I'll start out by stating that my spearing career is both short and checkered with success and failure. I started out with the typical yellow glass 6' pole spear. It was the most econimical implement to a cheap chain of "free dinners"... Turns out that steel and fish flesh was a highly addictive combination. Wasn't long till I found out about a fellow named Rob Allen.... While I don't know much about the man himself, I soon found out that he knew how to propel a steel shaft at a good clip.... His ingenuity became my next source of "free dinners"....

Now for the plot twist that will leave everyone breathless.... I hunt in Maryland... Good Vis is often measured in small increments of feet and if your splitting hairs, half feet..... Realizing that most everything I killed with Robs version of a lightning bolt was shot at point blank range I arrived at a critacal cross roads.... Why am I using a gun when I can get the same range out of a pole spear.... The answer was simple, in my mind any how. The gun was much more high tech....

I was not happy with this answer even though it was inherently true. I had to take action... The action I took was to have a machinest friend of mine make me my own pole spear. The homegrown nature of his creation gave me all the reason I needed to get back to the simple, basic and effective roots from which I started. The problem with starting from the ground up is that you have to re-engineer everything that dozens of folks before you have already thought out....

So here is the crux of the problem.... I have a 6' 6" 6061 aluminum implement of death, hand machined with the utmost of care. Trouble is i've slapped a band on in it that excels in the stretch department but is terribly lacking in the propulsion department....... What sort of band would suit such a nice implement of death?

Try 1/2" OD speargun rubber. Ocean Ed is our resident polespear expert and that's his reccomendation.