Hola,
Does anyone know of the toughest arrow/gear that could hold some serious big game?
I run www.spearfishing-trips.com and one of the destinations is Ascension Island, the land of the giant yellow fin tuna's and I would love to try and land one with my bow.
I've thought about this for some time and think the only way would be to try and make something custom. Getting the fish to the surface is not a problem with chum, they go crazy for sardines, so I'm pretty confident I can get a solid shot into one.
From there I would use a similar system to what I use for spearfishing them, which is basically the spear/arrow connected to about 30m of heavy duty float line/rope, which is connected to some bungee, that is then connected to a large float which I'll throw over board.
The idea is the float and bungee does all the fighting for me, tiring out the fish until I can start pulling her up etc.
Everything in that system should work but my main concern is the arrow ( I don't have much experience here), and the connection to the rope - I need something bomb proof.
When were spearfishing we use steel shafts and crimp the line on, often the 7.5mm shafts are bent to hell by the end of the fight but as long as all the connections hold it doesn't matter.
Before I start looking into custom arrows, does anyone have any ideas on if this type of big game stuff exists or not, or ideas on going forward. Its such a wild idea but I'm really amped to try. I'm back there in the middle of August so have some time to plan.
Thanks for reading lol,
Tony
Does anyone know of the toughest arrow/gear that could hold some serious big game?
I run www.spearfishing-trips.com and one of the destinations is Ascension Island, the land of the giant yellow fin tuna's and I would love to try and land one with my bow.
I've thought about this for some time and think the only way would be to try and make something custom. Getting the fish to the surface is not a problem with chum, they go crazy for sardines, so I'm pretty confident I can get a solid shot into one.
From there I would use a similar system to what I use for spearfishing them, which is basically the spear/arrow connected to about 30m of heavy duty float line/rope, which is connected to some bungee, that is then connected to a large float which I'll throw over board.
The idea is the float and bungee does all the fighting for me, tiring out the fish until I can start pulling her up etc.
Everything in that system should work but my main concern is the arrow ( I don't have much experience here), and the connection to the rope - I need something bomb proof.
When were spearfishing we use steel shafts and crimp the line on, often the 7.5mm shafts are bent to hell by the end of the fight but as long as all the connections hold it doesn't matter.
Before I start looking into custom arrows, does anyone have any ideas on if this type of big game stuff exists or not, or ideas on going forward. Its such a wild idea but I'm really amped to try. I'm back there in the middle of August so have some time to plan.
Thanks for reading lol,
Tony