Posts by Dan

  • "Cudezilla"

    Marco, sorry to hear about your son, I know I'd rather have it happen to me than my kid. When I think there's a chance of cig I do the same as you, eat a little piece. I got cig once and it was from a lizard fish in Cuba.


  • The forum and search engines

    It's been interesting for me to observe how the forum performs with search engines such as google for spearfishing related searches. Specifically how soon it takes to reflect changes in the forum such as the new domain name and new threads. The new domain name was chosen to perform well with the search engines but it was still surprising to me to see how fast it took effect. For those curious about this try the following searches:


    freediving spearfishing forum


    freediving spearfishing


    spearfishing freediving


    spearfishing forum


    freediving forum


    I'm not sure why it was important to me to put emphasis on this as I never aspired for the forum to be big. I guess it's a good learning experience and that I can apply the knowledge gained elsewhere. For sure it doesn't hurt in attracting quality people to the site.

  • "Cudezilla"

    A mi me gusta el desafiio de coger un buen aguajis o especialmente una buena cubera. Pero en cuanto a comer me da igual. La verdad es que mas alla del buen sentimiento por haber cojido un buen ejemplar, los otros pescados se los doy a personas que los aprecian mas. En mi freo se queda la picuda nada mas. Es facil a limpiar, da mucha carne con muy pocas espinas y sabe bien.

  • "Cudezilla"

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    Una pregunta, con todo el respeto...
    ¿Ustedes se comen esas picuas?


    Christian
    Puerto Rico

    Cual seria la otra razon para matar a esos animales?

  • Yak cart, which one?

    Quote from hau

    My yak is 75lbs empty and I have enough gear and equipment on board to make it to the Bahamas if I change my mind about coming back.^^

    All that and still no fish pics :poke:^^


    I guess we need to work on picture taking skills next. If there's anything I can do to help let me know :)

  • Yak cart, which one?

    You need to have welding skills and equipment and the SS tubing. If you don't already have that it's more practical to buy one retail.


    If all else fails you can try the old fashion way with wood rollers <img src= " height="23" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x">




  • Cuban homemade spearfishing gear, pneumatic speargun

    Monster, as strange as it seems yes they find it easier. Between La Habana and Guanabo (about 1/2 hour drive along the north coast of Cuba) there were two escopeteros that I knew of. I went with a spearfishing friend to see it one time. He's got a shed in the open air with some basic tools. Drill press, lathe, and boxes and boxes of washers and screws, all pretty shabby. But the spearfishers respect and depend on the guy. It's taken like an actual occupation although the guy may very well be some machinist for the state who does that for additional income. I believe that because industry is much more developed than leisure in Cuba they can steal or salvage all metal parts from factories and stuff rather than buy "parts" for spearguns. It is sad but it also reminds me of my best days spearfishing.

  • Yak cart, which one?

    If you're diving with other guys anyways I'd just ask for help. Between two people it's not that hard to carry a yak. So if there's two guys with a yak each it's perfect. Only two trips back and forth to get the yaks to the water. No need to go back to the car to put away the cart. I realize that larger distances may be involved but diving out of Dania the parking lot is pretty close to the water.