I tried A spear before the agitar Maybe its a throw VS a swing thing for me (remember VR) The iron sword is longer than the bronze. And the Agitar I can reach bottom in most case.

If I try and crouch to much in the chair the ground moves (dat sucks) so its sneak and then I clan lean a fair amount and all is good - the leaches are hard to even do that as they are in the water and sneak more than not auto puts your weapon away.

I never tried throwing the spear I did try it for range and it did not work out well. Turns out I love the agitar in VR and preferred the Mace in pancake, Though my last playthrough was sword. IN VR it turns out im Mace,sword,agitar, Bow this run all pretty evenly levelled to boot, VR had a big game style change. I might pull the spear out and try a few throws but honestly at 60 years young a quick wrist flick beats a throw.