Hi Guys,

Picked myself up a pole spear from Ocean Hunter this week - I'm just getting into free diving again and want to focus more on the Crays than fish at the moment, but cant stand the thought of spotting Johnies and not being able to take them home, hence the pole spear rather than a gun.

My question is, do I tie the spear onto myself, or the float line, or just have it free in my hand? Can see Risks and advantages to all 3 options...

Advice would be appreciated. Cheers

Tim

I have read that looping a few feet of dyneema to the band and clipping your floatline to your dyneema section is a good option, as it doesn't slow down the spear as much as directly attaching the floatline.

Ok so your best option is first get a Cable tie and put it around the rubber to make a hand loop. It should stretch easily around your hand and not be too tight when flacid. This stops the float line sliding back towards the spear when cocked - which obviously would seriously slow the spear down.
Then depending on your float line, either clip shark clip directly to that loop, or get a shark clip on a small loop of poly braid and push clip through loop and around the rubber so you can clip it to your float line loop, just like a standard gun setup.
Trust me, i do know, and this is your best option right now.

No don't use that.

TheSnapperWhisperer wrote: Ok so your best option is first get a Cable tie and put it around the rubber to make a hand loop. It should stretch easily around your hand and not be too tight when flacid. This stops the float line sliding back towards the spear when cocked - which obviously would seriously slow the spear down. Then depending on your float line, either clip shark clip directly to that loop, or get a shark clip on a small loop of poly braid and push clip through loop and around the rubber so you can clip it to your float line loop, just like a standard gun setup. Trust me, i do know, and this is your best option right now.

Photo, please?

Cheers SnapperWhisperer, Seems like a good plan.
So once set up, my hand will only go through the cable tie, not the Rubber at all?

Also, When using the spear, should I be looping cable tie over my hand so that the rubber goes down the inside of my wrist putting the rubber between my arm and the spear, or over my thumb so that the rubber runs down the outside of my wrist putting my arm between the spear and the rubber.

Guess I just need to get wet and find out what works....