Posts by Dan

Welcome to the forum Brandon.

I see.. split fin, I thought you meant broken fin Don. That fin looks so out of place.

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Bikini's a restricted area for members that post fish pictures.

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At first glance I thought you saw bull sharks.

Glass eye snapper, catalufa in Cuba. Yeah they're edible when they're big enough, didn't know about the poisonous fins but then I don't usually eat fins Where did the name toros come from?

What are toros?

A halibut with a spear injury.

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Somebody lose a halibut in the last 48 hours?

Well I finally did it. I found this fish about an hour before sundown in a sand pocket in the eel grass. He was so well buried that I did not realize that he had a pretty big tear in him from a previous spear encounter, until I shot him and he went ape. You can see the big gash on the left (his right).

I dove with Darren and took out a neighbor who is comfortable in the water but hasn't snorkeled in about 13 years. Darren saw the first fish, swam around to approach him head on and popped him while I watched. I later swam back in with my neighbor friend who was feeling the motion sickness and needed to chill. I found this guy in about 8 feet of water and was pretty much nose to nose with him. It is my first halibut and so it was a real big deal for me. it went 29" and about 8 lbs. The tear didn't seem to affect him too much and I believe he may have survived it. I found two more border line fish after that. I also noticed that all the fish including Darren's were oriented int the current. Is this usual? I would guess so.

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Congratz Stephan, nice fish.

If you don't mind I'm going to copy part of this to the fish injuries thread.

Just a case of follow the crowd. I was warned about the Salvimar foot pocket by my contact in Europe. I disregarded it because I didn't clearly understand why he was saying that the blades don't fit into the footpocket properly.

We've discussed this before and I'm compelled to say again that soft tendons is not a good thing and it's not a new trend. Pathos already went that way, had many blades broken, and switched to making stiff tendons. Overly stiff I might add. If anything it was an old bad trend.

Even if the tab was gone I wouldn't order any more foot pockets from them, I was not impressed with the other aspects of the foot pocket.

Are there holographic fish stickers available locally? If not should I offer them? What should be the length of the fish?

Well they could have mentioned that before I paid. I'm sure they've had the same reaction from others already. Since they didn't give me a heads up I must assume they purposefully withheld the information.

In search of more foot pocket options I found the new Salvimar Delta one foot pockets. They looked pretty slick so I ordered them.

I'm foot size 11 and with conventional foot pockets such as omer and H Dessault I wear size 42-44 which fits me very well without socks and with thin socks. Based on this information I was recommended the Salvimar size 43-44. I've already had experience with different foot pocket manufacturers that their numbers/sizing doesn't mean much without a point of reference, and thought being European it will probably be too small, so I ordered the next one up as well which is 45-46 to make sure I'll be able to test them.

The foot pockets arrived today. At first glance they appeared as slick as in the pictures. On further inspection I saw that the footpocket tendons were very soft, IMO not giving the blade enough support. Trying the 43-44 size on it was a tight fit, I don't think I could get in with a Lycra sock. At this size I also felt the top of the pocket putting significant pressure on the area 3" up the foot from the toes.

The 45-46 foot pocket was too loose and felt like the back of the foot pocket at the heel wasn't gripping at all and could come off in the water. The sizing not being suitable for my foot still didn't preclude the foot pockets from being used by someone with a different size foot, although I felt that the back of the pocket had a shape that doesn't grab the heel very well.

Next was installing blades in the foot pockets to give them a try in the pool. I made a quick initial attempt to push the blade into the foot pocket to see where the rails need to start and end on the blade. It looked to me like the blade went in really shallow. I marked the depth at the back edge of the blade, pulled it back out, and proceeded to push something thin into the foot pocket slot to see how deep it really goes. I was surprised to see how deep it went in. I grabbed a flashlight and shone it inside the slot to see what was obstructing the back edge of the blade. In the slot I saw a rounded tab which at first glance appeared like a post connecting the bottom of the foot pocket to the sole. I thought what a PITA and decided to try and snip it out. I then realized that it runs all the way to the back of the slot.

This means that any blade that goes into the Salvimar Delta one foot pocket has to have a channel cut into the back edge. I'm never going to do that to any blades. Even if the foot pockets were worth it, which they're not, it will probably compromise the integrity of the blade. That's it the foot pockets were useless. Needless to say I was pissed. Knowing myself that I'd probably have the foot pockets lying around for a year waiting to find some use for them, I decided to make sure that I'll get rid of the eye sore now. Tendons sheared off pretty easy by the way just pulling them apart.

The foot pocket with the bottom cut out to expose the tab. What a dumb idea.. even if the thought process was to help align the blade sideways and/or take some pressure off the back of the blade if standing on the floor with fins on.

BTW those are the same foot pockets Pipin / Persistent uses for their fins.

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Looks like it was taken from a kayak.

About a month.

Your CAPS lock is on.

These are the Speardiver shafts. I have a limited order coming this week, only 7mm (9/32) diameter at 150cm length. The tabs are not mini tabs, nor are they full size tabs. I'll post the height of the tab when the shafts arrive. Future shafts will be available with notches as well. All are heat treated stainless steel.

On the contrary fuzz it was a good read. Great pics. Admirable effort.

Try the Cressi snorkel keeper, the only one I'd ever use given the option. Next best thing is a figure 8 cut out of a bicycle inner tube. From the pic the Cressi snorkel keeper may appear like all other generic keepers but it's not the same.

What's a snorkel clip?

By me there's nothing wrong with a soft snorkel. I find the idea is disconcerting to a few people but in reality as far as functionality I see no negatives.

Such movie buffs Welcome to the forum Damien.

Interesting additions shred. Some of them are new to me as well.