Many times I'll be hunting and I'll come across a fat halibut and wished I had something besides a knife to take them down, especially when I've got expensive mori slip tips on the gun. I talked to Dean down at Vector Marine and he said he could make me whatever I wanted. My idea was to have him make a small shaft with a handle and two floppers on it. I wanted an 8" shaft with 2 of deans retro floppers on it because my hopes are that the DFG will be less likely to cite me for a hooked device if I'm bugging (My argument against it being a usefull hooked device would be 2 floppers are more likely to hang up under a reef, plus why would anyone use a 8" as a hooked device?). Longer would be better but I've touched a lot of halibut so it will work out well in most cases.
The twin floppers will also give me a better chance of hanging a hali and not having them pull off. I wanted one of the floppers as close to the point as possible in case the hali was sitting on rocks. The sheath sucks ass, I made it tonight as a quickie because I was going to try to dive. It's just a piece of pvc with a dynema as a belt loop. A bungee holds it upside in place and is used as a leash in case the fish is wild and to make sure I don't drop it.
I'm going to make a T clip to hold the spike in like one of the other ones I've seen but I need my saws at work to make clean cuts on the pvc.
Dean can make you any size hammer you want, he also machines stainless shafts etc and is in Hawaiian Gardens, I use one of his shafts on my 59" gil gun. Dean/vector marine 949-295-3590
Videos will be coming soon, I'm getting a getting a new camera set up for xmas