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Whats to Blame?!

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Pav

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Whats the best excuse for missing that double figure Bass?

I think I've read "Kelp got caught around the gun in the current".

I'd like to prepare my excuses for next year. I would prefer to blame my tools if possible :t
 
"I forgot to put the safety off!" That's one most of us have done. Now I just don't use a safety.
 
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Excellent!

My favourite excuse this year was that the really big fish were just out of range, as I've been using my new little 75cm. However, if you lay out a 75 & 90cm gun with the spearline out, the ranges are surprisingly close. In my defense, I would say that I must believe this excuse myself to the extent that I actually did not even try a shot at the largest fish I've seen in the sea on the basis that, although cruising slowly past, it was just out of range (I revisit that decision quite a lot!).

Prior to that my favourite excuse was that the spear bounced off the fish, hitting on or near the gill cover. Happen twice on v. large fish, the last was the largest mullet (by far) that I've seen.

For smaller fish, I generally concede that I just missed!

Size isn't everything (as the actress said to the bishop), I got a real kick out of spearing two high-speed mackeral this year.
 
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I like using "my rubbers must be too short" and "the water is too clear". Even better is "the fish was that big that I thought it was much closer".
 
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I shot at a 40lb kingfish and the spear apparently was dull so it hit him perfectly behind the eyes and bounced off his thick skull..knocked him out cold for a second then he rolled over and darted out of sight...was a sad day.
so an excuse could be a dull spear...:head
 
i loved (and hated) this one:
- i shoot my biggest ever grouper (called a "vieja" here) about 9Kgs
- its a okish hit in the area just above the stomach, it bolts to the back of its cave, then around the back of a large rock at the caves mouth
- third dive to try and extract it, the fish is on my left, the rock in the middle, the spear and line to my right.
- instead of grabbing the fish and pulling it out of the cave (I was scared of its big snaggly mouth) i pull the spear
- (slow motion bit) the flopper had closed (badly adjusted) and I am left with the spear in my hand
- the fish is still and does not realize it's free. I'm looking at the spear in my hand
-(even slower motion) I try to put the spear back in to the fish - IT BOLTS:waterwork

never to be seen again (and probably dies)

sad, but it happened. I adjust my floppers every dive now..

BLAME: Flopper
 
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