Originally posted by bacon:

while i agree in principle, you have to consider that the spear is meant to stop traveling and float up when it hits the water. so, asking it to both float and collide with the fish might be difficult from a design perspective. conflicting physics.

Well observed. Still made me wonder how hard ot extend the hit zone of the spear out by a couple of scale feet - only when thrown? If you just extended it generally that would maybe give an unfair combat advantage but if only for throws then shouldn't matter at all and would allow for spear fishing.

or simply make a "Fishing spear" that does no real combat damage but has the depth issue allowed for?