Greetings, this is my obligatory new member post. a brief background on me, Miami native of 32 years spent a good portion of my life in the water as well as the Everglades backcountry. I consider myself an experienced sportsman whether fishing offshore, inshore, back country or fresh water. I've spent a few seasons hunting Big Cypress for deer and turkey but never found deer or hog hunts to be very fulfilling. As far as spearfishing goes I am only familiar with offshore reef diving but would like to work up the complacency to hunt pelagics in deep water someday. Nowadays my routine depends on ocean conditions; if it's flat calm I'll run out to the patches on a 16ft canoe with a 25hp merc for a few hours of ethical spearing, If it's too choppy to dive or run the boat I'm either at a shooting range (handloader, pistol instructor, quasi-gunsmith) or if the waves are good I'm paddling out at South Beach or further up the coast to go surfing. I used to do inshore/backcountry fishing around Flamingo for snook, sea trout, and redfish but I'm not as enthusiastic about it as I used to be.
I have an old Nemrod Galeon II pneumatic I sometimes use but it sinks like a rock and gets tiresome to swim so lately I've been using a Rob Allen rail gun instead. I also have a little French pipe gun branded 'Nautica' that has a spear about 26" long but I think the band I have on it now is too large because the last time I used it the shaft bounced off a kingfish from about 3' away. :confused1:
Anyway that's pretty much everything for now, I joined the site to network with other spearos and watermen and expand my knowledge on free diving and spearing tactics. Thanks for checking me out. My Instagram is saltysunburns.
