I love poke. When my daughter picks me up at the airport in Honolulu (and that will be in about two weeks), it's straight to Foodland to buy ahi poke. I'll have to give the nenue a try here. Da locals know da kine brah….
Posts by hank
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I am in ILOCOS Sur up near Vigan about 400 miles north of Manila. Rural Area which translates into an almost private 3 mile wide beach
Wow, you're way up there in Marcos country. Looks like some nice water. Different Filipinos than the ones down where I lived. haha.
Naembag abagatmo? is good morning?
Mayong aga….good morning in Ilonggo.
Really different dialect. I can't understand Ilocanos at all.
I'll be in Manila in a cpuple weeks. Hope I can find time to dive but I'm planing a lot of family time. Maybe we can hook up one day.
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I've been to seven of the places. I can't believe they listed Torch Lake, Michigan. We used to go there when I was a little kid. It was really clear but it sucked. We didn't have wetsuits or even know about them being from corn country down south in Ohio. And it was COLD !!
Boracay, Redang, Malaysia…??….ok but they have their bad days too. They should have listed Glovers Reef instead of Ambergris Caye in Belize. Makes you wonder about the real research that went into that list. Lots of Mediterranean spots. I though the vis there was mediocre at best? But I could be wrong.
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Makoa,
The Nenue is the one fish here that I have seen many people not take because of flavor, but they are very plentiful. I'll take one this weekend and give poke a try- thanks for the recipe!
We have them here in Belize too. My son shot one by accident when the shaft went through a snapper and hit a nenue. We ate it. The meat was grey coloured but good. But still, even though we see them in schools, I never shoot them.
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Very nice gun, report and fish.
How far north on Luzon are you? I used to go to Iba, Zambales back in the 80s. And I used to get some decent surf up there too.
Nice house too.
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Imagine what he could do with some good fins. How does he not gut burst blood vessels in his eyes, not equalising at that depth?
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On the Atlantic side of the island they do come that close often but on the calm Caribbean side almost never. Was a rare treat.
Trying to get up the balls to swim with sperms next season, but something about a giant apex predator and I fooling around makes me a 'TAD' hesitant <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">I don't know badehh…..I mean, there's just some animals….lions, grizzly bears, great whites of the large size……that although it would be a rush….and maybe I'm just getting' old….(don't say a word…
)…but Moby Dick was a sperm whale…. <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"> Can I have your blue water gun if it doesn't end well? -
That's pretty rad George. Are there instances where the mother doesn't want the diver to get close….and lets the diver know it? Shit. I wouldn't swim up to a whale and her baby. Unreal Dude.
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Awesome dude….\George. <img src= " height="23" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x">
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Welcome. I've been to your beautiful island a couple times. Did some diving off the north side. Took a ferry across to Java. It's pretty unreal at that ferry dock watching the boat come in sideways because of the current. Clear water. And you look north….basically into the Pacific and south…into the Indian Ocean.
Looking forward to pics and stories.
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Very nice pictures.
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Way to go Marco. Old guys rule. haha
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I don't know if it's the arrow, or the Indian, but that's some good shootin'. Those little tuna are fast movers. Good job.
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unreal
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Beautiful. I wish I could build shit.
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It would seem that these things would be almost obsolete now. Before the internet and spearfishing websites, Facebook etc etc....it was a good way to meet up with friends, other spearos etc.
But now, you know what fish they got at Spot X on Friday, who the new girlfriend is...what they had for dinner last night..... You've seen the latest guns etc.
If I lived down the block, I'd go I guess. But flying to Miami ......nah.
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Oscar, we're just starting to sell tigers. Just started breeding on a big enough scale to stock around Oct. THen it got cold. They're doing great though. We hope to grow them big and sell to restaurants in the US and or Japan. I worked in the Philippines for 11 years and all tiger shrimp went to Japan.
I have been doing this for 36 years but I'm a corn fed Ohio boy originally. Grew up in a little fart of a town called Harrison, just west of Cincinnati. In 1977 I just took off and the adventure is still happening.
Actually, my farm and ag background is what got my foot in the door shrimp farming. I didn't know shit but I knew how to work hard. Picking corn made every job I had after seem pretty easy. -
Check this out. Just to show you boys I haven't alway been an old fart.
The one where I'm up to my tits in oysters was in the Nov 1979 issue of National Geographic. Hakipu'u Valley on Kualoa Ranch just southwest of Chinaman's Hat. It looks like I was just working but man, it took about an hour to set that up and get that photo. There were reflectors to get more light on me…I guess cameras weren't so high tech then too. I always wore gloves handling those oysters. They had new growth margins on the shell that were razor sharp. And obviously I wouldn't have worked int he full sun without a hat. But I guess they wanted my handsome face. haha.The next one is Kauai. Kilauea. 1984 or so. American Airlines in flight magazine. It was funny. I had a friend coming from Ohio to visit me and he opens the magazine on the plane and sees my picture. haha. What timing.
My sister posted these on Facebook. I was also briefly shot on the beginning of a Magnum PI episode. Harvesting a pond. yeah man. My Hollywood career never did get off the launch pad though.
Yeah man. Those were some of the best years of my life. No worries about next week or year. Just waiting for good surf….unreal.
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Practicing being a sneaky bastard will get you more fish than practicing to go deeper. <img src= " height="23" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x"> at least in my limited experience.
