Posts by hank

  • Hello from Dayton, OH???

    Yep, Ohio has changed a lot too since I left there in 1977.
    Deer were scarce, believe it or not, back then. We were really stoked to see one while driving out in the country drinking beer on Friday night, which is what we did for fun back then.
    By the 90s, they were like rabbits. And now there are coyotes, which I guess came in when the deer population climbed?
    I heard in the late 90s on the radio, while at my parents house in Lawrenceburg, IN that in Ohio alone that year there were over 5000 deer related car accidents.
    I would have a hard time moving back there though. Once I saw the sea, there was no turning back. Glad you like it though. I was from Harrison, a little town on I74. The last town in Ohio before you cross into Indiana heading to Indianapolis.
    I hope you're still a Charger fan. the Bengals suck. haha. I still root for them but it's a disappointment every year.

  • Tiger shrimp in the Caribbean

    The tigers are living up to their fast growth reputation,


    We have 200,000, 25 day old in our first production pond that are 2.8 grams average weight. They should double in size in the next 5 days. They went from 1 gram to 2.8 in the last 7.


    That means over 5 grams at Day 30. Our white shrimp are doing good if they reach 2 grams in 30 days.


    I'm creating a second "mega" family with more wild caught ones this year. I'll maintain the two mega families, that will get inbred. But I will only cross males of one with females of the other and vice versa for our production ponds, meaning we'll have hybrid vigor in all our production stocks.


    Work is fun. Almost as fun as spearfishing right now. ya man, :thumbup:


    Oh yeah....we had them tested for all the known shrimp viruses. There are some really bad ones and I know there is concern up in the Gulf of Mexico regarding this issue. Test in two labs. U of Arizona and my friend's company in Thailand. Clean, clean clean. Specific pathogen Free. Incredible luck that these just landed in our lap.

  • Poor man's spearfishing FAD Fish Aggregation Device

    Quote from Wishihadgills

    Would be cool to fish on these. I can imagine how abused this technique would get if it was legal here in the states.


    There is a movement to ban them worldwide. But not the type that Marco makes.....or the one I put.
    High tech fleets plant these in the open Pacific and set biomass monitors. When they show huge schools of tuna or whatever, they come in and surround them with a corral type net and bring everything on board. Tons of fish. Dolphins, sharks whatever. And they dump the bycatch, dead, a lot like the shrimp trawlers.
    At least that's what I've read.
    The one I know of here that works for a few people is like what Marco and I are talking about. A few guys troll past them. No one I know of here spear fishes off them. I just hope to get a wahoo, mahi or maybe a blackfin tuna?

  • Hello from Dayton, OH???

    Quote from Timinator

    Tell me about spearfishing in Belize? Do you have to be a "native" or?


    No you don't have to be a native. Tourists can spearfish here. Except for Buckeyes....^^


    We have a long barrier reef and three atolls here. Lot of reef fish and also blue water.
    I live about midway on the coast near the town of Dangriga. It's 16 miles out to the barrier reef. There are fish inshore here but the vis is usually only about 10-15 feet. The reef is rarely less than 60 feet vis.


    The water temp here is 77 or so in the winter and 82-84 in the summer. We do have a shitload of fire coral so you should wear a full suit of some type.

  • Poor man's spearfishing FAD Fish Aggregation Device

    Durability and theft seem to be limiting factors here.
    Other than a very expensive setup with a huge anchor set by a much bigger boat than I have, a hurricane or tropical storm will take care of pretty much any cheap model. That's why I do it cheap. <img src= " height="23" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x">


    Venezuela doesn't get hurricanes, no?

  • Frickin' Jake.. spearfishing Belize

    About the 120 foot deep sandy area.....hard to find that here.
    It's only 60 ft max inside the reef and I'm not sure how deep you need to go to get to a sandy bottom outside. Maybe .....500 plus? Or more. I heard the one at Glovers is over 1000 feet.


    But I think we're on the path of kings and hopefully wahoo. I've seen kings there. We'll take a look next week and see who's home.

  • Frickin' Jake.. spearfishing Belize

    Quote from Marco

    Nice fish! :)


    Here water got colder by 2°. We lost 2 wahoos this weekend, one mine. High midbody shot placement and I got spooled before I could do anything. I wasn't diving a "wahoo spot", but two of them came in. They are starting to show up :thumbup:


    I'll show you some pictures of my "poor boy" FAD's <img src= " height="23" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x">


    Please do post some pics Marco. I've seen one other one in Belize that was just some floating wood and junk.


    Mine is an old pallet, free, two floaters and a chlorox bottle, free, but I did spend US$60 for rope and I attached a danforth anchor ($75) to the old tractor flywheel weight. We'll see. I hope someone doesn't have the patience to pull up 350 feet of rope.


    And the attachments were free too. It's actually expensive stuff but it's been sitting around here for years so I ....borrowed it. <img src= " height="23" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x">

  • Frickin' Jake.. spearfishing Belize

    Quote from Dude george

    Big dogs Hank and Jake... Sweet!


    Thanks George. I'm really stoked about the FAD. We set it at 350 ffeet deep based on the length of rope. I put an old pallet floating with a line and another floater off that. Underneath we have this large.....almost hula skirt looking things. A woven mat type thing that's about 6 feet wide. It has long "fingers" trailing off in the current. One at about 12 feet down the line and another at about 25 feet. It looks pretty unreal. We'll see.
    The current was ripping and it held in place for the 8 hours we watched after setting it.....oh please....ph please. haha.


    That's a real active spot. While I was on scuba looking for our old FAD line I found a really nice new wall that was covered.....ok, ok....it had 5 nice sized black grouper. All I could do was look. No gun, plus respect for the law. The current was coming in perpendicular to it. That usually makes for a lot of activity. We'll see badehhhh. <img src= " height="23" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x">

  • Hunting in Belize...

    Hi Dave,


    Are you moving to Ambergris? There are a couple guys on here that live up there.
    I used to live there and know some places but you need to hook up with a boat. The reef is only about half mile out from shore there but there is a lot of boat traffic making it very dangerous to swim out.


    Start out in the shallows and go for hogfish and small snappers. Good eating and good practice.

  • Frickin' Jake.. spearfishing Belize

    Just me and Jake. The boys had homework or something.
    We dropped another FAD after losing....or someone stole it.....the first one. This one is just a pallet, some floaters and these really neat "aqua mats" designed for shrimp hatcheries but they provide a lot of habitat under water.
    Then we headed another 10 miles out. Found a school of dogs that must have had over 200 fish. But they were educated. Too smart for us. We each got one then headed back to the reef.
    found a few more dogs but as soon as Jake shot one, a barracuda came in so I shot it before it could make a grab for the snapper. Then, as usual for this spot, sharks showed up.
    This spot is only about half mile from the FAD.
    Anyway, cool day.


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  • Guam spearfishing reports

    Just copy and paste some bikini pics from a Hawaii tourist site. No one will know the difference. <img src= " height="23" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x">

  • sdeisen little fish reports

    What do you do in that current? Just drift? Are you in a boat or a kayak? I like the current as long as we have a guy to drive....that has good eye sight and some common sense....which is a crap shoot sometimes. <img src= " height="23" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x">