Thanks don! I doubt the misses would let me go out if my dive buddy looked like that :laughing:
Posts by Treebilly3
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Billy are you certified ?
Cheers, Don
Yes Padi advanced, But I haven't used my gear in a few years. To much crap to pack down the dock!
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All gear is disposable. Just leave it and hunt shallower next time.
I by no means want to risk death over a fish or a gun. I do feel though that if you shoot some thing you should do every thing you can to retrieve it, so if it means throwing my scuba gear on the boat I guess ill do it.
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Guess I could have explained my set up to make it easier on you guys. I shoot a riffe #1metal tech with the large threaded head. The gun is only like 38" so two wraps doesn't really give that much distance. It has 3 5/8 bands so overpowered maybe, but It's dead on out to the end of two wraps, I will be switching shafts this winter to the single flopper. Most all my diving is on steep rock shelf/cliffs where I hunt the small benches on the way down. Many times I shoot fish from say a small shelf at 50' and the water below the fish is over 100' so it's steep! That's why this problem is kind of new to me. My shaft will hang up on the ledges but I usually just swim a little toward open/deeper water and wiggle it free.
I don't have the problem of the shaft getting stuck in the hole it was that it passed threw the fish because it was a close shot and he had plenty of line to get about 4' back in a hole. That was my fault for not stopping him but like I said its never been a real issue before.
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Thanks monster this is a new problem for me. The fish here don't usually have holes deep enough to make a recovery dive necessary. It's usually the shaft getting hung up that cause a second dive on a fish. My dive partner is still working on hitting 20' so it'll be a while before he's much help.
I'm just thinking one of those small spare air bottles could be attached to my float so I wouldn't have to make the long swim back to the boat. It wouldn't give much time but I think it be enough. -
I'm wondering how do you guys recover fish that get tangled in the rocks or just get wedged in a hole at the limits of your diving ability?
I comfortably hunt to 60' I feel any thing deeper and my bottom time is to short to do much. It was just over 60' that I had a fish hole up so bad I had to cut my shooting line to get back my gear! I made many dives trying to pull him out of the hole spending a large amount of time at the surface recovering from the hard work. I started thinking (if only I had a tank!) I'm now wondering if any one uses those small bottles of spare air to recover gear/fish. I realize the dangers I just feel If I could have had a solid minute or two to work on it I would not have had to waste that fish:(On another note it was a good reason for me to use two wraps of mono! I just retied the cut line to the gun with one wrap and was able to finish my day and my limit of fish with out leaving the water :thumbsup2:
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Cool video! What model Riffe are you using?
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You can get a severe rash from the urine. Your wetsuit will get really smelly over time - and it's hard to get rid of the smell..
Thanks, iv never gotten a rash from wearing a wetsuit so all I could think of the reason for this was to possibly stay warmer. Do they ever leak water in? I'd think that's the last place in a suit I want water coming in. -
Id say your right Dan I doubt many Americans would use this me being one. Having said that if I thought it would improve my diving comfort then I'd probably try it.
- and you DON'T piss your pants. So pissette it is.
Why is that? Iv never tried one but also never felt that urinating in my suit made me colder or shortened my time in that temp of water. I'm always interested in what you guy's over there are doing because its more like my area then the rest of the US. -
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Thanks for that. I had not seen this video and while iv read a lot on the subject I still found it very helpful. I have never even met some one who free dives so i feel videos like these can be game changers for the self taught.
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Got to love Guinness!
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Nice video!
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I'm hoping for a night vision function, but longer battery life would be nice too.
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Thanks Sam that's what I wanted to see with my light and it looks like the videos would have come out looking like an old horror movie. It look as if the light would also make the camera adjust to the brightness of the beam and make every thing out side of it even darker.
I agree Dan to much gear dose take the fun out of it. That's the main reason I haven't scuba dived in 4-5 years. You've also given me a tuff choice! The possibility of a new gopro (hero4?)for some reason hadn't crossed my mind. So do I jump on the good deal now or hold out a the winter to see what better unit might come out. I really hate electronics some times!!!
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Has any one used both the hd hero and the hero3 in the water? I'm wondering after seeing some videos comparing the two in low light on land if I shouldn't just upgrade to the hero3 before putting another $80-90 in to the one I have. I know upgrading won't solve the problem but will it help much?
I have a large dive light that ill mess around with to see how the video looks before I buy a small head mounted one.
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:laughing: thanks Dan! No I have not and that explains some issues I had when playing around with it in the shallows. Every thing I was trying to film was out of focus but the background would look nice. Ill give that a try and the red filter.
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Sorry I should have said in my original post that I did touch up the brightness a bit with windows live movie maker but I haven't used the program much so I'm not really sure how much better I could get it. Ill work at that.
I like the filter but I don't know that it will work on the one I have. I believe my gopro is the old model, it has the round lens port.
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Took out my gopro hero for the first time in the water. I was wondering what others do in low light conditions? leave it at home:rolleyes1: Would up grading to the Hero3 black make a big improvement? If a light is my only option is their a head mount one that works best? Id like to stay away from strapping any thing else to my head so a light is at the bottom of my list even though I'm sure its what is needed.
It was over cast this day and Id say more common than not as far as the conditions I have to video/dive in. the Rock fish video was in about 40' all videos this day over 50' were unusable because of low light and murky water that moved in later with the tied.rockfishheadshot_zpsb510d82f.mp4 Video by Marvin_Mccloud | Photobucket
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Is there normally such a difference in coloration between individuals? I find his 2nd one's "camo" pleasing to the eye.
It's the difference between male and female. That's the first brown one Iv taken which was female. All of the browns Iv seen in the past were small under 3' and I used to think color had to do with age and size because as baby's they are orange. As for camo of the males it is nice but you can see them a long ways off so I think it's more for flash and defense then for hiding
Id agree with Anders in that ours have a shellfish taste but its very slight the meat is firm and holds together well while cooking. If you like rock fish you will like wolf eel -
Went out today after work to try my gopro setup for the first time and ended up getting another wolf eel. The water was really murky in the top 20' viz maybe 3' once below it the viability opened up to about 25' but that surface water made it so dark down at 55' wear I found this guy that the video came out black. At least now I know how much light it needs.
