Posts by Oscar

  • Lesson in humility yesterday

    Hank - thanks fr sharing, so easy to get complacent and mother nature can, and does, teaches us a valuable lesson from time to time. I suspect we have all done something similar.


    So glad you taught Mo the basics. Might be good to discuss basics to everyone new on your bat "just in case."


    The bugs and no see ums would have made your night miserable had you had to spend the night waiting fr someone to get you while your wife would have suffered more than you.


    Glad you are safe. Still pissed at your envious life <img src= " class="smiley" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x" height="23" width="23" loading="eager" data-tooltip="biggrin" aria-label="biggrin">

  • Antigua spearfishing reports

    Nice mixed bag George. Triple tail too. I don't recal seeing Blue Runners that big. Took my kids blue water fishing for first time last summer in Panama - left all fish for them except a big 120 lb Sail that was too big for them (Catch & release by me). I too have run into small baby Dorados like you found. Never thought about the connection to full or this super moon.

  • Cuba hogfish spearfishing video

    Quote from virgili

    I have been using to hunt in the reef by foccusing only on a couple of specie.
    Should be a cubera I did,nt hesitate!
    A one old habit I can'nt give up... that's coming from years hunting in the Med Sea...


    Donde en Cuba Es esto? Where in Cuba? Which coast? I've lays wanted to dive somewhere along the southern coast of Cuba - seemed like clearest water, most reefs, and less traffic.

  • Cuba hogfish spearfishing video

    Gracias clear shallow water with nice fish and beautiful bugs. Obviously unspoilt. That is probably where I should plan my next dive trip. Any hints on contacts to travel and spearfish in Cuba? Reminds me of diving in Panama in the early days and would be great if I could arrange this - could collect some dive gear to leave when with the local spears.


    Any reason the nice grouper at the 50 second mark wasn't speared?

  • New Member from Huntington Beach

    Quote from Linghunt

    You started diving in the 1950"s or when you were 50 ?


    Had a customer last summer who was 75 from San Diego Area, wanted custom tips for shooting Northern Pike with Grandsons in Montana. He will probably still be going strong when he's 90. He looked 60-ish from pictures.


    Ha ha -started early 50's when I was 10-11 years old. Our gear was very primitive but we speared some big fish. I still spear fish but the deep long dives are a thing of the past :@

  • New Member from Huntington Beach

    Quote from somlt1

    Linghunt, Right now I'm just getting into it so just starting to buy the necessities. I have fins mask and snorkel all from cressi. I do need to get a spearo camo wet suit, weights, and belt. Then the gun that is the hardest choice for me so far i have looked at the Cressi Comanche 110 and also looked into the Mako guns. I would rather not throw a ton of cash at this right away since I'm sure I will figure out what i really want or like after I get more experience.


    Don't buy the speargun from Mako - get one here from Dan. Better speargun at same price.


    Same for wetsuit. Buy it here from Dan.


    Same for weight belt - buy it from Dan


    Weights buy local because of shipping cost related to weight.


    Good luck and welcome - I started in early 50's freediving/spearfishing and still love it. Can't dive worth a sxxt anymore :nono: - but still love it and try to go somewhere to dive at least once a year. Great sport.

  • Ceviche, crudo or any other way?

    I grew up in a culture and country with ceviche an almost daily treat - Panama. The Panamanian style is simple: fresh Corvina cut into small cubes, Aji chombo (habanero), diced onion, salt and small limes (key limes) and nothing else.


    Traveling brought me into contact with very different styles of Ceviche all different and all good. Those from Mexico, Costa Rice, El Salvador, Colombia, and then my favorite the Peruvian Ceviche made in front of your using Lenguada (flat fish I think). I also found the Baja style different from other parts of Mexico.


    Bottom line is how different Ceviche is in different countries, regions of countrys, but they are all good.


    You are making me hungry but a good ceviche requires fresh fish which is hard to find, along with Key Limes, here landlocked in north Texas so will wait until I return to mother ocean in August. I occasionally make it here but just not the same - maybe need the ocean breeze along with other ingredients <img src= " class="smiley" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x" height="23" width="23" loading="eager" data-tooltip="biggrin" aria-label="biggrin">

  • Changes to Elliot key / Biscayne National Park Rules/Regs.

    Before moving from South Florida to Singapore in 2002 - me and a friend made a spearfishing trip in his boat where he drove and I dove. Very easy to lose track (no GPS) of exactly where you are. We got busted for illegally spearfishing in restricted areas of Key Largo. Fortunately I hadn't seen anything big enough to spear and had by passed several Gags and Muttens that may have been legal. $200.00 fine regardless of not having a fish in the boat but I was in the water with a loaded speargun when busted.


    Getting harder on both coasts, primarily Florida South East and California.


    The future looks tougher for spearos X(X(

  • Shooting 30lb+ Dolphin, found a pallet 2014

    Ha ha - we used to shoot the triple-tail, we called them Black Snapper, often under the corrosion test structure on the Anador causeway along the Pacific entrance to the Panama Canal. Very good eating but hard to spear in the almost always murky water. No guilt but I do agree that under sargasso weed and drift lines - they are too easy to shoot and I rarely shot them there. The old fish in a barrel :nono:


    Nice Dorado and nice video in some very clear water. Forgot what gun you use - Koah 65? Sure is a lot of gun but you do get some nice fish with it. 3 or 4 size 14 or 16mm bands??


    Thanks for sharing.

  • Why a float line is safer than a reel

    Quote from hank

    One practice I've tried to adopt on all fish of any size and or depth, is to stay with my buddy. If Jake shot the fish and is pulling up the reel line, I have his gun and am winding it back on the reel so there is no bunch of loose line on the surface. My biggest concern, reel line or float, is a big shark grabbing the fish out of nowhere and bolting for the bottom. It's happened and fortunately nothing was wrapped around any part of me or Jake. But if it had been, there isn't much you can do except try to get your knife fast….and equalise…..fast because you'd be dropping faster than any stone.


    This reminded me of the time when I speared a big Jewfish, probably 400 pounds, at 30-40 feet over a deep drop off. My float line was a store bought nylon yellow ski rope tied to my speargun that jammed over a lead weight on my weight belt.


    I was going down FAST while trying to lift the line off the lead weight. Finally pulled it off at around 80 feet and shot to the surface and watched my float and gun disappear forever. Would I have ditched my weight belt in time? Who knows - hard to second guess what happens so quickly.


    Scary shit. And it always happens fast and unexpectly.

  • Nate died spearfishing, Sunday 6/8/2014

    Quote from hau

    Dan, will we be able to buy the FRV from the Freedive Store?


    I am unable to get this tragedy off my mind. Just drove home over two days from a family celebration and just can't get this off my mind.


    One of my recurrent thoughts s what if Nate was wearing a FRV????????? Thanks for bringing it up HAU - I was going to when I got home but glad you did - thanks.


    Something to consider.


    Dan - we weren't there. Hashing what if won't bring Nate back. And Andrew jumping in blind after finding hs gear assuming in wasnt still in his gear bag would not ave changed anything at that point IMHO. My suggestion is to drop that view.


    It hurts and I can't imagine how much this hurts Andrew, let's not make it worse please.

  • Wet suit line for women

    Wet suits! What wet suits? <img src= " class="smiley" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x" height="23" width="23" loading="eager" data-tooltip="biggrin" aria-label="biggrin">