Posts by Rolo
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but the predominant specie here are muttons...huge muttons! The bigger ones have eluded me but I'm getting better.:cool2:
The one in your avatar does not look too shaby.
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Beautiful fish! The anchor is over 16" OA so it's legal size and he's within the bag limit of one per person.
Who's boat is that? I don't recognize that Johnson outboard.
Oye, that boat is my first boat El Cometa AKA The Comet. I sold it to JC and it now resides at Emil's house. For the sake of the boat it is a good thing.
Fuck all you haters. That anchor is legal size. Remember the pics don't always do it justice and besides, nothing gets' wasted with it that size.
Emil,
Check out the smiley section...:bedfun::jerkit2::pot3::bed:
There was a Grogon emoticon, where it at?
Here is a last picture right before I sold it...
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I just saw the thread. Awesome stuff, I love these kind of threads as much or more than a typical spearfishing report. Julio, you are living the life. The selfish part of me wishes you were still around so we can shoot some fish like old times and follow them up with some cold Yuenglings::drink2: con los Proliance Sweaters:;
Are there any good techero's in :puertorico:? That blue roof on that hanger needs some work. Reminds me of an old Alvarez Guedes joke about roofers after Hurricane Andrew. Love the thread:fanwave:
BTW, Julio is an anomaly. He is actually an intelligent Boricua:eek::D
What do you call a boricua sitting on top of a burro?:D
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I think that bending your shaft has alot to do with where it penetrates a fish. It is all about leverage and if you place the shot in an area where the fish cannot generate the bulk of its strength, then I think you have a better chance at not bending gear. I don't feel cheated as I never want to bend shafts, they are not cheap and I did not have any spares with me either. It is important on how you handle the fish too from the surface. I have had more 20 pound black groupers bend shafts than any large pelagic type fish like the ones above, AJs or Cobias. Shoting a Black Grouper in a cave and having him go berzerk can really pretzel up your steel. That is a strong fish.
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The Permit was one of the strongest fish I've ever shot. The AP was not as bad, however I shot a few 50 pound class AJ and those can be a bear to get up. For both the AP and Permit and tried to make sure I had good holding shots as the angles they presented me did not increase my percentage for a stone shot. They both held and did not bend a spear, which was a bit surprising.
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Hey Julio,
Emil is fine, but no, it was a young kid you had the camera mishap. Thanks guys.
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Got this one a few hours ago. Emil and I went out for a looksie and scored a few fish, including this one. Emil nailed two of them today. We also got 8 lobsters and I shot two mackerals to round out the cooler. Found this nice anchor just off the wreck we were diving. It is in mint condition and must not have been there too long ago. With the exception of a 3 knot current, conditions were great today. Viz was top to bottom on both spots we went to, but again we had to tie ropes off anchors and had a few merman lines to help us stay above the structure. Out at 9 and in by 1pm...doesn't get much better.
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...a few weeks ago. Took me over a week for my friend, Jason, to send me the pictures. We went out a few inlets north of Martin County. We put a good whopping on some of the local fish population with some challenging conditions. I wish visibility was half of what it usually is down south. We were diving a few spots in the 70-80' range and had clear water for the first 25 feet, beneath this there was a layer of potaje with maybe five feet and an upwelling in the low 70s...burrrrr. The current was also ripping, so we marked the spot with some jugs and drift dove over them and did it again and again after boat would pick us up down current. Alright enough on the conditions:boohoo:.
I shot these pictured here along with two cobias one 35# and the other 28#. We did not take too many pictures, but here are a few. One of the guys screwed up some of the nice out of water Permit pictures as he was hitting the wrong button on the camera. We also landed a few nice mangroves in the murk among the Goliaths, but we did not picture those. Enjoy.
African Pompano went 35#
Permit went 40#
And Kingfish was 35 gutted, so I'm going with 40 pounds...
