Posts by LunkerBuster

welcome friend...looking forward to learning a lot from you and your experiences

i second Hau's thumbs up...we need this CF enclosed track Euro...need

you wanna talk about looking crazy---see me on the treadmill with a snorkel

looks pretty cool, kinda of hybrid between a float rig and a lift bag...i wonder if the est has any ability to handle depth or if it is just intended to help you locate the speared fish?

good stuff Dan, just putting it out there

goatfish used to be a delicacy, not for it's taste but for the colorful displays in dying..the fish would be kept alive and put on a plate alive and then killed before the eater....interesting stuff

heiniken light i beleive

I personally will always take goatfish...they are tasty and super easy to clean and fillet which makes the low yield ok. I like em grilled (filleted or whole) and fried
and I have 99% of the time only seen the white and yellow ones

I certainly agree. I think that you might not want to allow for the photographer either...it is annoying, but i think that those who would do us harm would not hesitate to take the picture without the explanation and that would defeat this whole measure

just imagine...pic of spearo w/ two people's limit of hogs and the caption, "here a spear poacher proudly shows off his plunder, two people's legal limit. one can be sure this is a regular occurrence for this person and this will lead to the rape of our reefs"

i just think that the safer the better..

also, can non members read past the first post?

what i have found is very neat about the shark shield (from video and not personal experience) is that it would be a great tool for a scuba diver who spearfishes...it is really cool to see curious sharks approach and then turn away from a diver like they hit a wall...it would give me peace of mind if i were a bubble blower who was towing a big stringer....that is too much smell and noise in the water for it not to sound like dinner to a taxman, i feel the shield brings the odds slightly back to even

as for freediving...I think it would be super annoying to have one on

howdy friend...welcome to a great place to have a few laughs and share some stories while learning a lot from some really great divers, who also happen to be really good people

disagreements are welcomed but disrespect is not tolerated...pretty much prefect

i have been using the q powerline for my shootin line...single wrap and line release on the bottom (RA vetra) I have never had an issue with this setup...hau has the same line release and uses the same muzzle and same line as Ido, but he does have a reel. Perhaps it has something to do with the tension on the line as well..if the line is looser, perhaps it has the freedom to move more into the bands...

i have noticed that you are right Gris, about the kinks...I hate how easily most spectra lines will bind on themselves once they kink... Ihave been cutting my old shooting lines up to make wishbones and wishbone loops so I don't get too upset if I have to change out my shooting line every 10 dives...it is actually more like every 20...but at least i can recycle most of it

i have always surmized that the tangle happens when the shooting line has too much line memory..I have guessed that what happens is the line is released as the spear moves at all and if the line holds it's shape it raises up into the area where the bands are and snag....I try to remedy this by using spectra as shooting line, not mono.

again, this is just the best guess based on my observations...I know this happens to hau as well and I dont think he uses mono...so ?

looks pretty cool..gonna mess around with some nylon webbing an an old tripod...see what I can come up with

x2

dania mostly...i have been wanting to hit up pompano though

well damn..that is a HUGE hali...sweet report, thanks for sharing

welcome kyle....i dive a lot in lauderdale..you are welcome to come down and meet up anytime

Quote from psychobilly

Now if you ''would smear the tip of the dart on the toad's poison.......''

i have thought about that...my buddy told me once that i should keep those darts seperate incase i ever wanted to shoot something with the poison...not only could i never imagine wanting to do that, it seems likely that i would forget which ones they were and thus not a good idea... I do wipe the dart with ISO after wards to keep the poison from getting anywhere it isn't supposed to be

if there is a good deal to be had on a riffe 3, either the c or s...go for that

hey there...welcome aboard...look forward to learning a lot from you...