Posts by tinu

  • Spearfishing Club Name

    i think one of the best things that could happen to a spearfishingclub is that some daughters would join the club. so dont call it sons of neptunes.

  • Cool video's

    hi,
    yeah, that vid is from my channel. sorry it end up in this freedivingforum.
    i did that vid just for fun,for some friends from trinidad, who i regulary dive with. these guys diving the oil rigs on trinidads eastcoast. the conditions over there hardly ever makes it possible to succesfully freediving. hard currents, very dirty layers of orinoco waters, rough sea, and a lot more difficulties. but good fish.
    dan, the things you see there are pieces of a wreck, a english freighter wich was shot by a german submarine in 1944. these are copperpipes and brassplates. like to pick them up.
    i think there are better vids on this channel to post here. like this one, where richard p.junior made one of his first attempt on underwaterfilming. hope he will join this forum just now.


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBp9cOv6sIk

  • parrotfish

    catching and eating parrotfish in trinidad/tobago have a long tradition. specially in tobago people used and still do catch them on line, from the rocks. since then people also call them rockfish down here. but the more common name here is chub.
    mostly the stoplight and the queen parrot fish are caught that way. best bait for them is those handsize brownish/greenish crabs that live on the rocks, hiding below the waterlevel once you aproach them.
    locals invented something called "grab eye" to catch these crabs. a bamboostick split open on one side like a v, and tie a 10 inch long thin fishing line between the two ends. by pulling this stick from down below where the crab sits, you will hook the crab with the tight line behind its eyes, since its eyes located on some hooklike bones. queen and stoplight will take that bait, and sometimes even big midnight and rainbows as well.
    since people started spearfishing, the main target was always any chub. because they kind of easy to shoot, they are plentyful, and almost everywhere, and people will always buy/eat them. even in times where you have snappers, kingfish and more on the table, some older people will come and ask for their rockfish.
    their are a some divers that will swim out on the weekend, and come back with a stringer of 30-40 chub.
    for the longest while i was wondering why plenty people called one of my localdivefriend "chubby" ,
    wich is also the name of a very popular soda for children. until i was told that he use to be for years the biggest chub-supplier of the island.
    something about the big species, you can still find them in some some places in rocky areas, right at the shoreline in 10feet water. but mostly find them on offshore reefs, beetwen 20-60 feet.
    but they are not that easy to shoot. they tend to react on hunting pressure quickly. if you see 20 of them in one area, you may get 2-3, before the rest will move. come back one week after, it already get harder to just get 1-2. come back 3times a week, and you wont see them again here for a long time.
    and one strange thing again, the distance beetwen trinidad and tobago is about 20miles. in tobago you will see plenty big rainbows and midnights, from all divers in trinidad, there is only a handful who seen one in years. it seemes that those fish like cleaner waters.

  • parrotfish

    hi,
    i was wondering for the longest while, why i never see any pics from floridaside, anyone catching parrotfish.
    not only the smaller species, but the rainbow, blue, and midnightparrots. i see some nice rainbows from the spearos from puerto rico. are they protected, or dont you have them up there ?
    i cant believe nobody shoot them if they could, because they are one tasty famous fish.

  • Tobago 07/08

    since i did all the filming,i dont appear in the vid. have to be the belt of richard p. junior, and he wears a round led and a inflatable emergency float, think they call it sausage, on his belt.
    by the way, for some reason the video dont appear here anymore, !?

  • Tobago 07/08

    in tobago some locals will eat octopus, but its the foreigners (specially italians) will buy them.
    i dont really shoot them much, find them funny animals. the wreck top is at 60 ft., the bottom 100ft.
    the snapper was a mangrove. what is the funny thing about the snook ? you dont shoot/eat them ?
    we rarely see them. maybe 1 or 2 a year. and they not big. 5-10 pound.