Posts by Dan

  • Hatch guns?

    I've been checking out vids on the Abellan site. Harry, look at his new handle.



    Look at the handle I've been making for 3 years, I designed it from scratch for my own hand.





  • Norcal diving - Mendocino

    Congratz on 2nd place.


    If this is your first attempt at video, wow, I'd like to see what's coming. Nice pics too.


    All my spearfishing experience being in the Caribbean I find your fish, abs, bottom structure, and underwater vegetation surreal. I didn't expect there to be so much fish life. A fish making an appearance in both videos that you didn't shoot reminds me of our lizard fish. It can get to good size here but I don't shoot because I got cig from one once.

  • Bloody Nose

    You equalize by closing your mouth and your nostrils/pinching them together with your fingers, and forcing air into your upper cavities by flexing something in your throat/neck area. Some people can do this without pinching the nose.


    I doubt you would be diving to 15ft if you weren't equalizing in one way or another, you'd feel too much pain in your ears.


    The only thing about a mask is that it allow easy pinching of the nose from the outside.

  • Handle sheared off gun

    Thanks for the pics Don.


    Strong or not I never liked that Aimrite / Wong handle from the first moment I held it. It's just not ergonomically correct. I also don't like midhandle guns, feels weird to have the gun butt so close to and pointing at the face.

  • Bloody Nose

    Blood in the snot is usually associated with equalizing problems. Were you having difficulty equalizing and blow too hard? You can force it and dive like this, but if you always do it eventually you'll have a time where the effects will persist after the dive, and may completely prevent you from equalizing and diving again for a couple of weeks. It's not a big deal but best to stop and not dive for a couple of days until your passages clear up.


    Thread moved to diving section.

  • Diving with Jenyie

    Diving with Jenyie and crew Saturday. Flat seas, rash guard temp water, north to south current, good vis north of the inlet and green to the south. Good diving conditions but didn't see too many fish. Jenyie and Nider tag teamed this very fat mutton which holed up on sight, this is something new to me as I never seen one hole up unless hurt. This mutton turned out to have swallowed a small moray eel. The meal was so big for it that there was not enough room for the complete eel in its stomach, and the head of it was sticking out towards the throat, it was the only part of the eel that wasn't digested. Some other fish were taken including mackerels, a big trigger, and a nice hog.


    Jenyie



    Nider



    Crew


  • Lobstering and some others.

    I drill a hole into the middle of the tip of the aluminum rod, and out the side. I thread the mono through and melt the end. Friction is enough to keep it in there, the force the escaping lobster exerts is not enough to pull the mono out.

  • Lobstering and some others.

    Well done Ben.


    Yeah I'd like to see that lobster spot too LB. I love using the snare, mine is very simple, an aluminum tickle stick with a mono loop. I think I'm good with it, the trick is finding the lobster.