hi there, find some time to do some writing on the computer.
all you will excuse my bad english . i went out a week ago, to dive at some offshore rocks, a steep dropping rocky ground, with some big pinaccles, rocks and canyons. dropping straight down at 50-90ft, and then sloping down at some 300ft+.this place is normally rough and have current.
these are the places some big fish like to live. after shooting a 25pound rainbowparrot with my
riffe comp 4x, i handed the boatman the gun to pull in the fish, and he handed me my next gun, my brand new second hand riffe comp.3x, so i can continue diving one time. the 3 rubbers on that gun was a little too long, because they where the backup rubbers from the longer gun.
so i dive down in this big canyon, to land down on one of this big rocks at the bottom at about 50ft.
i hold on to a small seafan that is growing on top the rock, looking down the canyon into the deep with
a vis. of about 90ft. i see some 4-6 poundschoolmaster snapper and a 15pound rainbowparrot comming out of there caves and watching me from a distance. after a while i see a big shadow coming from the deep into my direction. coming closer i make out i nice size dogteeth(cubera)snapper.
looked like 30-40pound in this crystalclean water. but the closer it comes, the bigger it finally gets.
reaching in front of the opposite wall of that canyon i am in, about 30ft away from my guntip,
a now 70+pound snapper watching me with skittish eyes. a big remora sticking on his back,
he is not sure what to do.turning himself about 3 times but not coming any closer.
i dont know how long i am already down on this rock, but just watching this beautiful fish in front of me made me realize late that i am running out of air. since the fish not looking to nervous, i decide to make my final move before my face starts turning blue. i open my eyes as wide as i can,staring at the snapper, pulling myself of the rock and gliding towards the fish. closing the distance to the fish feet by feet, he start doing the same thing. opens his big eyes even wider, starring at me and start swimming towards me.
coming into shooting range, i start stretching out my gun arm, lining up the fish and wait for the moment he turns to show me his broadside. still in the back of my head the slack rubbers i using on my gun,
the fish finally turns, and i fire. ready for my reel to get some fire, all i hear is "bonk"! and i see my
spear on the ground and the fish swimming away easy, like nothing ever happened. i hit him right at the hardest part of the gillplate, and the spear bounced back like hitting a rock. back in the boat i decide not to use the smaller gun today anymore, and tryed to get over this story as fast as possible by shooting some more fish.
here the picture of my boatman holding a nice size rainbowparrot from that day.
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well, i know this was not diving in some tropical waters, but it was still under water.
while spending a visit to switzerland in summer 2008, i went and do what i normally trying to avoid. entering the water without a speargun. carryied my cam instead. this is the river "limmat" , zurichs biggest river , that flows all the way through the city. in the summer very popular for people bathing all along the river.
10 years ago there was europes biggest open drug-szene located just along the river at this place where you see me diving. after they closed down that szene, i went and dive there the following summer.
very creepy. needles,spoons, knives,cellphones,bicycles,guns,amunition, covered the ground. along with samurai-sword, parking-meter, money-safe, church-donationbox, basically anything that the junkies carried to that place in exchange for drugs, and been throwing into the river during the many police-raids.
at that time i picked up 135 of the same famous swiss-armyknife in two days. the dealers used them to portioned the drugs.
the same summer the towns diving-policesquad made a big riverclean up. the foto with the things they pulled out that river made it to the frontpage of the local paper. apperntly i did not found all the guns.
anyway, after that year they continued doing a yearly river clean up.
but as you can see in my vid, there are still some "good stuff" to find.
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thanks so far for your tips. i am not much of a craftsman, so i think for now i will just use this gun as my backupgun and aim a little higher.
marco, i am kind of konservative when it comes to my speargun. the riffe used to work fine for me, so i stick to it.
lunker, if i would been living in the us, i would probably contact riffe about that problem. but from down here i dont want to go through all that.
anyway, bought a second hand riffe comp.3x last week, so i gonna use this one as my premiergun.
got a nice fish with it already today, pics and report coming soon.
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my riffe competitor 4x is about 6 -7 years old. had been intensivly used and i never really took much care of it. dont wash it with fresh water every day, never sand and oil it too much. maybe once every 1-2 month.
two years ago it got lost and been 3 weeks loaded under water, before a friend found it.
recently i discovered that i shooting plenty fish too low. i figured thats because my spears always bend up.
but now i watched down the gun and see that the gun itself bend. i sticked a needle at the top and the end of the gun right in the line of the lamination and tight a nylon between. and my eye didnt fooled me. watching the straight line seeing that it getting a distance of about 3.5mm at the middle of the gun from the line of the lamination. could this cause the lower shooting ? anyway to straighten this out ?
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came from diving the other day, and went to buy food. the most annoying question for fisherman:
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hey dan,
i dont wear a wetsuit. thats just a long lycra-joggingpants. lying on the bottom, srowling over rocks and
firecoral with just a thin layer of lycra over some sensitive areas of the body, can cause some trouble.
so its mainly for protection. and it just became a habit.
abouit the vid, thats what we started to do a while now. on days with good vis and once we have made a good catch already, we filming each other at least on two dives.
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hi there,
had some time again, so i just edited our material that we filmed on our latest dive excursion in febr.
dont know,hope the quality of the vid shows ok. the water was nice that day, a bit cold, current ok,
1-2 knots ( for where we went thats good), sorry i missed to go down in time to film the groupershot.
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hi metelin,
when i did post these pics i didnt mention that all the catch was done with comercial purpose.
i thought it was obvious, and most members would already know that.
that day, my boatman had a order from a long year customer for 10 pound of rocklobster for his wifes birthday. so i really pushed it a bit in order to achieve that goal. and catching such an amount in daytime is not so easy. i ended up with 15 pound in 3 hours. in the same place at night you would probably catch 2-3 times more. if you can load so fast <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">
critics are always welcome, as long as they come in an constructive way.
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yeah, they are very good eating. i go for them at night sometimes. those where caught at day. not much people hunt them here, mostly because they dont even know they are there.
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hi there,
since i learned to resize pics, i will try to post some more now and then.
here some pics of my catches this week, with my highlight on wendsday, catching 30 rockies (rocklobster or spanish lobster?) in 3 hours. found a really nice ground.
all the best....blessingshere pics from monday and tuesday
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lunker,
to prevent you from throwing up while grunting, you could try to eat some beans and peas two hours before the dive, farting does do the trick as well. <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"> -
hey fishmaster,
no its not a vermillionsnapper. you get a picture of one ? not sure if i ever saw one. do they get big ? -
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josh, from australias west coast showed up, and we went out for some diving. once more it turned out that beside beeing able to dive good depth and having a good bottomtime, wich he have, to me its always more important that a diver have a good hunting style and instinct and could handle himself in all conditions. they teach him well in western australia.
great diving josh,respect.here some pics of some catches....
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hi,
i would like to recommend this video for all you to watch.for some reason this vid dont get much attention on youtube, but i find it worth watching. david is a young diver(19) from the azores who dive and film very well. a good example how useful it can be to been able to equalizing without use of hands. as you will see sometimes he have cam in one, and gun in the other hand. all the best -
i just started doing it . never thought about it. but it is very useful when diving for rocklobster, one hand lobstergun, one hand the light. also find it makes the much better videos of shooting fish with cam in one hand and gun in the other, then mounting the cam on the gun.
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dan,
i using a canon powershot 650 is, and the canon housing for it.wouldntbuy it again, because the qaulity of the filming is the same with most canon cams, i would buy a cheaper,smaller and lighter cam.lunker, never heard of anyone having problems with barracudas and cigua down here. popular food fish, people buy them in all sizes, up to 50-60 pounds.
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