Posts by seaweed

Awesome catch, what depths do you guys get those big ones at?

I find I dive best when the vis sucks ass. I can usually manage a good depth and breathold on my first dive compared to a first dive in good vis.

I guess getting used to diving Ft. lauderdale where the vis is usually 30ft makes me feel calm.

To me it all depends on the current not the vis. If there is current avoids diving 'spots' and just drift productive drifts. If there is no current dive anything regardless of vis.

Yes, I've always called the top part the stove even though I think it means the whole thing.

One side at a time so you use less oil, of course make sure the oil is at or above half way on the fish. If you do it alot is better to do it in a fryer and reuse the oil.

Once you get to mutton sized fish they get tough but once you get the hang of it I think most fish are possible, within reason. I have my stove frying down to an art. The thicker the fish the lower heat you need to fry at. If the fish is bigger than the pot cut it into 3 pieces or so. Muttons, I heat up the oil and put it in, then lower the heat to medium or a bit below, I find you can fry it for a long time without burning it, when you think its ready turn up the heat to brown it a bit.

To me a dish that realy feels like home is fried fish until the fish is crispy brown outside. Just scale, score 3 transverse cuts, rub salt on it and fry, place fish in a plate with no napkins. Serve with rice and a side of lemon juice for dipping. Also mop up the excess fish flavored oil left in the plate with cuban bread.

Thread title should say "shitty vis"

Dan was diving on a lobster hole in about 40ft and we were taking turns diving on it to see if we could extract some huge bugs we saw in it. Vis was probably 10-15 ft, it was under a big pipe about 3 ft diameter that runs along a reef.

Dan went down and I followed him but I went to the other side of the pipe where he couldn't see me. I slid my hand in a hole and was trying to get a bug I saw. Dan was poking my hand with his tickle stick from the other side of the pipe. It occured to me he didnt see me and probably thought my hand was a lobster since he kept poking it. So I grabbed the tickle stick and shook it as hard as I could, I felt him immediatley let go and I peeked over the side of the pipe and saw him ascending with a confused look on his face.

The second he saw me smile he put it all together and we had a good laugh .

Nice day on the water with you guys, and lots of good laughs as well. It had everything you guys like; fish, laughs, screwing dolphins, feces.... the list goes on.

Dont buy a little one, I had one and threw it over, that was the last time I saw it. The force of the current on the line overcame the floats floatiness.

Saw this one on spearboard.

http://www.jugit.com/

Also spearfishing specialties sells one that I saw being used in palm beach(bigtime current) so you know it's good. You make a loop every 20 ft and rig it in advace for 40, 60, 80 ft whatever. A 3lb dive weight was used as the anchor that way it doesnt hang up on anything.

The white and pink ones are easiest to make.

Or make your own with 2 pelaj floats or big float like above, glued together and a recess cut into it to wrap the line around.

Guy was drunk, gun probably fell, kid was returning it. Obviously the guy had better things to do than to pay attention to the kid.

I hear the red ones are better than the yellow. Did you get the yellow ones or both?

See any lobster?

You going out tommorow?

What they do is remove about 1.5-2 ft of core, burn the end and pass it through the rope transversly, repeat about 4 or 5 times each time entering about an inch up. Then place the tag end in the rope like an eyesplice. Then tie a constrictor knot under the burnt end and heat shrink the knot.

Stolen from Henspearo

"What's cheaper than a freediver?"

"A boat load of freedivers."

I've read you bend first then lift one leg up and keep other down. The other leg that is under water is stressed and will in effect provide a "free kick" since it's under water straightening itself out. Combine this with the weight of the leg out of the water. So you get a thrust from the stressed leg and gravity from the leg out of water, which might be more than lifting both legs out of the water.

flfreedivers says the RA is 3/8.

Measure the width and the thickness, add the two, multiply by .6366.

More than one California fish is like that. They also have the lingcod which has blue or green meat. Lobster sometimes have pink meat but that is because they were getting ready to make eggs.

1/2 is probably too thick. With my gun the line will float the gun if the depth is over 35, so I cant leave it on the bottom to mark a spot.

Stretchy omer with plastic buckle. Mines broke in half, I thought it was the buckle that just disengaged as it sometimes does, but I grab one piece and realized the other half was missing. Good thing I grabbed the piece that had my knife and gun loader. The other half was lost.

Going to buy a weight belt tomorrow, anyone want to come?