Posts by nix

Quote from gerald

Welcome Nix.

I have many fond memories of TnT. The girls especially. Unfortunately that was before my diving days, and I never made in the water.

I will likely pass through again on my way to, and back from Guyana. If you are up for a dive let me know, and I'll add a few days to my trip so we can link up. Will likely be middle December or March/April

Where on the Island are you? I have a few places I can stay around PoS.

Gerald

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I'm always up for a dive. You'll have to let me know when you can come and we can make some plans. I live in Cascade near the Savannah.

Quote from Dude george

Nix I was told you got some monster Jew fish on that kayak of yours, true story?

Yeah, I've shot a few good ones. I'm not sure if it's politically correct for me to put up pics of it here but it's completely legal.

Quote from Dude george

Nix, my buddy said he knows a really good spero shoot matching your description, do you fish off of a kayak?

I do 80% of my spearing of a kayak. It's good fun, good exercise and you can get to a huge number of spots to dive once it's within 5km from shore. It might be me or one of my brothers your friend is talking about.

Quote from Dude george

Nix thats why you guys have all my respect, I just dont want anything that bad...hhahahahahah :laughing: Maybe one day I might wana learn that skill set but not now
Never shot A cobia but I hear they are some of the hardest fighting fish, any tips to share about you fighting them?

Like any big fish get the first shot right. Luckily cobia are curious and slow moving. If your lying on the bottom or just still they get curious. Shoot aiming for the spine behind the gills or behind the eye. You won't always stone them but after that wrestle them away from structure. They like to swim around rocks or any structure to get cut off. Be patient and don't try to grab them early in the gills. You might get your hands in and then get your wrist broken. If you have a second gun shoot it again in the head. They're strong bastards.

Generally I find that lying on the bottom is the best strategy for most fish in dirty water(and in clear too). You'll only get to shoot them if you don't look like a threat. The hard thing in dirty water is lying on the bottom down deep not being able to see a fish approaching or in the distance that makes the whole area seem less fishy and more spooky. Don't worry about sharks; Trinidad doesn't have too many. Tobago has more sharks but the water is clear.

Quote from Dude george

Kahalel was not saying anything bad about trini diving bro, you guys have more fish than any other island i know of...I was saying your vis is bad and it is compared to up island as we dont get the massive river run offs you get locally and from the huge South American rivers only a few miles off your shores that cloud your vis... Its like the Cali boys and their massive fish in the kelp gardens, no way your catching me in shark infested waters with 10-20 foot vis as the norm shooting HUGE fish :crazy: I am a very spoilt fella though, if it is less than 20ft I aint going and obviously I dont have the talent for it ..lol...

I shot my two cobia over 60 pounds in 10 foot and less viz. You get some visibility here, it's all relative. Compared to the rest of the Caribbean we average dirtier even on clear days. We do have a lot of big fish though, but you need to know where to look for them.

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Welcome man! I'm currently in Grenada in medical school. Hoping to make a trip down to TNT to spear in a few months!

Let me know two weeks before you come or more and maybe we can organise a trip. What's your comfortable hunting depth? Are you comfortable shooting wood guns? If so, maybe you can borrow rather than have to travel with your gun.

Quote from Josediaz

Nice gun, to build using local wood?

greetings.

I built it with locally grown teak. De que parte de Venezuela vives?? Fui a Venuinezuela muchas veces como un niño.

Trinidad doesn't have clear water. It's true. We are the ass of the Caribbean and things get brown very often.

This is the newest gun I built. I'll be ballasting and balancing it this coming weekend.

I have two more on the way at different stages that I'm also working on.

I built the gun. It was my first build. I finished it late last year and I'm finishing up another right now. I used a nylon rope on a break-way that day. This one was 40lbs. I shot a 61lb cobia 2 weekends ago that was a lot more troublesome.

George, what's the diving like in St. Vincent? Much life?

Dog snappers are curious but weary in my experience. If I find a hole that holds a school I try to do aspetto dives at a distance and shoot them as they come to check me out. Sometimes they can be very curious. I don't like charging a hole to shoot them since this will spook every fish in that hole.

This is me with a cobia I shot recently from an evening shoredive. I hope I did this correctly.

Dude george - I don't know those people you're talking about but half my family is from Grenada. the Dopwells and De Cauls. Maybe we could link up for a dive in one of the islands sometime.

Thanks for the welcome and tips on uploading.

As the title indicates, I'm a Trini, meaning that I come from Trinidad and Tobago in the Caribbean.

I freedive spearfish only and enjoy putting a shaft in good fish. Fish is tasty and I'll eat it everyday if I'm given the chance. I sometimes go out on boats but use my kayak primarily as it's a cheap way of going to spots up to 5km away on any part of the islands. Could someone tell me how to upload a photo on this forum??

I look forward to participating in this forum, sharing my knowledge and learning a lot from other's experience.

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Nicholas