Posts by LunkerBuster

i think this is a great idea as well..

great write up Dan, thanks for sharing all of your observations....as always i find that your research has shed some very insightful light on this topic and i would like to respond and add some of my thoughts.

I am currently using a Tusa snorkel and it is clearly a scuba snorkel, but it has some serious pluses that i can't find in a freedive snorkel so I stick with it.

The most important part of any snorkel to me is the mouthpiece.. I like a stiffer mouthpiece as the soft ones always seem to difform mid dive and really annoy me. I like a plastic structure with silicon around it. this is the most annoying thing to me about all the freedive snorkels I have used.

I generally do not like the bendy snorkels, but on the rare occasion where the snorkel is shaped right, the bend does not pull away from your mouth but actually makes there be a lot less pull on the mouth. this is still really annoying when the snorkel has been spit and you are just swimming underwater as it vibrates and does other annoying things.

I have had no problem with smaller streamlines purges, but is can see them failing so I believe that you are correct in that they are superfluous...the presence of a purge value though might add stiffness to the mouth which i prefer.

the tusa has a unique strap keeper that is actually permanently attached to the tube is only a small nub..there is a dock that you put on the strap that the nub locks into...while this is annoying if you want to switch the snorkel from mask to mask (something i have neber done in the water) but it is never going to fall off. and it is super easy to remove and reconnect to my main mask.

I think it is super important to have color or tape on the end of the snorkel....it might not help you from a drunk boater, but it is infinitely easier to find dive buddies who have one than not....and not getting separated is important too.

the Cero's have the little dots on the side...small orange dots.

they are very curious and very fast....hau and i joke about how they love to swim by when you are reloading and they only do so once

no luck w the spanish, but i love me some Cero...i don't know if i've even seen a spanish out there..

yo, lookin for you on the yaks buddy

Jeff, i think the material the line is made from would come into play..due to the relative stiffness of mono, i think it does actually lift up as tyhe spear is shot because mono doesn't bend that fast and the foreard movement of the spear would force the end of the line to move...if the shooting line was, say, soft dyneema, i think it would definately catch in the configuration above.... just a thought

hahaha good call steveo- my last cig was probably 8 years ago and i still reminisce very fondly.....that first drag is good stuff. hahaha, now i prefer my 2min+ static breath-hold to even the best cig

hmm, that is a tough one...have to get a good ray for enough meat and yet the meat spoils like that...please do let us know what happens when froze/refidgerated asap.

btw...how big was this ray when it was alive? looks like about 3.5 ft across?

how did you deal with the stinger Dan? how was the fight? what did you do to dispatch the ray, are they brained as any other fish would be?

nice catch

i thought that was funny too.

those look delicious...as bug season is back and i've had the luck to eat a few already...it does remind me that i think i prefer hog to lobster...at least there are more ways to eat it that i like better...mmmmm hogs (drool)

camera looks amazing..that was also an incredible dive

easier if you ask me..let's you get all the back muscles involved by lowering the gun...i have the loading pad i glued into my suit starting at the top of my belly button going to just under the ribs and i shoot a 120 euro

i like it...but would price be the killer?

did anyone ever see that video of the surfers and the spinner sharks...at one point it looks like the surfer ducks under an airborn shark...terrifying, but very cool.

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LunkerBuster--3rd reef tops off Dania is aprox 45fsw.
IMO the conditions have to be near perfect to be able to yak freedive spearfish there.
I have paddled out there on a day that seems perfect with flat seas and cloudless skies only to find a rippin current on the 3rd:nono:
I also do not want to get caught out on the 3rd when a summer storm comes out of the West heading East :0

this is a very good point. maybe we'll have to look for passage on a motor boat to really work the third....after getting out the last two weeks I can feel my lungs coming back to me so I should be good to hunt in the 40's anytime doesn't mean i'll catch anything

wow, awesome...thanks for that info...i am really going to look into one.

and , yes, you really are the coolest person ever in that pic, not because of the killing spree you had, but because you are a good enough spearo to leave the rest there. cheers to you and your mate

what is the depth out at the third reef? 40-60?

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LB, did you swim with weightbelt AND no fins??

yes sir (D'oh!)

fortunately, after the discussion on here about proper weighting, i was down to five of Jeff's pinch weights so it was only 6.25lbs

i was only in 12- 25 ft, but it was a challenge, i was wearing a 1mm shorty too, so that helped me stay afloat.

Dan, those are definately some fns that are worth remembering....and pretty cool looking too

i wanna go....

do you launch at boat ramps or off the beach?

what does it weigh?

can you repair a puncture at sea?

Are you the coolest person ever in that picture? yes.

what system was it for?