If you're planning on "blue water" as in bigger pelagics, I would go even longer. Not less than 55 inch. You'll have much better vis and fish that look closer than they are. And 55 isn't too long to shoot reef fish unless the vis is less than 20 feet or so and you're shooting in holes.
Posts by hank
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Been a rough month and a half. Some other shrimp farmers here didn't want us to grow these shrimp so they had the Belize Animal Health Authority slap a quarantine on us. We weren't even allowed to stock the white shrimp from our hatchery onto our own farm !! Much less sell them to other farmers like we've done for the last 7 years. One of the farmers basically called me a liar....and said, "you're just a cowboy....doing this on your own without our approval...". I like the cowboy comment. But we followed all the rules and did it right. I dont' want to kill the shrimp industry here.
So, after again testing negative for all known shrimp viruses, not to mention we fed tiger shrimp tissue to our white shrimp with no ill effects, we haven't seen ONE dead tiger shrimp on our farm yet, and the damn things are HERE. They're now endemic to the Caribbean and will be here to .....the end of time I guess.
So basically some of the smarter senior politicians bitch slapped the lower level one that quarantined us and told the other farmers basically, "go to bed.....mommy and daddy are trying to talk here..." <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"> and the quarantine was lifted. By June we'll be a full on tiger shrimp farm. Our first test pond will be 50 grams next week, in 129 days. The white shrimp grow to only 10-12 grams in that same time frame.....I don't know guys.....let's take a vote....what shrimp do YOU think we should grow". <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"> ya man. I need a vacation. I wake at 3 am thinking of this shit every night...what we need to do...buy, design.... -
Congratulations. This is your best catch ever badehh.
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Be careful approaching someone's set like that. Right or wrong, people can get real nasty over someone messing with their rigs. This ain't Kansas....
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Welcome. You'll find a great bunch of people on here.
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ummmm I have had a few scotches
and have just recently started using reels while shooting... but if you want no fight coming up from a deep dive then should you just not set the drag tight? I set my drag full on for hard fighting fish and set the drag very very loose for deeper dives and certain soft fleshed species.hah. Nice up as they say here in Belize. I'll have one too.
If I shoot snappers or groupers below 50 feet, I like to have the drag set tight just so I can pull them a bit and keep them from holing up if I can't grab them. As I ascend, if they're still fighting or just causing a lot of resistance because they're "swirling" from a mid body shot, I'll loosen the drag and let out line as I come up. It's that focus on getting the fish up and fighting that leads to shallow water blackout...I think anyway.
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I guess you guys don't know.. tying bands is really hard!
I've had a few....duds. haha. When I got Speardiver's small inside diameter rubber I tied a few half hitches because it was hard to get the double wrap half hitch (don't know the name....Riffe Knot is what I call it) and didn't put super glue on the tip of the wishbone after the knot. The knot came undone and slipped out.Then Dan the Master advised me to ream out the hole a bit before shoving it in.... <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">....and it's worked.
But I've made bands for all my family and some friends. None have slipped. Only my own....."experiments". I'd feel like a total loser dweeb **** if I sold some to my other buddies here that slipped. And I'm a shrimp farmer....not a spearfishing supply specialist.
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Yep, it's nice there. A lot of places are very overfished and sometimes dynamited. But the beauty of the reef and walls is unsurpassed.
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The mako bands i bought, because I was in a rush to get my gun wet again, wish bone poped out of all 3 in less than 2 mins of havin them loaded.
My Speardiver gear, is still going strong
Unbelievable. How could someone sell something like that without repetitive quality assurance tests?
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Have a good one Oscar.
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Art, where in the Philippines are you? I have a good buddy who runs a dive camp down on Spothwest Panay in the West Visayas. He's got a couple guys that work there who are good spearos.
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Nice haul George,
I haven't been out in two weeks. Weather and now…..shit….they found a dead body in the water at our favourite cut. Chopped with a machete and shot in the chest 3 or 4 times.
We're hoping it was drug related since it is a "pick up" or "drop" zone on the Colombian route. Or so we hear. But shit….Now there's talk of piracy in the same area.
Why do some asshloles have to always screw up a good thing?Anyway, sorry for the rant on your thread. I gotta come your way. I need a break. Tiger shrimp are wearing me down too. <img src= " height="23" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x">
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Welcome.
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Welcome. There's a few of us "seniors" (over 50?) on here. My wife gets worried about my flopper now and then but…….
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That looks delicious. Thanks for sharing.
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If it would have any serious flaw like the Pathos Laser, I might as well be in another line of work.
<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"> Not to derail the thread....but if you did consider another line of work.....ever consider the FBI?
Every time I look at your avatar pic it's like, "Sir? Is this your snapper"?
Well, yes but I "just the facts sir....". <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"> And the glasses and all.....haha. Just kidding 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"> -
Awesome. What a way to make the day after the first missed shot too.
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We do weigh most of the fish. And Tino shot the barracuda. I think it was going away and came out his face.
You're right. The big one was 12.5 lbs gutted. But I think the one in the cooler pic is the smaller one. The big one was on the bottom.
One thing I've noticed, if you look at a dog and a cubera and they look the same size, the cubera will always be heavier.
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Welcome. I would hate the cold water there but I loved the warm beer. <img src= " height="23" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x">
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Your pictures always make me wonder what it takes for you guys to go "woah".. 25lb+ snappers?
Well….. that king in your avatar for starters…..
