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Nate, super cool lobster grab, and bare handed too! Is that vid slowed down a bit?

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found a mermaid with no dive flag, no fins..

With feet like that I wouldn't need fins either <img src= " height="23" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x">

I get the idea she's a life guard. I do see goggles. Did she see you? How did she react?

You're living the life George

7:40 "The prize this time is a beautiful black Angelfish" now that's a first. I don't know about them vintage Haiti divers..

Beautiful.

Blue Dorado Mahi Mahi

Silver Dorado

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In Mexico, mahi-mahi are called dorado, or “the golden one.”

The fish are prized by sport anglers because of their acrobatics and quality of flesh, but also for their spectacular golden hues.

While feeding or fighting on the hook, dorado will often flash different variations of these, ranging from greenish yellow to brilliant gold.

But occasionally, though very infrequently, one will come up that does not look anything like the others, which Dave Maynard discovered recently while fishing off Rancho de Costa resort in southern Baja California.

Maynard, host of Fish the Baja, was part of a group that caught 154 dorado in four days—presumably releasing most of them. A few of them were sky-blue.

“POWDER blue dorado … AMAZING colors!” tweeted Maynard.

Veteran Baja anglers expressed varying opinions on the rarity of blue dorado. (I personally have caught dozens of dorado, and have seen dozens more caught, and have never seen a blue specimen.)

Tracy Ehrenberg, who runs Pisces Sportfishing in Cabo San Lucas, described the catch as rare.

Mark Rayor, who runs Jen Wren Sportfishing in Buena Vista on the Sea of Cortez, said: “They’re an odd fish and turn all sorts of colors. Once in a while we get a silver one that looks really cool.” (Rayor’s photo of a silver dorado is posted at right.)

Eric Brictson of Gordo Banks Pangas, also on the Sea of Cortez, said: “We have seen dorado have the ability to change their color shade, particularly when aggressively in the feeding mode.

“Once they have been caught and placed in the fish box, their color patterns normally return the darker green color. [The top photo], though, does appear to show a dorado that is much bluer than you would normally see, though not unprecedented.”

Not unprecedented, perhaps, but pretty as a picture.

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I think it got tired and gave up. I'm sure it felt relieved after. Looked like he got so used to swimming with that thing attached, that he got confused for a moment once he was free of it. Terrible really that this happens to many sea animals.

Welcome to Speardiver.

There's nothing about a gopro in the link you posted.

Thanks.

What's it like swimming with and shooting a 10mm shaft?

I know about as much as you do Oscar.

Thanks for the review KC.

Did you end up using air or CO2?

How is the shooting line attached to the spear, sliding ring? Please post a closeup pic of it.

Save a life, take a life. We are strange animals indeed. Cool vid.

Welcome to Speardiver Nick.

It's not grainy.

Great info George

I tested the camera in low light conditions on land. I shot a video at dusk, it was getting quite dark. The video turned out brighter than how I perceived the lighting at that moment. I have to conclude the low light performance of the HERO3+ is excellent. I didn't have time to play with the settings so I used it straight out of the box. I don't know if the new auto light setting was on.

Interesting looking fish.

Same time frame as the long Marco.

In about 3 weeks.

Congrats on the catch and good story.

I bet you were going after it diagonally so you swam much more than 70ft. Glad you found the inner strength to pull through. Now you know that in an emergency you can push to your limit and your body won't give out. I've been through this before. Now when I find myself swimming down and hard diagonally, and the fish is on the move, for me that's an automatic abort.