Posts by hank

  • Antigua spearfishing reports

    Quote from Marco


    When they don't give you a head shot, try to get a shot between the two finlets in the back. Normally they don't rip off when shot there. ;)


    I've been doing that since you posted that on cero mackerel. It works for me. thanks Marco. uhhhh...do I owe you a trip to Belize for this? <img src= " height="23" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x">

  • Vintage 1950s Haiti Spearfishing Film

    That sounded like the 1960s Wide World of Sports commentator with Jim McKay. <img src= " height="23" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x">
    Like an episode in the doldrums between end of basketball and start of baseball season.


    Pretty wild grabbing that nurse shark with a hook.

  • Blue and silver Dorado

    If I remember right, the mahi in Hawaii seemed more blue. Those were the only ones I had ever seen while I was fishing with Terry Chung off Kauai for a few months.
    Then I'd see pics of ones from the Atlantic and they seemed more greenish and gold.

  • Poor man's spearfishing FAD Fish Aggregation Device

    I give up.
    I spent about US$300 on rope, anchor.....put in two fads over a 3 week period. Both were stolen.
    Jake and I dropped the second one last week Sunday. We came back 8 hours later and it was there in a ripping current all day so it was legit.


    Went out Sunday and it was gone. So we dove a spot near there on the reef. Then a guy comes by on a boat like mine acting kind of pissed off that we were there. He passed right by DuQuesnay in the water. Andre thinks maybe he's the one and maybe he thinks it's his place. Assholes. One wahoo is worth more than the materials in the fads.


    Anyway.....GEORGE !! Can I come to Antigua and shoot a wahoo? :thumbup:

  • Miami spearfishing reports

    Does Dan have teeth? How come he never smiles. Even with a nice fish. <img src= " height="23" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x">

  • What I have learned

    It is a strange love affair.


    I used to lie in my bed when I lived on Kauai and was really getting into surfing. The surf report called for 6-8 (Hawaiian) and I'd wake up at 3 am and could hear the waves crashing down the valley from where I lived in Kilauea. Waiting for sunrise, wondering if I was going to take off on the biggest wave of my life that day....and what would happen.


    It's the same spearfishing....and I'm 58 !! We're planning on going to the atholl. 25 miles one way. We know there are going to be BIG snappers....60 lbs and more.....and I lay there at 3 am, wondering if the weather will hold....thinking of dropping to 60....70 feet....and knowing that seeing a big cubera will make me stay a bit longer....and what could happen then.


    It is strange. Is it a love? An addiction? Every trip I pray that God will get me home safe to my little boy.


    We are a strange breed. What else could make us go back again....as you said Don, having lost friends, which thank God hasn't happened to me yet. A true band of brothers....crazy brothers. :)

  • Tiger shrimp in the Caribbean

    Here's a few more pics. One is a bunch of tiger post larvae about 35 days old. They should have been moved out to a pond about 10 days ago but we didn't have any empty.
    the other pics are the larval rearing room and algae lab and mass culture. We have to isolate and keep a pure culture of diatoms to feed them the first 3 days of life. Without it, they all die. We have the same algae running here for over 7 years.


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  • Hello from Dayton, OH???

    There is a lot of property here. The population is only 300,000.
    Beach front, jungle type, mountain, you name it. All price ranges too. The beach front is expensive. Like....almost Hawaii expensive.

  • Tiger shrimp in the Caribbean

    Quote from sdeisen

    Awesome farm, looks just like the place my buddy works that grows out cobia.
    Cool to see, thanks


    My dive buddy here before ran a cobia farm here. They had a hatchery that looks like this. Pretty much the same for all of them. Tanks, pipes, blowers, airlines....yep.


    They grew them out in cages in the sea.

  • Tiger shrimp in the Caribbean

    Well here you go Marco,
    We have four buildings full of these tanks where we grow and mate the shrimp. We keep them inside, straight from the hatchery for biosecurity. It takes about 8 months for the white shrimp to reach maturity and about a year for the monodon. (tiger shrmp)
    We have another two buildings for growing the larvae. 270 cubic meters of water each in 14 and 10 ton tanks. (one cubic meter is about 250 gallons)


    Lots of pumps and air blowers. It's pretty cool, the whole process of pumping, filtering, growing the larval feeds....after 36 years I still get a big kick out of it. We chlorinate and filter down to 1 micron all incoming sea water to keep out contaminates and even larval predators. We have to grow our own algae to feed the young larvae also. Operating room cleanliness.
    We produce about 600 million baby shrimp per year here but with the tigers the number will go down because you need less since they grow so big.
    Next year at this time we hope to be stocking only tigers on this farm. The price for large monodon tails is US$12.50 per lb right now. The smaller white shrimp is about $4.50 Needless to say, the owner of this farm is stoked.
    I'll get more pics tomorrow from the larval room. We have some nice sized post larvae tigers there.
    The pics of the shrimp here aren't good. Hard to get a shot of them under the water with my iPhone. They're about 4-7 grams in size. Growing really fast in our tanks.
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