Posts by hank

  • Frickin' Jake.. spearfishing Belize

    Quote from Oscar

    Wow nice tasty groupers!


    Hank - hold your snapper out at arms length or se a pole to make it look bigger <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">


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    You mean like this? I NEVER do that. haha. <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">


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  • Frickin' Jake.. spearfishing Belize

    Jake hadn't been in the water for…more than 2 or….3? months. I dropped him on one of our favourite spots and in less than 20 minutes he had the smaller black and the cubera.
    I was lollygagging around chumming with a jack I'd shot and two fairly large bulls showed up so we packed up and headed north.


    So at the next spot, we jump in and Jake and I were looking at the anchor and I thought he was breathing up to go check and set it. He slowly drops down but angled more to the wall…..at about 40 feet I see him extending his gun…..I didn't see anything….and THWACK !!….he nails the bigger grouper. WHAT A PRICK !! <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">
    It was a lot of fun. Mo got a nice hog and a grouper. I got the smaller dog. I took it off the shaft and handed it to Jake on the boat. As I swam away I hear "SHIT !!". He dropped it and I see it weakly swimming down…..right at a BIG nurse shark. I lost site of the fish as I reloaded but saw it about 5 minutes later. Weak but still able to swim a bit. Had to shoot it again.
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  • O'ahu dive and spearing report

    Quote from nishthefish

    Hey Marco!
    Milkfish have a LOT of tiny bones, but their meat is so darn delicious, so I don't mind picking out the bones even after cooking them. It's a very 'fatty' fish. Here's a video of a milkfish (or "bangus", in the Philippines) being cleaned. As you can see, there are a lot of spiny bones throughout the meat.


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gj7c59FJvew


    They're here in UAE waters, but I've never run into any of them yet!
    Great reports, jaguigui! I enjoyed the video!:thumbup:


    Man, I get hungry watching that video. I ate a lot of bangus when I lived in Iloilo.


    And the best part of the fish is that black looking abdominal wall. When that's served it's the first part to get eaten if you're with Filipinos. All fat and soooooo good.

  • Boating lessons - or - how to be safe on the water

    Jake and I had one other incident about four years ago.


    Like Linghunt, we had a new guy we'd never been with on the boat. He said he had boating experience and was about 28 years old. Nice guy. We were at one of the cuts and the current was kind of ripping with an outgoing tide. ……(you can see where this is going…..?(^^)…..so we told him we would jump in way inside and drift out. The sea was calm so keeping an eye on us wasn't hard.
    After drifting out and getting near the wall, we look and there's the boat, waaaaaayyyy inside at anchor…???:@. The guy was sitting at the helm.


    We start yelling and swimming south to get out of the rip but were still drifting out. He finally saw us waving our guns in the air and came out.


    One slip up, or lack of communication, or knowing your crew and staff and their capabilities….shit can go wrong really fast.


    Jorge, Jake, DeQuesnay….we've been out together hundreds of times so we're good. But those FNGs….^^…but it IS the captain's responsibility to make sure everyone knows what to do.

  • Lesson in humility yesterday

    Quote from Treebilly3

    That sucks! I just upgraded the anchor chain on my 25' boat because of that. now running 30' of 3/8 <img src= " height="23" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x"> it sucks to pull but I don't worry about it slipping anymore.


    You're right Treebilly, I DO have 8 feet of chain on my anchor. It's an aluminium danforth type. I've used the steel ones but they get bent to shit down here. I've had this anchor for 8 years and it always set pretty well with chain.


    And yes, training the guys. Jake is the best. But he was busy yesterday tuning a weedeater for someone and couldn't come. And I hadn't been out for almost 8 weeks. Shit weather. Out of sync and practice. They say the pilots that crash airplanes are the ones that fly a few times a month. Same concept I guess….


    Thanks everyone. Great bunch of people here. :thumbup:

  • Lesson in humility yesterday

    What a day….


    DuQuesnay, Mo and I went out despite multiple thunder storms in the area. We got hit by three. But it wasn't very windy so…
    We arrived about two miles inside the reef on the back wall where the bottom goes from about 10-15 feet deep down to 40-50 on the backside of the barrier reef, or inside wall. Duquesnay wanted to try and see if there were fish because he figured on one else dived there.
    So we anchored in about 10 feet of water. As Mo was dropping the anchor in about 11 feet of water Duqusnay says, "don't let out too much line"…..and Mo complied, which we later regretted in a big way.
    And since we were only in shallow water……waaaaaayyy inside the reef….what could go wrong anyway??


    About 10 minutes after diving and looking around…with no fish, I see a big black cloud wall coming in from the north NE. The wind picked up and I just happened to look at the boat, and thought, have I swam that fast for it to be that far away? Then I noticed the boat was broadside to the wind. Thank God Mo had the boat drift over him and he thought he was in a strong current so he climbed aboard.
    I started swimming for the boat and after 20 seconds or so, looked up and wasn't any closer. I started yelling to Mo to let out all the anchor line (because he left ti short and was now in deeper water and it was off the bottom), but he couldn't understand me because the wind was now blowing 20 kts and he was about 50-60 yards away.
    After yelling many times Mo finally realised something was wrong and he let out line but it didn't hit bottom because he was drifting too fast. Finally he heard me tell him to start a motor, which I taught him to do in the last year.
    As he came back into the wind, the anchor dropped down and bit and I reached the boat….exhausted.


    It was my fault. I'm the captain and I should have let out more anchor line….then set it. NEVER trust the ocean, even when you're in shallow water and think you're safe. But if Mo hadn't climbed onboard we would have had to sleep out at Long Caye last night, about a mile from where we were, and hoped no one stole my drifting boat.


    DuQuesnay was laughing about it and asked it that was the first time I had to swim for my boat. I said, "yes….". He said it happened to him many times. :@:@. But the old fart can swim. He was on Jamaica's swim team years ago.
    I dropped my weight belt. Lucky I had another on the boat. It was overweighted so I could lay on the bottom in the shallow water.


    What a day. Then we got stuck in the mud because our canal needs dredging. Then there was a termite hatch and we had them in our face and everywhere while washing gear.


    But I did get a nice yellow fin grouper, a mutton and a dog snapper. no pictures^^ What a day….kind of embarrassing but I wanted to share it. I thought I was getting to be pretty experienced. I feel like a dumb rookie :(

  • Which wood speargun do you recommend, Beuchat, Riffe, other?

    I don't know about Beachat.


    But I have three Riffes. Two C3s, and a Standard 5. All are about 10 years old and have been passed from me to my stepsons and son and my good buddy in the Philippines who beats the crap out of his. He loves it. No problems. They seem built to last. And last time I dealt with them, customer service was very good also.
    They were pretty well cared for. Washed after every use. As far as I could tell, the only difference in these guns is the stock length. The C3 and S5 have the same trigger mech.

  • sdeisen little fish reports

    Quote from Dan

    Nice fish, nice shot placement, nice pic!


    How do you keep your hair so neat right after diving? :)


    How does he keep his hair so neat? Are you shittin' me Dan? <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"> <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"> Just kidding badehh. :thumbup::thumbup:

  • La Jolla lookin pretty epic

    saw the lady chasing a small shark….like a nurse shark. But man I thought sea lions would feast on this. Not to mention other fish. I can't imagine a school of fish like that.