Required Introduction...

Hey Everyone,

My name is Solomon, I am very new to freediving/spearfishing, I just started about a month ago and am trying to make it a routine. I live in Playa Del Carmen and dive off the coast of the Riviera Maya, I don´t have a boat so I rely on spots that I can get to off the beach or sometimes catch rides on other´s boats.

I guess I am interested in tips and techniques for freediving/spearfishing, I have had a little luck so far but I really think it has been luck and not much skill involved. A lot of what I need is working on my apnea(practice practice practice), I can get down to about 45ft and shoot but I have to turn around and come back right away...I ended up attaching a float to my gun so that if I stick a harpoon in the coral and can´t get it out I can leave it when I run out of air and its easy to get back to on the next trip down.

Don´t know what else to say.

Solomon

Dan: I was actually thinking about a boogey board earlier after reading some posts and looking at some pictures of fish in a boat. I have always carried a bag with me to put the fish in and its just another thing that I drag up and down, and I have run into sharks so the bag of fish makes me a little nervous. Attaching the bag to the boogey board might help me out with that.

One of the things I have been most curious about is time of day for spearing: what time of day do people have better luck and what weather conditions should I look for when picking a time to go spearing?

Dan: I only get fish, I hear there are lobster but I haven´t seen any and don´t really want to go spearing them anyway. I will definitely try without the bag. I just tried out a little bit of weight today, visibility was horrible so I didn´t stay out there but I did submerge a few times just to see if there was any difference. I am amazed, I can´t wait until the wind stops and I get a chance to go for a few hours to see what the kind of improvement the weights(8 lb.) bring.