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I saw a bunch of yaks together and decided to do a drive by. You guys should of hit the artificial structure about 100 yd east of where you where. Very impressive, pretty and tons of grunts and goatfish.

Its like 2.5-3 hours, depends if you are trailering a boat or not.

We were supposed to have a family vacation in Marathon this weekend but everyone bailed due to weather and it was just my dad, Misael, and Me. We took a jonboat down to do some fishing under the 7mile bridge and our diving gear of course just in case the currents under the bridge let up.

The day started out beautiful so me and my uncle decided to motor out to the reef no gps or fish finder. Vis was about 70ft and you could spot fish from the boat. After a bunch of hit and miss spots and finding no structure I decided to drag ourselves accross the reef to cover ground. We were met by some massive muttons and nice blacks. Our technique was to get dragged up and down the reef until we spot a black or mutton, shoot it, and anchor for a while to see if anything else turns up. We ended the day around 2pm since we had to head back home.

Tally 4 muttons 12lbs 29inches the biggest and 3 blacks 18lb 33inches the biggest.

And the b-poses

Had a rather unexpected short day out of Marathon

From an engineering standpoint that is the best combination to insure failure. A hole by itself weakens the local area by a factor of atleast three and combine with the bend it has a similar additive effect.

What makes the blade strong is the carbon fiber. The epoxy just keeps it all together. Since all the fibers are broken in that critical section the epoxy will do very little.

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What are the two fish at the left of the pic?

Thanks Dan, we were going for the Don Bailey, also known as el "el viejo encueruso".
Those are AJ's the first one being 20+ pounds stoned by Harry with his 100cm pneumatic with 15mm rope shooting line.

Harry, Jim, I and some other divers hit Key West for 3 days of spearfishing on may 7, 2009. We also had Ben (ny _er) join us on the last day. It was mainly an exploratory dive scouting for spots to hit on subsequent trips. All of us had bad luck with our guns. Harry had 2 pneumatics go on him, I had shooting lines break on both guns, and Jim lost a shaft after it penetrated a rock and we couldn't pull it out.

We tried all depths from Key West out to the beginning of Marquesas along the main reef line.

Main thing I noticed was there is ALOT of cudas and sharks. Each spot had at least one and whenever you shoot a fish they came in like it was a dinnner bell. I lost 2 nice yellow jacks to them.

We had little luck in the deeper ranges, although nice muttons were taken deep the fish per hour, (fph), wasn't worth spending time there. There was lack of structure deep, it was just a dropoff with no fish atracting features. The shallow water was a huge difference. There a huge isolated mounds with up to more than a 10' relief with caves lining the bottom.

We caugt mainly jacks and we found a super promising spot with a bunch of permit, schools of jacks, and big snapper.

Top fish of the trip, Jim with a monster yellowtail.

Some of the fish

The Jacks

The Reefers

and the b-pose

Late report but I figure people like seeing dead fish...

Maybe Florida aswell. I have passed by places in the everglades where there are many goats roaming around and someone puts feeders right by the bank.

Most of those tests can be done in our materials lab or in a computer simulation. However as fuzz said these only serve as validation. The end result can be determined way before a prototype is made.

Dolphins have viscous tears that protect eyes from saltwater.

Headed out Saturday with Kris and my uncle from Haulover headed north to tenneco to only to be approached by a cattle boat 2 minutes after we arrived. They gave us a big hassle and we decided to leave the spot since the retard captain insisted on motoring close to the divers.

We moved to dive the sand near tenneco and were swarmed by small muttons but nothing really noteworthy.

We headed to a reef in 30-35 and drifted for a while without seeing anything good. I was swimming down thew reef edge not seeing any good features so I moved to the sand to see if I could call a mutton in. Only saw a little one come in and decided to move back to the reef where I saw this guy frantically looking around for me. I thought it was a dog until I moved in and saw it was a big mutton.

I shot it from the top of the shoulder down and the shaft came out, no flopper tune, and he hauled ass down the reef.

I decided to turn back since I was far from the boat. I passed by a hollow rock where I had seen some margates and made a dive just to satisfy my curiosity, I knew there was no way in hell that big mutton was in there. I soon as the margates cleared I saw a bright red tail in the rock. I shot him with a 3/4 and 5/8 band 6 inches away. The spear went through the rock and I knew if i tried to rotate it out it could come out of the fish as well. So I put another shaft in it from the other side of the rock and a couple dives later pulled him out with both shafts.

We went down to some ledges infront of haulover but didnt see anything else.

Saw him under a rock so I shot him.... three times. 8lb 10oz gutted.
He made 8 people really full yesterday.

Cant forget the epic catch pose!

Esta bueno el clip, pero pa la proxima quitale el pendejo ese que tienes en el lente.

Muttons are really around. We were diving sand off the tenneco towers and we see more than 10 each dive. They were all small though , barely 16 inches.

Holy crap, awesome catch guys.

We went north and had that nice water all day. Didn't catch barely anything though.

Very nice fish for only an hour hunt. Goes to show dusk is a great time to hunt.

Which way you go, how was current? We are going out of Haulover tommorow to tenneco, might not do it if vis is bad.

I'd say it's a one shaft gun because it only has 1 band.

Also among further inspection I think I know how it works.
1. Load shaft in position shown in picture. LOading will be easy because the roller isn't extended.

2.Pump black lever.

This will push the black rollers to the front increasing load on bands until rollers are inside the black looking loop. This extension probably is a mechanism like a caulking gun. That is why there is a second trigger. The second trigger releases the mechanism so rollers can slide back after gun is shot to reload.

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4. Swimming behind Rolo can put one in a shitty viz situation which may lead to severe disorientation <img src= " height="23" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x">

However, it can lead to you landing a WR chub.

The point of training is to get you used to the actual situation. The training must emulate the reality as close as possible in order for it to be effective in the actual situation.

The thing to me is do training that gets your body used to holding your breath while doing some sort of physical exertion. This can be breathhold training while climbing stairs or walking ,etc...