Posts by Hookinfish

  • Hello all

    Nice video. It looks like your guns are interchangeable mid handle and rear handle. Do you find yourself going in between the two often?

  • Pending W.R. Dog Snapper

    So what happens when you have a pending world record fish? Can you eat it? Do you need to freeze it till someone comes and takes a look at it? What happens if you don't have an approved scale to weight it? A record is a great accomplishment but I would eat that thing in record time if filing for a record was a hassle. Just curious how one goes about that without wasting the fish? No disrespect intended, I'm just curious. :)

  • Neptonic Ordering

    I spoke to Josh the other day and he is in a tournament in Australia. Call him and leave him a message with your contact info and he should get back to you. Thats what he told me to do as I was looking at getting a float line from him. Good luck getting in touch with him.

  • Storing Fish Stock

    Well after yesterdays catch I make sashimi, cevishe and baked collar. However in all the cleaning up of the fish I used the carcass for fish stock. The problem then is what to do with all this fish stock and where should I put it in the mean time. Well I read about an idea and wanted to share.


    I strained the fish stock and then pored it into ice cube trays and froze them. I then took them out of the tray and put the fish stock cubes into a large zip lock and keep them stored in the freezer. Now when I need fish stock I can grab a handful of "ice cubes" and melt them into my pot. Just make sure not to mix your drinks with the fish stock cubes or you will be in for a surprise.

  • Pantoja's accident

    Thats a serious accident. I'm glad all is well. Perhaps some horizontal 4 inch or larger PVC pipe with a bungee and rubber on the plastic to protect the gun and hold it in would be a good way to transport the guns?

  • New to Speardiver forum

    Quote from spea feesha

    thanks for the warm welcome fellas.


    Sockeye, i will take a look, thanks.


    Hookinfish, I grew up in Waimanalo on Oahu (Homestead specifically), i speared everywhere in the vicinity. I miss the Clarity of the island waters as it is something we are not privied to here.



    The clarity is nice but I am starting to enjoy the lower visibility of California. There are a lot of ways to hide and sneak up on fish here that Hawaii doesn't have. But don't get me wrong I love diving back home too. I grew up in Kona and went to school in Waimea on the Big Island. I am just getting serious now into spear diving but always enjoyed taking my brothers equipment out for weke, uhu and papio.

  • First White Seabass for me

    Somewhere between Newport and Laguna I managed to get some dive time in my new Omer suit. I saw a group of some large opaleye and went to see if I could poke one but they all bolted to the right. I decided I will come back later for them and went left through a wall of kelp. The surge started to pull the kelp off to the left and I saw the yellow tail of the seabass. I followed it up to center mass and pulled the trigger. It wrapped up in the kelp pretty quick and I went in and grabbed my first ever WSB. It measured out at 30 inches. Not a beast but I just ate sashimi and baked collar and I also have some ceviche waiting for me in the fridge. I am definitely happy. I kept diving after that and came across a 15 pound sheephead that had half of its head missing from a previous speardiver, I imagine due to the nature of the cut. If I had one more second that sheephead would have been on my stringer but he learned the hard way about sticking around divers so he was gone. All in all it was a nice dive. Lots of small fish and decent visibility.