I've used a 5-pronged (barbed) sling for flounder spearing/spotlighting. Haven't been pulled up. I emailed the DPI people a while ago and even they didn't seem to know if this was okay or not.
Not quite sure about the logic of using two barbless prongs - surely the fish has a far greater chance of getting off (injured) and swimming off to die?
Mike.
4liters wrote:What spear do you use? Apparently we're only supposed to use spears with 2 prongs and no barbs but everything I've seen for sale on the major online tackle stores has a cluster of prongs with barbs.