Posts by Dan

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You must be talking about this guy

Hello and welcome to the forum.

BlueWater Hunting and Freediving by Terry Maas is a good book http://www.amazon.com/BlueWate…cover-acc86/dp/B000GXGGBS I consider it instructional and entertaining.

The Blue water hunters video by Terry Maas is good, but I can't remember if there's much instruction, may be more of an overview. If you want just footage of bluewater spearfishing, there are a few videos on the market. See this thread for reference only http://spearfishing.world/memb…-spearfishing-videos.html

You have a point hau, reminds me of the look on chief Brody's face when he first sees jaws.

Thanks hau.

I just tried a sauteed piece of cobe meat. It was OK, none of that heavy fishy taste that I was dreading.

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for me, it is a love / hate relationship with those humas....

humus can be good but always in moderation..

Mike, YJ are good eating. With cobes I've had mixed results, that's why I asked Pantoja for a piece to try again. Many people never had a problem with them.

Pantoja, Alan and myself diving Miami today. Towards the end of the day we found the good vis, beautiful top to bottom blue. Water was rashguard warm.

Pantoja got two YJ, the bigger of the two weighing 19lb notice the bent shaft, also two cobias. Our YJ tend to hole up when shot, I've found them resting under rocky overhangs too.

I asked Pantoja to put on the 3mm wetsuit for the pics because I needed some good ones of the black suit. It's definitely too warm for these 3mm.

Nice afro dude

They mentioned he was diving in 115ft, not too many people can do that, I hope it's not someone we know. Said he's 35 years old http://www.baynews9.com/VideoPlayer/?Missing_Diver_403

Mike, from post #5

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The other thing that float line users (especially tube type float line users) fail to do is gather up and coil the float line while on the surface in between dives. The benefits coiling the float line are; When it's time for the next dive you let loose the coiled float line and you have zero drag on your descent as opposed to dragging your float on the surface the whole distance. You eliminate a long trailing float line which can cause foul ups with fellow divers. The motions of gathering up the float line into a coil are relaxing and provide a rhythm for your breath up which times and prepares you for the next dive.

He did good, especially for not having a shark spike. The music made it funny

Jeez, how long would it take to get control of a fish using a reel line, subdue the fish, get it off the spear with all that crap floating around you, then reel in the line making sure it goes on evenly.. and load. It seems to me that it would take three times longer than to be ready for a second shot with a gun/float rig. Maybe that's why Don Paul has an over under.

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I hate this f**king weather we're having.

I don't have any 7mm at this time, but they'll look the same as the 5mm and 3mm. Do you think you want one papaa? I can special order it for you. I'd wait till fuzz uses the one I sent him and give me some feedback though. The sizing is in question because of how thick they are.

LB, it's just always there on my belt, I don't think about it much. But I'm ready to deploy it and it goes on very fast.

It's all about your attitude with these animals. If you really wanted to spear him I'll bet he'd never let you get close enough. The shark would understand that you're a predator. This normally would apply to sharks that are not after eating people, as in your case. But I'd guess that even with big sharks a bluff would work. Then there are animals that are just plain unpredictable, but they're the exception. A PH is always good to have regardless. Knowing that you can really hurt a shark does wonders for your self confidence, which a shark in turn picks up on.

You can get the powerheads after 3 tomorrow if you like, hopefully we'll be diving in the morning.

Not the best move Kyle, the next time that shark will see a diver he'll be sure to harass them until he gets their fish. What you should've done is swam at him aggressively pointing with the speargun the first time you saw him. He would've taken off. Next you should've put a power head on your spear. If he would appear again that means he didn't heed the warning and you're justified in shooting him. If you hit him with a PH he ain't coming back.

These are the best PH for this application http://spearfishing.world/divi…rhead-and-belt-pouch.html

Julian, these are very good http://www.freedivingspearfishinggear.com/5-a

This thread is almost a year old. I made these neoprene sleeves with my sewing machine right after I posted it, and have been using them ever since. I get no more ear pinch from the mask strap, I don't like to dive without the sleeves, and there are no disadvantages to the sleeves. Here are a couple of pics. I'd like to know if there's interest in these.

And I still don't like hoods.

Of course I'm keeping one for myself. Can't wait for Jeff's fix.

For those interested, I should have the Gopro HD Hero cameras in 3 days.