Second Ling of the year
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10ft viz :laughing3: man are we spoiled in the caribean, nice ing!
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Nice lingcod! Definitely one of my favorites.
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10ft viz :laughing3: man are we spoiled in the caribean, nice ing!
It depends where in the Caribbean. Sometimes I dive with 10'. Fortunately we have no sharks over here.
Nice fish!
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Nice fish. I also love the Riffe hand gun. I have a MT000 and I swear your gun looks about half as long as mine. What size is that? 50cm?
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The little Riffe is a Competitor OO. It is 27" long. It is nice to swim around with but a little under gunned for a big Lingcod. I normally use a Riffe Os or Speardiver 90 for bigger fish.
Yesterday the vis opened up quite a bit and was closer to 20 for the first hour until the tide change. Got a mixed bag yesterday.
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Well done!
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Sweet! Wish we could take two lings! How do you like the speardiver gun? They look like a good gun for the price and I need something just for salmon.
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Me likely the shot placement, marksman
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Thanks guys. I try not to shoot unless I can hit the head. Hate filleting and seeing the big hole.
The 90 is great. My problem is most of the dives I do during the season the vis is just not good enough to wield a big gun. I do use it out on the coast now and I do like how much reach I have. Very fast and nice gun. It has been my first railgun as they are rare up here.
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Beautiful harvest you have there.
Funny to think of a 90cm as a big gun
These are the specs for the Riffe competitor #00, band stretch is 41cm :@ Would that be the equivalent of a 40 cm euro gun? What would be the ideal length for the Speardiver Phantom to replace the little Riffe?
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Hahaha wow. My 90 cm rob allen is referred to as the hand gun or spear glock. It is a great lesson in perspective
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A 40 would seem about right as an equivalent. You would probably be laughing to yourself the whole time you were assembling the gun because it would be so small.
Now that the vis is here I will break out the Speardiver 90 as this spot does not have much kelp.
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40cm gun haha taking me back! first speargun I got when I was 15 was a JBL mini carbine, I think it would be close to 40cm. I loved that piece of crap! Was a great size for rockfish and its small size and single band would let me make multiple shots on one dive. was a good size for leaning how to hunt.
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I started with a JBL carbine back in '88 and "graduated" to a JBL 38 Special NW when I got out of college. I still have both of them and used to think they were the cats meow. They are retired now.
With the little one band carbine I actually bounced the spear off of rockfish and Cabezons at close range. Zero penetration.
I am glad I have nicer gear now!
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Nice fish!
I'm getting hungry now!The vis we get here (in the UAE) is around 10-15 feet as well. But on some days, it opens up to nearly 40 feet!
Very unpredictable! Hence, most people here dive with either a 100, 110 or 120. A short gun is very desirable in low vis though!
I know a guy here who regularly (in the winter) lands king mackerel, barracuda and large trevallies with a 75cm cressi comanche! -
The 90 is great. My problem is most of the dives I do during the season the vis is just not good enough to wield a big gun. I do use it out on the coast now and I do like how much reach I have. Very fast and nice gun. It has been my first railgun as they are rare up here.
What range in distance do you have with the 90 ? (Point of spear tip to target )
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Even though it has more reach I still am not taking long shots. I would say it may open me up to six to eight foot shots on a Ling or Rockfish. Bear in mind that eight feet from the spear tip is a long shot for me. I will try and reach out a little bit more on the upcoming Neah Bay trips where vis is much better.
SR1
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Six to eight foot shots is pretty much the max range we want to shoot fish at, for most of us anyway with every gun
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