Fishing lure guns?

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Trunk Monkey said:
Lose that nickel plated sissy fishing lure and get yourself a Glock

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“Who wouldn’t want to go shoot their gun at fish underwater” uhhhh... me! I don’t care if it is a Glock, it’s still putting a relatively high dollar item into an atmosphere where its going to be destroyed over time. No thanks.
 
Guns of any kind around saltwater... not me unless there’s some specific need...

I must admit though, on one occasion when I was in law enforcement we did use one of my skiffs to allow me to sneak into a marina where our SRT was serving a warrant.... the way the place was set up there was great concern that team members would be badly exposed along a long narrow dock as they approached the target houseboat.. Coming by water posing as anglers I was able to drop off a young team member armed with an MP-5 onto the dock close to the rear of the target...

As it turned out none of our precautions were needed.... For my own needs I’ve always made a point of keeping my own personal weapons off of my boats.
 
Long ago I chartered a fishing boar for my Son and me in the Gulf of Mexico. We first caught Pinfish for bait, then the Captain took us out to the fishing grounds. W ehooked quite a few Sharks, none really big, but saw one that was half the size of the boat which was a 24 footer. The Captain shot every one in the head with a .22 LR from a really rusty single shot bolt action. One fourteen inch one I asked him not to shoot as I wanted it mounted for my Son. He told me OK, but anything larger get's shot before it comes in the boat. I have to brag, I caught a 103 lb. Tarpon.
 
Terry G said:
Long ago I chartered a fishing boar for my Son and me in the Gulf of Mexico. We first caught Pinfish for bait, then the Captain took us out to the fishing grounds. W ehooked quite a few Sharks, none really big, but saw one that was half the size of the boat which was a 24 footer. The Captain shot every one in the head with a .22 LR from a really rusty single shot bolt action. One fourteen inch one I asked him not to shoot as I wanted it mounted for my Son. He told me OK, but anything larger get's shot before it comes in the boat. I have to brag, I caught a 103 lb. Tarpon.
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So you went to sea with Capt Quint?! :D
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FlSwampRat said:
Since the part of fishing I enjoy is the battle between me and Mr. Fins after hooking him, killing him or stunning him and just reeling it in seems counter-entertaining. Buying the fishing gear, licenses, bait, etc and then spend hours to get to just crank in a somnolent or deceased fish
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I pursue salt water/deep ocean fishing as hobby and when you land 40-50 lb Halibut or large Ling Cod/spine fish, it could pose a safety hazard inside the boat for everyone.

On our last trip, dorsal spine of a fish poked through the thick layers of boot and stung the friend in the foot (who spent decades on a 60' commercial boat as captain) bleeding and screaming from pain. Yes, we carry spears/harpoons, bats and gaff hooks to "subdue" the fish as we bring it onboard "safer". :D

But I agree that most fishermen enjoy "fighting" the fish once hooked.

Here's a "bad day" of fishing ... Usually we do better :) And many of the fish do not like being brought onboard and require a firm strike between the eyes to stop flopping around and slapping you in the face.

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“You gonna talk, or you gonna fish?” Props to the first person to know the joke that’s the punch line to.
 
FlSwampRat said:
Since the part of fishing I enjoy is the battle between me and Mr. Fins after hooking him, killing him or stunning him and just reeling it in seems counter-entertaining. Buying the fishing gear, licenses, bait, etc and then spend hours to get to just crank in a somnolent or deceased fish, well, it would seem simpler to go to a good fish market and just buy the fillets. And that's talking bank or pier fishing, if you throw in a boat and all those related costs, it really makes the only positive part battling Mr. Fish.
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That's why they call it 'fishing' and not 'catching'...
 
I have never heard of the cartridge lure, but I have heard of dynamite or grenade fishing. Definitely NOT sporting, but very efficient in feeding several people good protein fast. I see I've been beaten to the mark by a couple others. There is an excellent - and tragic - discussion of the action in Congo Kitabu by Jean-Pierre Hallet.
 
There was a genius at Ft. Lewis a couple of decades ago that was stealing smoke grenade fuzes and selling them to the gangs in Seattle and Tacoma.

The gangs would then go to the army surplus store and by practice grenades, plug the hole, fill with black/smokeless powder, screw in the fuze and then plan to use them against other gangs. It only took a couple of gang bangers to get killed before the word got out.

Those smoke fuzes have NO delay.
 
I actually have some personal experience with "grenade fishing" as a spectator (entirely too close)... It was 1971 and I was on my senior trip on the other side of the world in a jeep crossing a single lane bridge south of Hue... Not particularly cool on my own so when I was drove up onto that bridge with no guardrail, heard a bang and got showered with water - I assumed someone was shooting at me... I almost ran off that bridge getting to the other side with my pucker factor at max... Got to the other side going pretty quickly but had just enough time to look back and realize that I'd been on top of ARVN soldiers who were under the bridge drinking beer, smoking cigars - and fishing with Uncle Sam's hand grenades... No I didn't go back - not me. To this day I don't want to be near anyone with explosives around the water... Almost fifty years later I laugh about it - but I wasn't laughing back then...
 
As a young man in a coastal town shows and documentaries about the underwater world were fascinating to me growing up. The underwater firearm device I remember was called a Bang Stick back in the day, ostensibly for self-defense against overly aggressive subaquatic life such as sharks while skin or scuba diving. The diver is the "lure", willing or otherwise. Wikipedia now shows the proper term is Powerhead.

https://www.billsbangsticks.com/Powerheads_c_1.html

Hog hunters are mentioned in the FAQ.

https://www.billsbangsticks.com/Bills-Q-A-Page_ep_45-1.html

"Blue Water, White Death" still sticks out in my youngster days memories.

 
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No doubt some kinds of fishing are blood sports and not without hazard. Every year one or two mates on charter boats are killed by fish but only one at a time... They're dragged overboard by monster tuna, billfish, or sharks or bitten or skewered (billfish). I routinely handle big sharks up to around 11 or 12 feet at the side of my 17 foot skiff for customers wearing only a pair of gloves - and mostly I'm even able to get our hooks back - but that's with a tool that's about 18" long... What I never do is try to tail rope or drag a shark up onto my skiff... Most of the video or film footage that you see with sharks is provoked by how our "heroes" are handling them... If you know what you're doing they're pretty easy to handle once they settle down - but you never relax handling them - the small ones are the ones that have gotten a bite or two on me over the years ( just minor thank heavens).... but I consider environmental dangers far more significant in a day on the water - particularly lightning... A bad thunderstorm 30 miles from the boat ramp just isn't funny in a small skiff...

Bangsticks for divers have always been called power heads at point of sale and years ago came in 38 caliber on up - usually mated to a pole or spear meant to be shot from a heavy spear gun. Not particularly sporting from my point of view - but I'm not a diver... As I tell my customers - we have an agreement - I stay in my boat - the fish stay in the water unless needed for a quick photo or to be killed for the table... By the way - the coastal areas of the Everglades have so many sharks of every kind and size that I can take a couple of young anglers in good physical shape and they'll quit before the sharks ever do... in an eight hour trip...
 
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