Posts by black1

lol, lunker you fell for it...lol.

I bought a Riffe hammock, it is made out of hundred's of Riffe bands.

Welcome.

Glad you guys finally made it here, great bunch of people, don't forget to post that video we have, that is some great phootage.

I will for sure and post them here.

Nice wins, gonna love the class, good people Kirk and Mandy are, I am going to the Keys with them on the 14th and 15th to freedive "scooter" the Vanderberg wreck and hopefully spear with my friends Ren and Ashley, they are having an Intermediate course down there starting the 17th.

Nice day on the water Rolo, thanks for sharing.

Welcome to the forum Mike, glad to have you here.

Terry said it would retail for roughly $3,000, but this could change I suppose and no one really knows until it is final. I am sure many will say WOW that is expensive and yes it is to some, but like all new things after some time the price may drop and besides how much is your life worth? I solo alot and have just recently started a family so to me saving up for this could be the difference of coming home to my family or not after a after a day of what I love to do and want to keep on doing it.
Even if I am not soloing, usuallywhen I dive with other people they are not always watching you as they should or some choose not to at all and just want to get the hunt started, it's just how it is and if I had a dedicated spearo partner that was ok with 1 up and 1 down each time we dove I would be stoked and probably put this off for awhile, but until I find someone I am saving up for this.

Hello Don

I also spoke to Terry just about 2 weeks ago about this vest and told him to put one on order for me and thanked him for developing such a vest, he said he was about 10 months out for production and we talked about the fit and how it operates with the swipe or push of a button, I then asked if we will see him at the BlueWild expo here in Florida and he mentioned that he had club meeting for the Blue Water meet and could not make it, I guess this is the same one you are participating in? look forward to hearing all about it.

The one in my right hand is mine, shot a stone shot on him just behind the head, they have tough heads too and spear did not go through him. Thanks Lunker

Thanks all, yes my friends were very happy with our waters, Dan the water was actually really cold and my 3mm felt great, it is weird how the waters are going from warm to cold up North of here.
My weight belt and weights to be real honest with you felt like I had none on at all, it worked as you said and really was very comfortable to the point I forgot I had them on, nice and snug up against my body and perfect amount of weight, especially for the deeper dives we did.

Thanks hau, yes it was great to see friends again and show them a great time while here, now I need to go put some lotion on my burnt face...lol.

This Port St Lucie section is the closest to were we dove today so I placed it here. My friends from Qatar came in for the expo and wanted to dive so we called up Chad Palin to see if he wanted to dive and of course he said yes so we headed North early in the morning. We hit several wrecks and several really nice reefs and ledges for a full day of spearing. The vis was top to bottom in the morning and then became less as the day wore on, but still good enough. The depths all day started at 65ft and went up to 96ft as we got deeper, one of the highlights was spotting and then being surrounded by a HUGE pod of around 200 or more spotted dolphins...very rare around here and we swam for over 25 minutes with them and were able to rub there bellies.
Everywere we looked were dolphins swimming with us in clear blue 85ft of water, baby dolphins were everywere with there mothers and it was incredible. We were welcomed to some of the deeper wrecks by huge bullsharks that made themselves known , but caused no problems for us so we continued to hunt. Lot's of big Goliath groupers on the wrecks as well and saw runners, permit, muttons which all were skittish and could not get shots on although I tried for the permit (chad is a commercial spearo and has permits). All on all we got 1 big runner, a grouper and both Khalid and I shot decent size amberjacks.

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Hey welcome to a great Spearfishing forum were we talk and discuss Spearfishing...I know can you believe it? great bunch here as you will soon meet, take care.

Hello all

I am leaving this month for a trip and need to get a good speargun traveling bag to hold 2 spearguns and shafts and maybe a few other things, I would like it to be secure, padded and easily traveled with. If anyone has a particular brand that has worked well for them during travels please let me know the brand and maybe were to purchase it.

I was thinking about placing the guns in a surfboard bag along with my shafts secure in a small diameter pvc tube, but was concerned about other luggage being tossed on the board bag and damaging my guns and the surfboard.

"what fish are those?"

Mangrove Jack and Purple Cod

Yeah looks like his shaft were he crimps/ties it, is low on the shaft were it locks into the mech and needs a smaller diameter. I never had any problem with 300 or 400lb mono only because I use Riffe shafts with sharkfin tabs for crimping to.

http://riffe.com.au/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=286

Look at this setup, what do you all think is the white string attached to the shaft and then to his mono? do you think it is a small bungee? doesn't look like dyneema so I think it may be a small bungee to help give a little so as not to rip out of a fish? my guess. What is the benefit, purpose or reason for such a setup?

Don Paul have you seen this before? in your experience what is the purpose, thanks all.

"But I like pipe guns WAY better now."

Could you give me a few quick reasons why? just curious.