reccomend the attached to the boat method. It's definetly not one I practice anymore.
Scott
Scott