b'SPEARFISHINGFor diving up in the wash, a short powerful rollergun is the ideal speargun.Back in the water and with my gundistance as it only uses 30-40% of theto a surging swell section, had I not had now loaded I began swimming along abarrels length.With the rollerguna smaller gun I would have struggled promising piece of coast, the gun I wasutilizing the full length of the barrel Ito manoeuvre it through the wash, but using was only 1m long and althoughwatched my spear go straight throughwith the shorter powerful gun I was it looked the part, I was dubious on itsthe shoulder, an excellent holding shot.able to sneak up on another snapper accuracy and power.Soon with a 10The rollergun although short gets thesitting in the wash and with a quick pounder in my sights I was about to testextra power from the longer bandstone shot I had another fish on my that theory. Taking a dive down into thepull and pre-tensioned rubbers whichfloat. The roller was proving itself so far, weed I lined up the snapper from a fairresulted in more speed, power andbut the final test would come when a distance away, the clear water mademomentum improving my accuracy onlarge kingfish presented.it difficult to get close and the cageythe longer shot. Spearfishing at the Mokes you know nature of the snapper meant a long shotThis gun was ideal for spearing in deepanything can turn up and having a small was the order of the day. clear water. If I wanted to power up mygun was unnerving but the rollergun gun even more, I would simply shortenput me at ease with its better accuracy, ACCURACY IMPRESSES the length of the leverage point allowingfaster speed, and punching power.A shorter metre long gun in thefor more range and more force with theSoon a nice kingfish of around 15 kilos traditional sense would be unlikely tosame barrel length. turned up, the perfect test fish, sure pierce a snapper of this size from suchContinuing up along the coast I cameenough the roller performed exactly as 42FISHING IN GODZONE MAY/JUN 2023'