Watch the float line 0_0

  • Saw it on instagram and spent the night looking for the original video online to post as an instructional video for my diving friends, I never let this happen by following some advice Don posted when I first started out in the blue, his recommendations and advice have kept me safe. Wish I could use this video to maybe make some new or old divers safer.
    I would not have let that happen to me, but if it did i would make a crap video because i would not waste air squealing like a baby, and my knife would have cut that line with my free hand without thought... Cray shit! I know this because once apon a time my genius ass got hooked by a trolling line, and i was being dragged backwards through the water...hahahahahahahah... boy did i cut that fishing line fast...lol... the fisherman is still pissed about losing his favourite lure!

    A bad day at sea is better than a good day in the boatyard
    George Steele

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  • Saw it on instagram and spent the night looking for the original video online to post as an instructional video for my diving friends, I never let this happen by following some advice Don posted when I first started out in the blue, his recommendations and advice have kept me safe. Wish I could use this video to maybe make some new or old divers safer.
    I would not have let that happen to me, but if it did i would make a crap video because i would not waste air squealing like a baby, and my knife would have cut that line with my free hand without thought... Cray shit! I know this because once apon a time my genius ass got hooked by a trolling line, and i was being dragged backwards through the water...hahahahahahahah... boy did i cut that fishing line fast...lol... the fisherman is still pissed about losing his favourite lure!


    I am a float line/buoy person when after big fish in deep water and am always aware of the line. I use an old Riffe float line which is thick vynl (I think) and is easy to keep clear - but curious of what Dan's advice was George. Care for you or Dan to retell?

  • I am a float line/buoy person when after big fish in deep water and am always aware of the line. I use an old Riffe float line which is thick vynl (I think) and is easy to keep clear - but curious of what Dan's advice was George. Care for you or Dan to retell?


    Don Paul not Dan.
    He retold some stories as he does :) of bad things, and said ALWAYS BE AWARE OF YOUR FLOAT LINE IN RELATION TO YOU AND THE FISH. Because of the story the lesson stuck, when I started I was super paranoid (which served me well) about my float line, also made me very aware how important the right material could be, it has saved me many a rope burn and tangle having the right kit.
    I believe that guy didnt have his line untangled, and stretched out... so when the tuna ran as they always do, the bunch up hit him( he should not have orientated himself to have the line by him, to many videos of guys grabbing the float line as it goes by i guess) and the bunch up looped him and as the knot formed it tightened on his arm, if that fish had sounded, or had been bigger he would have been a statistic.
    For big fish i bunch up float line in my hand, it allows me to get clear, and if there is any resistance I can drop the line and have room and depth.
    Wish Don was here to share :(

    A bad day at sea is better than a good day in the boatyard
    George Steele

  • George,


    So you keep some of the floatline bunched in your shooting hand and if you have to release your gun for any reason the gun and bunched line get released together?


    Chase

    Relax & Go Spearfishing

  • yeah, the same thing can happen with reel line if you're pulling a fish up from deep. I try to swim upwind as I pull it up or, Jake has my gun and is reeling it in. I fear a big shark grabbing the fish and running deep. Had that happen once and realized I didn't want a 350 lb shark pulling me down. I watched my Riffe float disappear in the depths like a small cork.

  • George,


    So you keep some of the floatline bunched in your shooting hand and if you have to release your gun for any reason the gun and bunched line get released together?


    Chase


    Ummm I guess so, but I wouldn't release the gun [emoji4] it's about breakaway rigs float lines pulling on your gun just as you are about to shoot, its about a tangle on the surface stopping you from getting that last few feet to your target. But for me, as I shoot I release the extra line which gets me a little wiggle room to get clear of fish traveling away at 60 mph plus, pelagics ain't slow, but neither are big reef donkeys, permit or a few other mid water fish I have shot.

    A bad day at sea is better than a good day in the boatyard
    George Steele

  • Other day we had a spearo jump in right on top of a 300lb+ plagic fish. The fish swing out, circled back I towards the spearo who was able to get a connecting hit on the fish. In a flash the 2ATM Riffe float was zinging towards the spearo and I yelled "watch out for the float, watch out for the float". The spearo back peddled JUST as the float barely missed him. Good thing as we spent the next hour driving in a search pattern an NEVER saw float/line/spear again.
    Using floats AND/Or reels have very real AND inherent dangers. Know those dangers and practice your escape.
    Thanks for sharing Steven

  • Other day we had a spearo jump in right on top of a 300lb+ plagic fish. The fish swing out, circled back I towards the spearo who was able to get a connecting hit on the fish. In a flash the 2ATM Riffe float was zinging towards the spearo and I yelled "watch out for the float, watch out for the float". The spearo back peddled JUST as the float barely missed him. Good thing as we spent the next hour driving in a search pattern an NEVER saw float/line/spear again.
    Using floats AND/Or reels have very real AND inherent dangers. Know those dangers and practice your escape.
    Thanks for sharing Steven


    Marlin can take down anything, that's why I like my hard floats.

    A bad day at sea is better than a good day in the boatyard
    George Steele

  • Pretty wild. Tangles and such, cut the Freaking line. Not even a choice.


    Trick is what to do, so you are not in this position. This is a great safety incident to learn from.


    What is the baseline Root cause? Not an easy answer.

  • Imagine pulling your knife out…..and dropping it…..:(


    Hahahhahahaha had it happen! But thanks to reef chief advocating two knives, i had another! Always Carry two knives, 30 $ is worth my life. Lots of great advice and habits to get into on this site.

    A bad day at sea is better than a good day in the boatyard
    George Steele

  • Yeah, you'd have to be Clint Eastwood cool under fire if you dropped your first knife….as you're going down and trying to remain calm and get the second…..I really don't like to dwell in this type of shit. :D

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