Posts by Dan

Quote from chris oak

I really doubt it would work because the bug would simply keep flipping backwards

That's precisely why it works The best bug catching device is a bichero (cuban name) which is simply any thin, stiff pole with a largish fish hook fastened to the end. You get it under the lobster, and jerk it back and up into the base of the tail. The lobsters backward motion only serves to secure it on the hook. I think someone posted a video here of catching lobster this way. The resulting hole is so small that it's easy to miss. I heard our own FWC use some sort of light which marks the lobsters body fluids where they would issue out of the hole. I imagine a good clandestine bichero would be a threaded speargun shaft, and a hook point which could be quickly removed and replaced with a speargun point.

naw, you can easily brighten up only a certain object in an image. In this case it was done to bring out the colors of the fish, but it was overdone. Had the brightness been increased more subtly and a few other adjustments made instead, the fish would've looked better and more natural.

Maybe it was a super angled shot

But really that fish is photoshopped to the max as far as the colors, wouldn't surprise me if they couldn't resist covering up the the spear hole. Or are you thinking the lines on the body are from the fishing line?

What's the moral?

A couple of properties where I lived there was a small area where the grass was growing more lush than anywhere else, I also always wondered why that was. I thought your grandma would've said "that's where we buried the horse"

and I found an old picture

So looking at my vid do you say I should use the 90 or 127 FOV at 30fps?

BTW on youtube the video looks jerky, maybe it's not downloading fast enough, either that or the youtube transcoding degraded it. The original video is perfectly smooth.

Here you go 1080 @ 90 FOV uploaded to youtube as the original gopro file/no editing or encoding on my side.

Rottweiler Pups - YouTube

Thanks. In the FOV menu for 1080 it lists wide, medium and narrow, does that correspond to 170, 127, and 90? Why is the 1080 @ 90 not the best now?

What will be the better alternative once the update is out?

Here's a link for quick firmware update instructions http://spearfishing.world/unde…2-firmware.html#post59387

I didn't get very deep into the functions of the original Hero HD, so some of what I say may be redundant, but here are my first impressions of the HERO2 which are all positive.

I don't know if it's my imagination but the beeping sound for on and start/stop record seems louder. This will make it easier to distinguish underwater.
Flashing record lights all around.
More user friendly display, and intuitive menu.
Easier firmware update procedure.

Can someone please tell me at this point which is the best video mode for our purposes. Needless to say it should have no vignetting with the Pursuit flat lens.

I found the process to be very user friendly, more so than with the original Hero HD. Here's a direct link to the CineForm Studio program so you don't need to fill out a form on the Gopro site. Download and install the program, then follow the instructions below.

[PDF]spearfishing.world/misc/hero2updateinst.pdf[/PDF]

Don, just the sheath is Scubapro right?

Slip-tip hali hammer

How important is a clean kill to you? Would a stone shot be considered the only clean kill with a fish, or do you have other guidelines? If the only clean kill was a stone shot then it doesn't seem all that important as most of us enjoy the fight with a big fish. I usually feel good about it if the shot was such that I knew there was no way for a fish to rip off, something like an angled shot through body and head.

What about with other animals? As I explore my feelings I find that the common factor when I feel good about a kill is if there was no moment in the hunt where I worried the animal may be lost due to incompetence on my part.

In nature there is no such thing as a clean kill, just whatever worked. Or the other way to look at it is that in nature any kill is a clean kill. If a clean kill is wholly dependent on how you feel about it, does it even really matter? If it doesn't matter then why does the concept of a clean kill exist?

Is there a pic of the fish in the boat?

Very nice. When did you go? Do kings often cruise this close to the bottom?

They can bite of fingertips but this is new.

There are plugs available as kayak accessories too.

^ My thoughts about the hatch cover as well. Contratz on the yak and kudos to Mike.

Judah, I'm not qualified to answer this. Sounds like penetrating epoxy to me but I've never used anything other than Xylene.

How long does it take to dry on the gun? It doesn't clog up the spray gun?