Posts by Grouper

  • 15 year old lost to SWB

    Quote from greekdiver

    I always say the same shit. Knowing your limits is what will save you at the end of the day. You should come up without being gassed. If you have to concentrate on your breathing when you surface, you stayed down way too long.


    If I had children, I wouldn't let them dive without my supervision. Kids think they are indestructible and it won't happen to them. They don't understand the dangers of the ocean. They do not fear the ocean. Fear is good and what keeps you alive.


    Depth is all relative to what you are capable of doing.


    Agreed. As kids we would drop off our canoe holding cinder blocks to the bottom of the lake. Obviously, we really had no idea what the consequences could have been but thankfully made it. Don't know specifics about this 15 year old and why he wasn't being supervised but I have a feeling it could have to do with overconfidence on his part as well as the father. Overconfidence, I think, can affect experienced divers just like the ones beginning to develop their diving abilities. That complacency that sometimes results from experience leads to the accidents like the ones we see almost every month in our community. It's not easy (probably impossible) to take every precaution each time one goes out, but it's absolutely necessary to try to minimize the enormous risk that comes with freedive spearfishing.


    Brad

  • Stating wind and current direction

    Quote from hank

    Well, this thread has taught me to ask, "you mean north to south? Or south to north"? Because you can't count on the fact that the guy telling you knows the proper way to say it. Unless it's your regular dive buddy….


    very true maybe that's why i'm always confused :crazy:

  • First Mahi

    Quote from virgili

    I guess you mean male dorado?
    "cow" sometimes used for yf tuna!



    tasty if filleted++


    Yea cow = female dorado/dolphin/mahi and bull = male dorado/dophin/mahi. Not any sport in shooting those tripletail as they swim right up to you and follow you around, but they sure are delicious

  • No show year for wsb?

    Quote from Don Paul

    Both can be had on polespear with sliptip if your a good stalker, I have done yellows, but in the bed at spring I always use a gun.
    There is no shortage of WSB when the water isn't as warm a s a Jacuzzi. They just go way North.
    Cheers, Don


    Ah you see I consider jacuzzi water to be my prime habitat, anything less I feel like I'm about to get frostbite :cold:

  • No show year for wsb?

    Hahaha Don. Sucks to hear about the WSB I wonder what's going on over there. I hear all sorts of stories about them though hopefully will be able to make it over there to shoot them and yellowtail on pole at some point

  • Yellow from Alabama

    Welcome. I'm new here on the forum too but from what I've seen so far I think you'll find everyone more than happy to help with whatever you need. As far as advancing your freediving, take a class if you can afford it. If not, save up until you can. It'll make you a much better diver but more importantly a safer one. You're training with a buddy in those lakes right?


    Brad

  • 15 year old lost to SWB

    Quote from hank

    I saw this on George's Facebook page. I looked on some other spearfishing sites but didn't find anything. There was a spearo attacked by a tiger shark on the Big Isle Hawaii. Hope he survives.


    I think I saw that on video. It looked like he had a big chunk taken out of his upper leg. He was filming himself getting loaded into the rescue

  • Sharpening pencil tip to tri-cut

    Quote from matt hudson

    Saw on Instagram that gatku is making tri cut tips now, I'd contact them. Glad to see another pole spearo on the board!


    Yea man us pole slingers have to stick together :thumbsup2: But I sent Ryan a message on Instagram asking what he thought about it, before I saw that they already posted about the new tips recently soooo oh well we'll see if he responds.

  • Sharpening pencil tip to tri-cut

    Appreciate all the info guys! I think I'll try the hand file technique Marco talked about since it's simpler AND my toolbox isn't quite up to par for making precise cuts I don't think. Linghunt your picture definitely helped after i tried to bring back my geometry skills with the perfect triangles lol :crazy:

  • Sharpening pencil tip to tri-cut

    So after bouncing a couple shots off some fish with my gatku slip tip I'm thinking about sharpening down the pencil tip into a trip-cut for better penetration. What do you guys think about the differences and is it a good idea? How would you go about doing it? I really don't want to **** up a 60 dollar tip so I'm hesitant to do it anyways..especially before a trip to the Marquesas I have planned for the bday :D maybe I'll figure out a way to sharpen the tip as it is now.

  • Hogfish in South atlantic federal waters closed

    Yea I don't get that either...read somewhere that rec takes more hogs though but I'm not sure about that. I can only speak from what I've seen but I think the hogs nearshore in south Florida need a break more than anything. Almost every shore dive I do here I usually only see fish just at 12" or less :( it's even worse in the keys