Posts by Treebilly3

Just thought the Alaska portion of this forum could use some help.
I did a beach dive after work yesterday for about 3 hours. The spot is a common place that many people frequent so it's dodging boats on the out side and hooks coming shore side. Water was really warm pushing 60! And the vis about 12'. Most of my time was spent on one rock pile in about 8ft of water where the salmon are funneled by because of the bottom contour. I would hug a rock no the bottom(I was way under weighted for this shallow of water) and wait for a school to swim by. It's a little late in the year for kings but was still able to pick up two I also got to pinks and one flounder. I don't usually shoot flounder but this one was swimming about a foot off bottom and about 8' from me, it was a can I hit that moment. Flounder from the side make for a thin target.
This was my fist time using a camo suit and I must say it made a huge difference from the black suits iv had. The salmon didn't seem to notice me till Id moved to shoot. Love it.

I'm not sure if this would apply to lion fish but up here we have a lot of different species of rock fish that burn like crazy when you get stuck by their spines. You scrape the mucus from inside the fishes mouth and rub it on the cut and it stops the burning feeling. Doesn't help with swelling though. A comical fisherman told me this and I called BS till I got stuck in the hand while cleaning one and tried it. Now people look at me funny when I say try it it works! At least with rock fish.

Thanks for the review! I've been looking to replace my aging Cressi matrix mask but was too worried about the fit to do so.

Thanks for the idea I really do need a separate setup for salmon. I use that gun for everything and I set it up with halibut in mind, I don't see many but when I do I like being able to go threw the fish and sick in the sand/gravel its resting on. I don't know what others use for flat fish but it works for me.
We have pinto abalone. a big one will be 5-6" minimum legal size is 3 1/2" so not the biggest in the world but they taste good

The water in the summer isn't to bad with surface water temp usually around 50-55f but at depth or open water its much colder. Yes we can shoot salmon the only laws here on spear fishing is saltwater only, you must be fully submerged and regular sport fishing bag limits and seasons apply. Here is a king I shot a few years ago

it was a bad shot but in my defense they are very spooky fish and this one was swimming toward and above me.

Hello everyone. I came across this forum while looking for a new wet suit and after looking threw some of the posts on the subject that completely changed my original ordering ideas I thought I'd join. Most of my spearfishing experience is from what iv done here in South East Alaska for the last 20 years. Cold water, low viz, thick suits and lots of lead is all I really know, but some day I hope to try the warm water stuff. Iv been slacking the last few years not getting out as much as I'd like and the times I do get out its usually for scallops and abalone only shooting the occasional lingcod. Spear fishermen around here are rare, free divers even more so. So I really look forward to the sharing of ideas with like minded people