I have been doing a lot of lion fish hunting lately. I write it off as volunteer work for my annual evaluations. (what better way to earn volunteer hours than spearfishing right?)
I just thought I would secure a spot for people to post pictures, information etc.
I shot this one today in about 40 feet of water. he was 16" and had to be a few pounds. as far as I know the largest recorded LF is 18"
Just a few randoms from me and my dive buddy.
I was filleting the 16"er today and thought the spines were interesting.
I shot one about 3 weeks ago. I was taking him off my spear in kind of a hurry, to feed it to a jewfish nearby. To make a long story short, I got lazy and he took advantage. He poked me right through my 3 mil kevlar gloves. I immediately surfaced and started the boat to run my hand under the water coming out of the engine. (I read somewhere the venom is neutralized at roughly 110* .) we called the marine poison control line and they recommended some benedryl and an ibuprofin. While I was under the hot water, it hardly hurt at all. I even considered doing a second dive. We decided against it and started our 10 mile journey back to the marina. I would say it was about 30 seconds after taking my hand out of the hot water that it started to hurt... a lot. My hand cramped up and had a weird aching tingling feeling which ended up lasting about 2 days. It was swollen for about 5 days, and the tendon between my thumb and index finger still doesn't feel quite right.