Posts by Don Paul

  • Old School “Mae West” Breakaway Rig

    Quote from ladvr

    Don,
    Is you popper float rigged between your shooting line and floaltine/reelline? It looks like its attached to your snubber. Anyhow, great pics! Bad ass.


    Hi Mike, the Dacor popper is attached with a Apha Grade Ti 3mm pin. The front has a velcro patch, a mono 300# trip line is looped to a adjustable down rigger clip.
    I can trip the float with a hard pull on the trip line and float the gun, when the popper is activated the
    popper rotates 180 degrees and forms a ball behind the butt.


    My top shaft is full brake away in blue water and is powered by 2 to 4 bands depending on shaft size.
    and the fish I'm hunting.
    The bottom shaft is 42' x1/4'' pulled by a 15 or 20mm band, I have shot this gun with a 3/8 shaft and 700lbs
    of 300% 5/8 when hunting Black Marlin.
    In French Poly I keep a custom 306 PH on the bottom shaft when hunting the blue.
    I sometimes can land two fish on a breathhold or save a fish I may have lost to a torn out slip tip.
    The top shaft can group 4'' shots @ 25' off the tip without a enclosed track.;)
    Cheers, Don

  • Hello from CA

    Wow Roy ! Now I really feel old hearing you dive with Kelly's kids.
    I sold the boat I used to use in baja for spearfishing tournaments so I don't dive there anymore, it's been
    at least 8 years. I still remember when one of are guys got in trouble during a Comp when he cut
    a rancher's wire fence trying too take a short cut to the boat ramp.
    Your going to like the guy's on this Forum their a good bunch.
    Cheers, Don

  • Friend Ren posted this blackout video

    Quote from seaweed

    Black1 will you samba first then black out or just directly blackout or directly samba?


    I have seen guy's just lock up and black out with out doing any body moves.I have lost color vision and dropped
    the Wt belt I was holding,followed by dropping my gun and shaking. I was alone and don't remember a full black
    out. I swam slowly to shore but could not walk to my car for a hour.My legs were toast, I got my gun, fish and belt the next day.
    Don Paul

  • Fish photo policy

    That is a Really nice fish, and it's nice to see somebody who knows how long to cut power bands.^^:thumbup:
    That water looks like a lake.
    All the bast, Don Paul

  • More fun with Carbon Fiber - Lost Wax Barrel?

    Jeff,
    How about shaping the core from Balsa like we did in the old days... Just introduce a bunch of termites
    after the CF has cured.;)^^^^ A new spin on Soluble Core Technology.^^


    There was a US Pat# 529043 for a water soluble resin, but that was for injection molding.
    Honestly I wish I could be of more help but my background is with metal and ceramics.;)
    Cheers, Don

  • Need some help picking a Speargun

    Quote from Dan

    red tide, as cumbersome as your gun looks I like it and can almost feel the nostalgia, I'll bet you named it :) I'd like to see some more pics of it close up. Actually it gave me an idea for a new forum photo gallery; member's spearguns. The kingfish is not too shabby either, OK bigger than anything I've ever seen.


    You will have to get a new server with more bandwidth if I post mine,;)
    Cheers, Don

  • Bands in my shooting line $%%%$@@@#

    Quote from Dan

    Fortunately getting a tangle when shooting a fish close like that doesn't lead to the same problems as when a fish is sounding in open water. In a close up tangle like that it makes no difference, I'd still play the fish with the float line like nothing happened. I'd relegate the shooting line tangling with the bands problem to the world of reels.


    What's a chicken line?


    Dan It can happen with or without a reel, I think a chicken line is a drag line sometimes with a small eeg or carrot
    shaped float.
    Don

  • Bands in my shooting line $%%%$@@@#

    This has been happening on some guys guns for the last 30 years even when slide rings and closed muzzels
    were the rage. I shot some super 8 film of it but that is long gone. I observed on the gun I was testing that
    shooting line could hitch on a band as the wrap passed the bow tie shaped band at the muzzle.

    I tried to use tuna cord as wish bones a long time ago and tore off two nice fish when the line hitched a band.
    I swam back to the boat and switched back to my 17/4 wishbones and after thousands of shots never had the
    issue again. Your results may differ.


    On one of my guns I set up to shoot Black Marlin with SS cable I fab'ed a bridle loop from 400# mono which stopped the wishbones
    at the end of their pull. The loop ran from the mech and was secured at the front of the gun.Tonight I try to dig up some old pics.
    Cheers, Don

  • Greetings from Los Angeles!

    Quote from fuzz

    How do you make a YFT omelet? ?(


    I use my trimmings after I smoke them with Wasabi lased brine, I can then store it in a jar till I use it.
    I then make a shatoki mushroom omelet and fold in the YFT, fish protein in the AM is like a Red Bull.
    Cheers, Don