Very nice man. Congratulations on such a nice catch.
A few from Belize
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Nice cubera Hank. Congrats!
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Dam fine!
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sweet, that muttons no joke either.
what did you shoot the cubera with that managed to get clear through the head? -
sweet, that muttons no joke either.
what did you shoot the cubera with that managed to get clear through the head?I hit it with a 7 mm single flopper shaft. Wong 55 with two 24 inch 5/8 bands. That's strong for me. I have a small turd coming out of my butt every time I cock it. It went in just behind the gills near the lateral line and came out under the gill plate on the other side.
DuQuesnay shot it with a 5/16 shaft, small double flopper from his home made gun with 2 5/8 bands. His bands are long and the gun isn't that strong but he was point blank. The tip of his gun was about 3-4 feet from the head of the fish. But still, the tip only came out about 2 inches on the other side and it was stuck. It took us about 15 minutes to get his shaft out of the fish. -
Yep. Nice calm day. Got out to our spot and found the fish. Jake hit a nice one, then another, then I got one, then a mutton, then another.....Jake was doing some really nice diving. He would disappear at about 80 feet but I was getting vectors on dark and light spots I could see so I knew where he was and could meet him coming up. Then, "thwack", I'd hear his gun.
We had a pretty full cooler....and lucky we brought two. I dropped down to about 65 feet, over a coral spur. I could see to my 1 o'clock or so that there was a fair sized cubera checking me out. I just kind of played dead, dropping and staying level to look small. She just kept coming....slowly I turned and she was headed right at me. I'm thinking,"ok, turn......turn and don't bolt". She did and gave me a really nice shot. I was thinking it was.....like 30-35 or so. It took off after the shot and I headed up, running line out on my reel. I got to the surface and started pulling. Lucky it didn't hole up. Slowly...slowly it came up. DuQuesnay swam over to me and watched. As it came up I could see it was pretty big and pretty dead but "Duke's" shot it again in the head.
ya man. As I swam by Jake coming back from the boat he starts hooting. 53 lbs. My best by about 8 lbs or so. Nice day.http://a2.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net…59776525_1900361123_n.jpg
This is kind of the ugly side. I hit it near the lateral line and it came out the gill plate on the other side.
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http://a7.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net…60256537_1843342589_n.jpgNice picture but it was a bit curled up from trying to jam it into my cooler.
http://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net…60576545_2050409022_n.jpgJealous jealous jealous :captngrin: Man that snapper is a dream fish for me confrigginggrats!!! :yaydance::clap2::excited1:
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Hank thats a new profile pic me thinks
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Hell yes, Hank!
You had that one coming for a while now. Congrats!
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Amazing fish, even without that amazing Cubera thats the kind of stuff spearo dreams are made of.
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Amazing fish, even without that amazing Cubera thats the kind of stuff spearo dreams are made of.
i agree..I am always in awe of Hank's catches...add a huge trophy fish and it is just over the top
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It was a great day. Jake and I are trying to come up with a ceremonial "thank you" chant or dance when we pull away from that place.
The other fish were really nice. The mutton was one of the larger ones I've shot but they all look tiny next to "big Bertha". -
I love this thread , it's on of the best on the forums
Thanks for keeping it alive Hank ...
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Congrats again! looks like a memorable day
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We went exploring new areas up north yesterday. We were within sight of Belize City near the channel where big ships come in to port. It was pretty calm and little current. The coral doesn't look healthy in that area but there were a lot of fish. We hunted the edge of the channels in a couple cuts and found red grouper, which we don't see much down south. Jake tore the flopper of his shaft and he also forgot to bring the extra ones I had sitting out....."Yeah Dad, I'll get em'...."....riiiiight....
Anyway, he shot this 30 lb cubera with no flopper. But he got close enough to blow the shaft all the way through the fish, which held. Jon, (Belize Spearo on here) went down and shot it again. Then a red came swimming by and I went and got it.
Jon spears a lot. He's good. He also learned why we use reels. Maybe he'll post here...haha. He shot a nice mutton with his new gun, and no reel. It got wrapped around a fan coral and he couldn't get it up at 65-70 feet or so and not so good vis. We did about 5 dives trying to see the gun floating up but couldn't see it. Lucky the boat was anchored near and we had a vector.....and scuba gear. The fish had gotten off the shaft and was laying there next to the coral where the line tangled. Lucky him. What's the best reel for a Riffe c3? haha.
Sorry the pictures kind of suck. I had the camera on the boat and forgot....it seemed a forgetful day. Shafts, camera...anyway, we got about 8 grouper, a couple muttons, a dog, and the big cubera, among other schoolmasters, ceros....nice day. -
Looks like a great day!! That mutton is beautiful !!
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Jealous
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Wow!!! Talk about a treasure of a fish!!!
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Sweeet! you live in paradise!
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For a Riffe C3 I would go with a floatline. It's weird shape makes difficult to attach any standard reel unless you flat the surface where it will be screwed a bit.
Well done!
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