Dude George asked me about tuna floats, this image is for him, of one that works made from Divinycell.
Cheers Don
Dude George asked me about tuna floats, this image is for him, of one that works made from Divinycell.
Cheers Don
Here one from Miles in South Africa.
Cheers, Don
Don you are the man! thats what I was looking for, a template for a heavy duty float that is affordable and doable for DIY folks who WONT/CANT pay $100.00 to $170.00 for a name, I am sorry but a 11 liter float for big game x3 which may not survive a deep sounding is not possible for me... plus the cost of a end float thats $200 or more. But building cheaply 6-8 high density floats at a time sounds like heaven to me bro and puts big game in reach of mere mortals.
I was trying to do this with two large net floats
when Don told me a large sounding fish would crush those at depths below 100 ft, so very glad for ideas on building my own
Length: 104cm / 41"
Width: 52cm / 20.5"
Height: 9cm / 3.5"
Distance from rear of the board to the centre of the hole: 75cm / 29.5"
H-80 is 5lb per cu foot, you could use 4lb.......but you feel lucky.....sucker?:D;)
Wrap the unused line end to end so when the tuna go's down the float will cartwheel slowing the fish.
Cheers, Don
This is a very cool DIY theard. Brings up all kinds of ideas.
virgili can you comment on how you built your tuna float that caught a 1000 lb plus tuna? or any suggestions on float systems for big game?
I don't know anything about marlin and crazy large tuna, but I do know a lot about physics. To a fish, the net buoyancy is all that he feels. spear to hard float, bungeed to another hard float bungeed to a bigger inflatable has a lot of fighting ability and doesn't have to cost an arm and a leg. Granted it is more to swim around with
[quote='LunkerBuster','http://spearfishing.world/forums/index.php?thread/&postID=77142#post77142']I don't know anything about marlin and crazy large tuna, but I do know a lot about physics. To a fish, the net buoyancy is all that he feels.
A fish also needs to deal with the hydrodynamic drag of the entire rig, which increases with their departure speed in to the depths. When they are slowed down they lay on their side cork screwing to the sea floor. Other times they will rocket to the surface.
There is a delicate balance in the landing of big fish; too much drag on the rig will rip out slip tips, brake the slip tip cordage, or the shooting line when crimps or swedging quality lead to catastrophic failure.
Cheers, Don
Great thread! Thanks Don!!
Good point don. As always you help us see the whole picture
Thanks guys, with age come experience. I have seen a lot of gear fail over the years, and one rig was mine. I lost all on a 12 to 13 foot Black Marlin 15 years ago.:( The fish sounded in 1200 FSW) and took everything. (100' norprine bungie,100 foot float line, 3 foam filled lifeguard hard floats, Titanium reel with 500' kevcord and a Riffe blow up doll.)
Cheers, Don
Sounds to me like you didn't shoot him in the right spot hahaha
Sounds to me like you didn't shoot him in the right spot hahaha
I thought I had a spine shot, and saw the shaft buried deep into the lateral line above the peck fin.
Must have been just over it.:( Killing the massive fish will a ways haunt and sadden me.
Cheers, Don
Haha I can't believe you dignified my joke with a reply. I am sure it was as good a shot as possible
Quotevirgili can you comment on how you built your tuna float ...
Really amazed by observing how the Riffe bungee got comletely destroyed by the 1250lb fish and how it did not break!
The set up was TB bodyboard (I did some tiny improvements)
virgili any more pictures of the board?
virgili any more pictures of the board?
I'll try to dig some up for you in the meantime.
Cheers, Don
As in Spain have banned tuna fishing in all its varieties, I can not upload any pictures of the buoy extractor, or braking :nono::weeping:
Admire is your photos:thumbsup2:
There was a large marlin taken with two lobster buoys in Baja.
Take a look:
Insane!!
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