Posts by Hookinfish

nice but your date seems off.

Looks like you guys had some fun. Congrats!

He is on the news now post op and doing as well as one could be after this type of trauma.

Hopefully he fully recovers soon.

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Nice Trigger.

If I get some time I may head for the water tomorrow. Hopefully the fish will want to cooperate.

Sounds like a tough dive John. Did you try to catch any fish on hook and line? I wonder if they would bite since they wouldn't rise for chum?

Nice Congrats on the Awa.

Quote from John Hanson

The fish hace gone deep here as well. Well below 100'. Your best bet is to go at the crack of dawn or just before sunset.

Makes sense to go during the cooler times of the day.

I figured that the angling always got better during the summer and I assumed that the spearfishing would to but if the fish are going deep that is going to make things harder.

I haven't gone out in a few weeks but I have noticed over the last few dives that the heat hasn't been much help for shore diving. Friends that have gone out recently aren't seeing many fish either but the boats are doing well. Is it time to find a cold thermacline?

Quote from phil herranen

I don't know how much difference it makes ,but 10# of steel won't weight 10# in water it will "float" a little .
Phil

You can subtract the volume of water that the steel take up using density of steel 7.85 g/cm3 and the density of fresh water 1.00g/cm3

10lbs steel x 1kilo/2.20lbs x 1000g/1kilo x 1cm3/7.85g x 1g/1cm3 x 1kilo/1000g x 2.20lbs/1kilo=1.27lb H2O

It is a small difference.

So if the float gives a buoyancy of 75lb with the steel plate in fresh water then subtract 1.27 pounds from it.

Quote from LunkerBuster

Be very very judicious with it. I litter all drizzle the bleach over the shell just to kill everything and loosen stuff up. It will pull the color out and take the top layer off the actual shell which you don't want.

After the drizzle and then the steel wool. I will rinse it really well and then do steel wool with just water to loosen the material

I have heard of muratic acid, vinegar, and chlorine too but never tried any

Hey Lunker,

Bleach is Chlorine.

Vinegar will dull the color and shine off your shells too as I learned while cleaning some abalone. Think of the vinegar and baking soda volcano experiment. Vinegar is acetic acid typically 5% off the shelf (HC2H3O2) and the shell is primarily a Calcium salt probably calcium carbonate.

Muriatic acid is the same as Hydrochloric acid or HCl (aq) I haven't tried it but it would do the same as bleach and vinegar and decompose the Calcium carbonate (CaCO3) in the shell to another salt and carbon dioxide.

So just use these chemicals sparingly.

Thats a nice picture and a nice fish!

Welcome

I believe that it is used a lot for traditional archery bows because of its resilience and strength.

Looks like you had a good trip. Nice pictures.

:bouncinboobs::tequila:
Happy Birthday!

Quote from Don Paul

Thanks...I've played with ships.;)

Cheers, Don

Looks like the ships you played with didn't get much water experience but you could have fooled me with this thread you have started. But I have to say working on a ship like in your picture must have been a lot of fun.

Cool video. Thanks for sharing.

Interesting. Never seen a kelp cutter before. Your very handy with a lot of different materials.

Looks like someone is having a nice dinner! What are the details?

Quote from reef pirate

Sarasota, FL
It's the airport code, sorry.

No worries. I wasn't familiar with the code.