Interesting to see another marine environment. Why don't you like the eel? I know other people take conger eel.
Posts by Dan
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As I read this I wonder why you're going through all this trouble. I suggested an easy and effective finish in the penetrating epoxy, you would've been done in one day. I'm no expert on finishing with epoxy but it doesn't sound like a dust problem to me. How are you letting the stock dry? Is it hanging or laying horizontally? If it's laying horizontally there should be no particles on the bottom side if it's really dust that's causing it. I had no such problem the one time I epoxy coated a gun and used a chicken turner.
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I often get asked if it's difficult to install the flat lens in the Gopro housing. What better way to demonstrate how easy it is than by doing it outdoors, on a breezy day, with a small uneven work surface, and two lenses at once. Adding the risk factor of dropping something in the water for extra tension
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The floatline only seems like a problem for those who don't use it properly. To me a floatline is freedom from many worries. In any case you have to have a flag and a float, unless you want to be stuck by your kayak to be under the protection of its flag.
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If you have a floatline the reel is redundant.
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The new Gopro 3D system has been available from Pursuit for a week already http://freedivingspearfishingg…144-gopro-lcd-bacpac.html but until now I had no thoughts of playing with it myself. Gopro has a 3D video demo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDQ3rmEeKN8
I watched it, but it requires the 3D glasses to see properly, and I wasn't going to crack open the 3D system packaging just to take out the glasses. Today a customer contacted me to confirm that the flat lenses fit the 3D housing. Since the flat lens is a dead ringer for the original curved lens in size and fit I didn't bother to check before, but I had to check now. Anyways the flat lenses fit perfectly in the 3D housing. Since the box was now open I pulled out the glasses and watched the 3D video. Holy crap it was really cool! I can't wait for someone to do a good spearfishing video in 3D. Greekdiver?
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Ramon, como estas?
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Well done
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I was wondering the same thing at some point, so here's what I understood from reading descriptions. Keep in mind this is all relative to our diving conditions, to someone coming from worse conditions it would not seem that way. I hope the California guys don't misinterpret my post, I have all the more respect for them for diving in these conditions.
Cold water. You'll need a 5mm and 7mm suits to extend your diving season. This translates into diving with more weight.
Limited diving season. Can't dive year round because of the cold. I'm not sure which months out of the year you can't dive.
Bad vis. 20ft vis is a good day.
Much smaller variety of game fish.
Possibility of white shark encounter.
Possibility of sea lion encounter.
You sometimes have to deal with enviro freaks, who can can push you to the point where you'll end up in jail.
Large areas have been closed to spearfishing due to MLPA.
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Moved to general spearfishing discussion.
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Practicing statics to become a better spearfisherman, is like saying that practicing making love by yourself will make you a good lover. In reality of course you'll just be a wanker
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G.R. I'm not clear about how you see it. Is a spearfishing reel used to recover line under pressure, like with a fishing rod, or just to recover line with little of no pressure after the fish has been subdued? I'm saying it's the latter.
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Anyone else about reel use?
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Welcome to the forum Jason.
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Scary
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Why would the folding handle be a weak link with a large fish? A speargun reel is not like a fishing rod reel, you don't recover line under pressure. A spearfishing reel is just a line storage device.
