Posts by mrmike

  • Things to do/places to go in Sugarloaf

    I will be staying at the KOA on sugarloaf all next week with a couple friends. Plan on doing some fishing/diving and partying. Maybe key west for a day. I picked up a map of the area for diving and hope it pans out. Is there anything in the area anyone recommends or would advise I stay away from? thanks in advance

  • just discovered speardiver.com

    Welcome! Speardiver carbon blades are worth every penny, I beat the hell out of mine and although they are scratched they show no signs of structural damage. There is a writeup and a couple pictures of Pantoja's fins on here somewhere and it looks like he beat the shit out of them and they loved every minute of it. I jumped from plastic split fins to CF fins because by upgrading to the best I avoid wasting money on mediocre fins I wouldn't be happy with or wouldn't last.

  • GPS/Fishfinder Recommendations

    I have had a standard horizon 180i for the past 2 years and it has been nothing but problems with the depth finder. It is ongoing and at this point I am just going to try to get my money back from the mfr. So far they have replaced the internals of the unit, then the unit itself, and this last time they replaced the transducer. Still have problems, doesn't matter if the boat is at idle, shut off, moving etc. At this point I'm ready to throw it overboard. I have been looking at the Garmin 541s, but am open to suggestions. What are you guys using on your boats and what do you think? That 180i gets great reviews but there are very few reviews of it. The 541s gets pretty good reviews but there are tons of them, most of the issues seem to be with the lack of buttons and idiots.

  • Broward Beach Conditions

    Steven it was the same place you got that monster hog with me on a beach dive. I'm NEVER leaving my gun behind again.


    Judah I work until 5 during the week, I am off on tuesday. call/text if you want to try to get out.



    Viz was weird today inside 20fsw we had close to 40' viz. We moved out to a deeper lobster area in 25-30 and I couldn't see the bottom... Everything I saw/got today was inside the first reef dropoff

  • Broward Beach Conditions

    Conditions were beautiful this morning I hope others got out. We got 7 lobsters and I didn't have my gun with me for 2 cudas, a red grouper, 1 mac, 1 king, 2 lionfish, and 2 hogs - one of which was the biggest I'd ever seen. The Massive hog was about 20 feet from the biggest lobster I've ever seen down here. Sadly I didn't get either of them. There were 3-5 lobster under this one ledge that goes back 10+ feet with just a few small access holes in through the top. I am now devising a way to make a 12' lobster noose just for this location. I would estimate that none of the lobsters at the back were under 2 pounds. I marked it on my GPS and will be going back there to devise a way to get them out. I have never seen so many great fish in less than 25' of water. Conditions this afternoon were much worse, afternoon winds and outgoing tide made for murky water and steep waves.

  • Car dealer fee scam

    At my dealer I love when they try to add the "shop supplies fee". The customer never gets to use our shop supplies, HELL I barely get to use our shop supplies. You'd think it would be included in the $120/hr labor rate ass raping these idiots already agree to pay. I could go on and on about the stupidity at stealerships



    P.S. since the cost of scrap has gone up over recent years a lot of places (my dealer included) charge either a core on batteries, something like $15, or the couple buck disposal fee. You can't even keep your own garbage anymore!

  • Broward Beach Conditions

    out from 730-130, viz was crap from boca to lauderdale. started in 35-40' and were quickly pushed in shallow where we found some bugs. One mac and one bonito also came home

  • First gun build underway

    Haha I liked it using thinned epoxy and wet sanding. I think I will sand it smooth and use thinned epoxy again to build it back up. The regular epoxy was just too thick and didn't flow very well.

  • First gun build underway

    Finally got this thing all wrapped up and assembled. I'm not very happy with the last coat of epoxy that went on it, I left it un-thinned and it just didn't turn out well. I will sand it down and recoat at a later date I just want to get it in the water and see how it handles. I threw it in the pool just to test its buoyancy, at 8lbs its a bruiser but it barely sinks with the shaft in and floats with it out. It should be interesting tomorrow to see it in saltwater. I will try to post pictures and hopefully some fish tomorrow.



    P.S. It's going to be a bitch to load, I can tell already

  • Floundas!

    Judah I believe its 12". I was able to catch one by putting my hand in front of him and spooking him enough that he would move on top of my hand which made it easy enough to grab him. The second one I just stabbed with my knife. They are about as skittish as lionfish...

  • Floundas!

    In my 5ish years of diving Ive seen 2. They arent common down this way but they do exist. The ones I have seen are hiding in the most blatantly obvious spots....