Thought a thread listing the pros and cons of different reels for different uses, reef verses blue water diving for example, was/is needed.
I am tired of lugging around gear blue water fishing and in an effort to simplify my gear as much as possible due to my fishing buddy being a gear Nazi :rolleyes1: I recently purchased this pelagic reel, Ermes Sub Blue Water Leonardo 93. I am spooling it with this jacketed line instead of unsheathed spectra because I hope it will be more abrasive resistant Dyneema reel line for spearfishing / spearguns
I have full on bungee float lines(275% stretch)cored with 1000lb spectra for the big tuna and maybe one day a marlin(fingers crossed). At the moment I mostly use float lines with 50% stretch in them cored with 1000lb spectra, these float lines have served me well for both Tuna and wahoo. But I am very attracted to the idea of being among a school of wahoo unencumbered by float lines and floats and so have decided to give this reel a try in the blue. It has been my experience that Wahoo need lots of slack for their initial manic run after being speared, so I wanted as much line on my reel as possible. If you don't orient yourself well when freediving and stalking pelagics a float line can be very dangerous, so I assume the reel has its inherent dangers as well but other than taking my gun away I cant see it being less or more dangerous than the float line. Please share your opinions and experiences!
Spearfishing-Shop - Rolle fr Blue Water Hunting - Rolle Ermes Sub Blue Water Leonardo 77/93
For my reef gun I use a speardiver reel with 2mm line that comes with the reel as an option. It has preformed as well as my buddies Rob Allan Vectra reels and I have not regretted buying it but I cannot say it out performs any other reel as its the only one I have used.
Speardiver Composite Speargun Reel
Would love to hear what other reels you folks use and your experiences with them.