Posts by hank

  • A tribute to spearfishing wives & girlfriends

    My wife has a real love/hate relationship with my diving.


    She likes going out on the boat. She likes eating fish and giving to her friends. She makes a little money too.


    But she has this fear about it too. Her first husband was a land hunter. A real Daniel Boone badass. He would go off for a week at a time in the mountains here and bring out meat to sell. Then, when Chela's youngest son at the time was one month old, her husband didn't come home. Never seen again.


    So she was real worried when we were going to dive what some call Shark's Hole….some call it Black Hole, and told me to be sure not to go inside. I could see the fear in her eyes. She tells me in her very accented Eeenglish, "I theenk I get bad luck choosing husband. Modesto, he go honting in the mountains, and he no come home. Maybe you go honting in the sea and one day you no come home".


    Then, she says I'm "getting 'fraid because I'm getting old. Spanish women.:S :thumbup:


    I wish I had a video….when she was 8 months pregnant with Willy she cleaned…by herself…..a 140 lb Goliath. And didn't waste a gram of meat. Now she's 7 months pregnant…..and wants to eat fish.


    Yep. I got a good one.

  • Breakaway or flopper tips?

    Quote from Timinator

    For me; for small fish I use a gun with a flopper but anything more than 10lbs I use slip tips. Just too many bent shafts.


    The logic and plan are good. But it seldom works out that way. <img src= " height="23" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x"> Guranteed the day you bring your flopper you'll have a 50 lb cubera come right up in your face. And the day you bring your slip tip, you only see school masters. <img src= " class="smiley" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x" height="23" width="23" loading="eager" data-tooltip="biggrin" aria-label="biggrin">

  • Farewell Robin Williams

    Jake and Kiera were small when Aladdin came out. I must have watched that 100 times on VCR. I remember seeing him doing his first stand up acts in the early 80s. Incredible.
    Rest in Peace Mr Williams.

  • Breakaway or flopper tips?

    Quote from ladvr

    The one thing I like about a flopper shaft on a big fish is the fish is more subdued with a thick shaft stuck in it. More so then with a slip tiip cable.


    Especially barracuda or other "toothy" fish. You can use the imbedded shaft to pin the fish down and get hold of its gills. I had a cubera bust me right in the mouth once when the shaft passed through and it could move around more freely. I swam up to the boat and my wife was laughing at the blood I was spitting out. Crazy Spanish women. <img src= " height="23" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x">

  • Spearfishing Trindad & Tobago 2014

    I think Marco has a point too though and it has to do with the quality of your flopper. A hard stainless steel wouldn't bend back so easily. Dan's are good. I've had some others that are much softer and bend back more easily.


    Nice black George. haha You posted right as I did.

  • Spearfishing Trindad & Tobago 2014

    Best if you take a vice grip on the boat. I tune mine but one larger snapper or grouper will detune it, or loosen the pinch at the pin, where it doesn't stick open anymore.
    I've had a tuned flopper get detuned in the process of trying to land a big cobia. Bu the time I got hold of the spear shaft the cobia went straight up and out of the water. The flopper fell down closed, the shaft dropped with the flopper on top of the shaft and the fish slipped right off. I cried for 10 minutes.

  • White seabass stone shot.

    Nice. I hit two horse eye jacks once with one shot. Big ones too. Both were about 15 lbs plus. Then the farthest one near the tip tore off. The double was unintentional though. After I shot I was like, "shit….two of them"…^^

  • Frickin' Jake.. spearfishing Belize

    Oscar, that was a bad…..or lucky shot? ^^. The fish turned right as I shot and the shaft went in and out the same side, tearing the skin as it tried to get off the shaft. I got down and bear hugged the fish.