Posts by LunkerBuster

If you have a fish take all these floats away you should have taken a better shot

Maybe take a water sample and see of there is a hydrological center that could analyze it. NOAA here will take samples of all sorts of stuff if you can give them sampling info and location.

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Your pictures always make me wonder what it takes for you guys to go "woah".. 25lb+ snappers?

Amen! Your pics always impress, to say the least!
That dog on the right is just insane.

Cheers and welcome.

Is this for a floatline or as a bungee. I don't think there will be much snap on this for applying pressure to fish. As a floatline I don't know if it will actually float. Might be perfect. For that money id say try one and let us know

I might also be concerned with its abrasion. Resistance. It looks like a nylon weave on the outside and that might have fraying issues around rigs wrecks or reefs.

Nice mike. Way to go!!

Welcome. Nice to have you. What is your schedule as far as free time? We have a good dive group that tries to get out as much as possible

Not to derail but make sure you use good quality grease with three different metals in a high salt environment.

Very awesome. Throw that bitch in the smoker and you will be stoked!!

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My first Yellowfin Tuna, got it in 40 'sh feet through the tail while it was speeding away. now it aint 100lbs but two fifties make a hundred don't it?
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that is awesome!!! Way to go man

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Nice Bug!

Thanks - very interesting to see this. I pretty much funded my youth, treats, dates, and more growing up in The Panama Canal Zone catching and selling spiny lobsters in bth the Atlantic and Pacific but mostly from shore along the Causeway on the Pacfic entrance to the Canal. There were no limits, other than self imposed ones; no small and no femails with eggs. Not unusual to catch and sell 50 or more pounds of lobsters pretty much whenever I needed money. A 100 pound day was a real good day but there was no comercial fishing for them and rotating locations we never hurt the population.

Went back this year after commercial netting was started a few years ago and didn't see ANY!

Did the Florida Keys Spiny Lobster diving pretty much every year for a long time too. Now that is very different from your California and Panama Pacific lobstering as well.

But what was so interesting was the difference in the environment where spiny lobsters may be found and the wide range of water temperatures. We would get the upwelling from the Humbolt Current into the shallow bay of Panama and the water temps would drop from mid 80's to upper 50's at times and 60's often during the dry season (December - April) and the Spiny Lobsters would become lethargic and slow in the cold water that you could catch and bring up 4 at a time (hands, bathing suit , underarms <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">) but you needed to put them in the inner tube fast before they warmed up ha ha.

I miss my lobster diving and EATING (not the selling). <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">

Would love to have our Aussie mates show us their REAlLY big Spiny Bug/Crayfish they enjoy". My biggest was a monster of about 12 pounds caught in the San Blas Islands in the 60's. Tail dragged on the ground with me holding it by the base of antlers.

Great to see the difference. All of my lobstering was freediving which of course is another difference in methods.

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Thanks Oscar. That is a really cool story about our diving history

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You mean bungie and breakaway?

Yeah. Doh! That's what I meant

I may take the second blank. I want to do a few sketches of an idea I have had and see if I can make this blank work for it.

Ronny you want to do a deal on the floatline and breakaway together? I can send Paypal and then pickup

Wow. Can you say melting pot? That is awesome. I love diversity. It makes life a lot more seasoned.

Amazing king fish

Thanks for sharing the video.

Amazing!! God bless

A 1cm spear is like shooting a piece of rebar. If be careful about the spear beating up on small fish. The big boys, you will be ready for with that chunk of steel

We're you using the super light carbon pipe gun with the 6.5mm set up? How far was the shot?

Wow buddy. I am very glad you are safe and home to write about it. Very somber and sobering warning. I know how distracting the hunt can't be. It really quiets the urge to breathe in a dangerous way.