Posts by ollie

yea cool vids and some nice fish, when you shoot in caves are you choking your rubber's? and are the camera's attached to your masks or are you wearing like a gopro head strap

Is a jewfish in the us the same as a WSB because in Australia we call mullaway jewfish and there are pretty much the same as the WSB

cool thread! just wondering what are the +'s and -'s of fibreglass and carbon fibre? and can anyone recommend me a slightly stiffer blade than the omer stingray's as i feel i can use a stiffer blade now that i have slightly better technique;)

oh nice jono what did it go on the lie detector? did you burley like crazy or was it freeswiming see it from the surface sort of thing? the only ones i have seen are tiny pinkies on the nsw south coast and they are all well below the size limit.

also when powering the gun what does shoting high mean and what does it mean if i am shooting low?
i am using the charts provided but would like to fine tune it to be spot on. the rob allen rubber i am using is very punchy.

yea im not to familiar with wahoo rigs just because we won't get them this far south with the cool water, but who needs floatlines bungies or reel's when you can just catch them like this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FRNEidx6eY&feature=related

http://www.extremespearfishing.com.au/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=46

there is a link directly to the thread i hope it works

sorry just noticed the ra chicken float question, i have one with a rob allen combo flasher on it and it works fantasticly, it can be slightly annoying to wrap it around the chicken float when not in use but like all gear it has its ups and downs. it comes with 15 metres of mono between the flasher and chicken float which i have never needed but is great none the less.
i am not a rob allen sales rep, i am just about to get into bluewater hunting here in aus for our winter (tuna and marlin) and am sharing what i have heard with you

Im no bluewater guy but cd's will lose there silver coating after one dive and end up as just clear disc's.

Try a couple of wine cask bag's cut into shreds or large and small ss spoon's.
They wobble when bobbed up and down which sends out really good vibrations/pulses, in no so great vis water a small baby rattle is great on the bottom of the flasher to bring them in from far away but a real rob allen isn't really all that expensive.

Alot of serious bluewater guys in Australia use rob allen 1.4 metre guns, normal flopper for wahoo but a slip tip for tuna.
The standard is 7.5mm spears but 8mm for larger fish or slip tips.
There is a thread on an australian forum which i will look up for you, showing how to attach a pelagic open muzzle onto the rob allen to let it fit three bands apparently with the 3rd band it is hard to control recoil even when using two hands.
I have not heard anything about carbon rob allens longer than 1.3 metres but imagine anything larger than a 7mm spear would be hard with recoil.
This setup has been proven through a number of trips to the coral sea and will not let you down

cool thanks for the feedback, can't wait to try my own

yea they seem to do well with them in that clip but the guns were huge for that type of vis but i guess you need a thick spear and lost of power to move one of those trident's

ok cool ill see if i can trade with some of my mates and have a play around

hey rich and jono thanks heaps for that it will help me for a long time comming, sorry for the late reply i have just been away on our(australian) easter long weekend, jono did you get a chance to dive? weather was great north of syd!

oh im not sure if you read i have 20mm band and an 18mm band which can also be re cut, does anyone have length of rubber/s chart for pipe/euro guns?

hmm seems simple but i have only got the rob allen pre made dyneema wishbones which includes the insert for the rubbers and i am in a mad rush to get my new gun sorted before the 5 day long weekend and i dont think my local shop stocks those inserts ill have to play with the rubber length, what do high and low shots mean? is low to much power?
thanks for all the help so far this has really opened my eyes to a great new way to modulate gun power

CWW yes i have noticed that and had to grind 2-3mm off the end of the RA shafts for them to work smoothly.

Jono is there any chance you can post a pic of the wishbone setup you are talking about, i think i understand but am not quite sure are you saying that you cut your rubbers and change the band stretch by cutting your bridles?

I am not a huge fan of the mowhawk as it is just a rebadged orca thula and my plastic coating on my barrel is not fully stuck to the aluminium.

Also the rail is not deep enough so that if the gun was not held spear side up for the whole dive the spear would fall out of the rail and sit in one of the other grooves in the muzzle, i fixed this cheaply and did a little surgery to the muzzle by cutting everything above the rail off and inserting a SS pin to guide the line to convert it to an open muzzle this holds the spear in place.

Apart from those things the gun has taken heaps of fish for me and is more than capable just won't be buying another one is all

Hi i have been doing some pool testing with my cressi mowhawk 110 (horrible gun dont get one) it has a 7mm spear and i am looking at powering it up i currently have a 16mm band and have a spare 18mm and 20mm bands some shoot high and some low i was wondering what each means (high and low) and how much you cut it each time you shorten.
thanks Ollie

but are you matching your bands to the spear when it goes higher or is this with the bands from the previous setup?

interesting that the shot go higher, is this with the same rubber as the standard length or is this with a new rubber suited to the shorter spear?

sorry dont worry i misread i will give this a go tomorrow

mmmmmm yumm thanks for the great recipe John did it exactly as you did but piled on the rosemary and garlic it was delicious, lunkerbuster before i go ahead with your recipe what does soaking the fillet overnight do