Posts by Dan

  • Broward Beach Conditions

    Thanks for reminding me what yaking is all about <img src= " height="23" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x">

  • Old Stomping Grounds Produce...again!

    Dude is that a goat fish in the pic!? I spent three shots trying to get one on Friday just because it was pissing me off that I can't get one. Those things are skittish as hell and hard to hit. I figured I'd need one of those euro guns with a light shaft to be able to get one. They're good eating and a stringer full would make a few nice meals.

    Quote from Rolo

    I had a nice hog within my site and I took over 30 seconds to line up a perfect shot to stone him. I pulled the trigger and gave him a mohawk. My buddy tracked him down and shot him behind the gills and landed the fish.

    Who kept the fish diver A or diver B? <img src= " height="23" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x"> Jim shot a very nice YJ on Friday. The fish broke the mono and took off with the spear. The vis was poor and there was a strong current. We were diving on a wreck in 70ft. We'd find the wreck by chance on a dive here or a dive there. On one of these dives I saw a shining object on the wreck, getting closer I saw it was a fish belly up. I thought for a moment of shooting it because I couldn't quite reach it but then decided to not do it. I thought it was an undersized AJ dumped there by anglers and already rotting. I didn't know at the time Jim has lost the fish and his shaft. By chance it was that the fish ended up on top of the wreck and that Jim saw it on one of his dives 20 minutes later. We joked around about diver A diver B afterwards when I said I thought about shooting it.

  • Bad shot placement

    I just realized the direction of the spear, I thought it was the opposite. In this case it's obvious the fish wasn't moving directly away from you, maybe towards you. If not and you had a broadside then it is indeed bad shot placement. Still wouldn't call that a high shot. A high shot would be somewhere under the dorsal fin. Can you describe how it happened?

  • Bad shot placement

    Interesting thread.


    First don't waste your time with stone shots. Real pros shoot their fish through the gills and out the mouth, you don't damage any meat that way <img src= " height="23" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x">


    Seriously a tail shot is a nice holding shot. I've seen quite a few pics of fish landed this way. Probably because it takes out the fish's motor. I think it's more a matter of aiming for the stone shot. Like I said before it's more instinctive to shoot for center mass which is usually not a stone shot. A tail shot like what you have there I'd probably get if the fish was swimming directly away from me.


    I don't know what it is but lately I've been getting good shot placement. Maybe because I stopped shooting when I know the range is not good. Maybe you take a lot of hail mary shots.


    What kind of fish is that in the pic? Why do you push the knife all the way through to dispatch it? Is it for dramatic effect? <img src= " height="23" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x">

  • Old Stomping Grounds Produce...again!

    Good job Rolo. That trigger's a monster. Remember a trigger fillet marinated in Italian dressing is da' shit. Very nice haul altogether especially considering the anchor. Lets hope that this outing will set the pace for the rest of the winter until we can dive in rash guards again.

  • Last Sunday nice pargos!

    You are right Marco. I just checked a book where I wrote down the Cuban names beside the English.


    Mutton snapper = Pargo Criollo aka Pargo Sanjuanero
    Red snapper = Pargo Colorado aka Pargo del Alto aka Pargo Rojo


    Still in Cuba when someone says "pargo" they mean mutton snapper. The rest of the snappers require the second word, to my knowledge.. The exceptions are:


    Cubera snapper = Cubera
    Gray snapper = Caballerote aka Cubereta
    Lane snapper = Biajaiba
    Mahogany snapper = Ojonco
    Yellowtail snapper = Rabirubia

  • 12/19/08-Homestead

    Nice black Alan! I was going to say you're forgetting your cuban heritage then I saw at least one cuda in the pic. What happened, it was too big to fit in the cooler? :) I hear you on the forecast, we had 3-5 to start with on Friday but it laid down a little later in the afternoon. Usually it goes the other way around. Vis was crappy though up here in Ft Lauderdale. Turbo Ron's boat however was sweeeet!


    Hey Rolo, glad you had a good one too. I was so out shape after over a month of not diving I thought I needed to retire :0 I must've looked like my avatar.


    We got stopped on the way in by FWC and guess what.. there is a lesser amberjack! <img src= " height="23" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x">

  • Broward Beach Conditions

    Thanks for the report hau. Dive flag is very important. I swam out of the way of a huge boat on Friday. I heard the engines and looked up, it was heading straight for me. I swam to the right keeping an eye on it. The boat passed 45ft to the left of me. Jim saw it and said the wake directly from the props smacked me in the face.

  • Last Sunday nice pargos!

    In Cuba when somebody says pargo they are referring to a mutton snapper. Pargo can also be used to refer to other snapper species but in such cases it is followed by another name like this:


    Mutton snapper = Pargo
    Dog snapper (Lutjanus Jocu) aka Yellow snapper = Pargo Jocu
    Schoolmaster = Pargo Caji
    Pargo amargo = My first user name on a spearfishing forum :good:


    Again beautiful doggies Marco. I've yet to land my first one.


  • Blow gun fishing.

    <img src= " class="smiley" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x" height="23" width="23" loading="eager" data-tooltip="biggrin" aria-label="biggrin"> What.. who.. where the f"ck did that come from? <img src= " class="smiley" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x" height="23" width="23" loading="eager" data-tooltip="biggrin" aria-label="biggrin">


    I don't want to know what you do to your fish :stinkyfish: <img src= " height="23" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x">