Posts by saltysunburns

    Hey Dan, I saw those units on your website but from what I gathered they are not available for sale and the page said you wouldn't answer any questions about them, so I'm still looking for a supplier, short of having my own units machined. I'm not trying to invest in the tooling to build my own, just want to acquire a few and be done with it. Thanks, anyhow.

    I'm not trying to rehash a discussion on powerhead ethics or safety as I'm pretty sure that horse has been beaten to death many many times, I'm just looking for a source for a decent slip-on ppd. I've scoured the web for awhile now and all I can find are powerheads for threaded shafts and poles like the Beco product line or bang sticks for alligators and commercial guys, or the slip-on aluminum $35 one with the rubber hose deal. What I'm looking for is a unit I can depend on when it counts and it seems like all of the recommended manufacturers are gone now. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

    Greetings, this is my obligatory new member post. a brief background on me, Miami native of 32 years spent a good portion of my life in the water as well as the Everglades backcountry. I consider myself an experienced sportsman whether fishing offshore, inshore, back country or fresh water. I've spent a few seasons hunting Big Cypress for deer and turkey but never found deer or hog hunts to be very fulfilling. As far as spearfishing goes I am only familiar with offshore reef diving but would like to work up the complacency to hunt pelagics in deep water someday. Nowadays my routine depends on ocean conditions; if it's flat calm I'll run out to the patches on a 16ft canoe with a 25hp merc for a few hours of ethical spearing, If it's too choppy to dive or run the boat I'm either at a shooting range (handloader, pistol instructor, quasi-gunsmith) or if the waves are good I'm paddling out at South Beach or further up the coast to go surfing. I used to do inshore/backcountry fishing around Flamingo for snook, sea trout, and redfish but I'm not as enthusiastic about it as I used to be.


    I have an old Nemrod Galeon II pneumatic I sometimes use but it sinks like a rock and gets tiresome to swim so lately I've been using a Rob Allen rail gun instead. I also have a little French pipe gun branded 'Nautica' that has a spear about 26" long but I think the band I have on it now is too large because the last time I used it the shaft bounced off a kingfish from about 3' away. :confused1:


    Anyway that's pretty much everything for now, I joined the site to network with other spearos and watermen and expand my knowledge on free diving and spearing tactics. Thanks for checking me out. My Instagram is saltysunburns.