Posts by LunkerBuster

sweet, that is a PIG of a fish.

thanks for the report...how deep is that water at 100 m from shore?

awesome jeff, very cool.

the spear is beautiful too

this sounds awesome....i would love to try this once season reopens with some bugs, off john lloyd or something

interesting point...this adds a whole additional factor to consider beyond just hunting, that being practical considerations for just seeing underwater, look at belt/stringer, see your knife on your leg or upper arm...

I generally try to be able to do everything i want/need to underwater by feel just in case, that way in an emergency I could cut myself free from a tangle blind. that said, I would still rather be able to see while the mask is on

Quote from Aaron Proffitt

Have always thought this myself ....

Here's another.

Submerge your self into a fast moving, cold-water river/stream... you will feel like you have an inexhaustible supply of oxygen . You don't even think about surfacing . What gives ?

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very true...I think it has to be the mammalian reflex times 10...I once got into a stream I was doing some whitewater rafting on in CO and even though we were at the take out spot, there was still good current.

I went under to get the dust and dirt off and it was incredible...I ended up borrowing a pair of swim goggles and trying to just work my way up the river to try to spot some trout underwater..I felt like i could stay face down for EVER..it was awesome.

good points Dan, to be sure, i only would add that i do both scrutinize a small area and glance about trying to take very large mental pictures of structure and potential prey.
it is in this second view where the larger field of view come into play. I would not say the half a second of early warning is why hau gets every mack in the ocean, but it might be that the ones that are outside of some spearos mask field can be seen by hau and then he turns his head.

i think that there might be mor ehere than mask difference, it might boil down to hunting style

well hau uses it and swears it is the greatest thing ever...fuck sliced bread

that looks like the Sight by Riffe too, I bet it is just lower volume.

clearly Dan, I do not assume you are trying to position this mask as better for personal gain, I know you well enough to believe that you are an honest and wise man seeking to share and gather said knowledge.

It is in the same vein that I am sharing my experience.

I found the minima extremely comfortable, like crazy comfy, i just found that while i was diving with it i would find myself panning my head left to right and sometimes doing so with my head at strange angles, think looking under a ledge while dealing with current.
this is when I found small leaks would occur, when my skin and face was distorted. I was thinking that with my Sight mask, I dont have to turn my head as far and I can scan with just my eyes, this distorts my face less and gives less of the impression to the prey that I am watching them, or so I imagine.

i find that perhaps the term peripheral vision is part of the problem. While i do value my peripheral vision for spearing because I can see a lot of movement better, it do usually use my main field of vision to actually hunt. the issue is then about the field of view that you can see without turning your head. This is where the minima fails in my humble opinion.

i look forward to trying a few more of Hau's masks so I can give a better review having only ever used my Riffe Sight, a cressi minima, a cressi occhio and a shitty us diver mask in bitching blue

the one thing that i found was annoying about the minima was the fact that, because I needed to move my head so much more to see the same area, I found many positions where the mask might leak or lose it's suction on my face and I find that I experience a lot less of this with my Sight mask, perhaps because i dont have to turn my head as far to see the same area

Dan, I have to disagree with you about your assessment of the value of peripheral vision. I find that I see many types of fish almost exclusively due to my peripheral vision, especially macks.
Remember that skeet shooters are taught to look next to the launch hut because of how much better your peripheral sensors are at detecting movement.
the ability to keep ones head fixed forward and still track a fish to the side is also a big plus as it gives you more time before alerting the fishing that he is being hunted.

while I don't dispute that someone might be able to still see just as much with a smaller field of view, and in fact it might be just as easy if it is so much easier to turn your head. I just feel that your conclusion about peripheral vision was incorrect

hau, you are an inspiration always..where do you find these mermaids

watch for bulls in the IC..I've seen em cruising there

i think aaron's last comment revealed something to me.

the reason this is so difficult to discuss is that there are many factors here

the desire to hunt can be broken down into many personal sub genres that are all present in each of us, to different degrees
for example:
desire to hunt :
hunger
provide for family
bloodlust
need to exert dominance
hobby
patterned behavior
each of these are not mutually exclusive, nor are they the full limit, it just seems to me that sometimes I might go out diving because i want to smell the ocean (i have been a sea rat all my life and I need to taste and smell salt water to stay sane) I might pass on a lot of less than delicious fish because i want to get a tasty fish (desire to provide good food for family) i might stay out a little longer to get a few tasty fish (hunger) and i might get a little more pleasure from a brief battle with a mack or cuda( bloodlust) cos no matter how elicious they are, hogs dont fight.

so a single dive for me is about many factors and while I can relate to the desire to kill something to prove my dominnce, my conservation instinct kicks in and tells me that the price of my actions might not equal the value, so I don't shoot the shark.

i don't have a problem with the notion of trying to get all of your primal needs met, but I dont see the answer in over induldging (sp) and that is what this mark the shark guys is all about to me

im off monday...sounds like fish are gonna die

well what i have seen is none of those things pictured...it lacks the long fin on the top and has a decidedly tubular body

holy shit...i bet that was a site...prolly was waiting in the water and the hog got thirsty and SNAP! lunch

beautiful beasts...thanks for the lesson...

dan...first off, great thread

I would recommend you try some frech thyme and rosemary...these are amazing herbs that I cook with so much I now grow them to save money...i mix finely chopped in w ground beef for burgers or fish cakes, I stuff whole sprigs of roemary into the fish cavity when I grill or broil whole fish.

I am a big fan of crushed red pepper and curry (jamaican) with a little coconut flesh...awesome for chicken

I also recommend trying a little bit of high quality balsamic vinegar on your steak next time..it is awesome and if you like the flavor, look up bistec balsamico..it is an italian preparation where the meat is soaked in expensive balsamic that will change your life

one other move that I am very partial too is to marinat esteaks in a little red wine and some soy sauce and lots of coarse salt and ground black pepper

man i love to talk about food

i have seen small sea snakes many time off vista and dania...they are often banded brown and white and they are always in and around fan corals, i have seen them moving and investigated because i thought it was an octopus and all i could see was the tentacle...

I'd say ive seen four or five

i assume since you said you had tried all the meds you knew about that you tried melatonin (sp) it supposedly triggers the hormonal sleep cycles by taking it and it is just an herb so it souldn't have any nasty effects... one other thing you might want to try is doing a little bit of exercise about an hour or two before you want to sleep. I know of this working both ways, for some folks it wakes them up and gets thier body going, but for me, I am out like a baby.

good luck buddy, sounds pretty rough