Posts by hank

  • WSB suck

    Well, if it'll make you guys feel any better, Jake and I got a shitload of fish on Saturday. <img src= " height="23" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x">


    My first time in the water in 6 weeks. Lot of eagle rays and we were hoping for cobia. Only dog snapper, one cuda and a nice yellow jack.

  • Hiding from fish

    So if the fish is moving off to 1:30 and you're on his left, or about his 7:30, do you toss the spoon out to his right side so he looks away from you?

  • Hiding from fish

    Nice old thread. I missed this one.
    Yeah Judah, how do you bend the spoon? That sounds like a good idea....and cheap. Take ten spoons out on the boat and lose them all. My wife might get mad but it won't be expensive. hah


    I think once you have pretty good technique for diving and "aspettoing and aguattoing" that the most important factor for getting close is based on how "educated" the fish are. If they've been around divers...hunters recently, they're spooky. It seems that getting deeper helps for another fish or two but then it's time to move on to another spot.


    I like camo....but can't say for sure that it helps. Jake uses all black now and he's killing it.

  • Best Band Combos?

    Tubing Rubber Specification Sheet


    Is this a major supplier in the US of band material? It's cheap if I buy in bulk. Like 200 feet. I guess I'll have to go into the band manufacturing business here.
    They have varying inside diameter for the same size material.


    I also agree with the comments that less is better. I'll take the smooth shooting of 9/16 bands over the ability to make a "hale Mary" shot with 5/8s. I've knocked down 40 plus lb cuberas with two 9/16 bands and a 9/32 shaft. (7mm?)

  • Frickin' Jake.. spearfishing Belize

    Quote from LunkerBuster

    Love your reports guys.


    Hank. After a few trips how does the boat feel without the water


    Lighter <img src= " height="23" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x">
    It's not that much different. Usually we're loaded with 4 or 5 divers, gear, ice, DuQuesnay's coconuts, extra gas etc so 3-400 lbs or water isn't that big a deal. I was more worried about the trapped water causing the glass to delaminate.

  • The Adventures of Thumper

    Quote from Don Paul


    Yesterday I drove to Julian to pick up my newest crew mate, Kauai, a 3 month old Bengal hybrid. She will be in charge of fish processing this summer.


    Cheers, Don


    I had a gray tabby colored cat with brown mixed in like that in the Philippines. We named her Gus but later changed it to the Hell Bitch. (I think I was reading Lonesome Dove at the time I got her)
    When she grew up she would see medium sized dogs in the yard and run to the door doing that "cat growl". If I let her out she would charge the dogs and you'd hear them yelping and running. I'd never seen that brown color mixed in like that and figured she must have had some wild breed in her. She had no fear....until I got a monkey. A macaque. But that's another story....

  • Frickin' Jake.. spearfishing Belize

    Finally got back out on the water. I didn't get wet though, other than the spray on the boat ride. Resting my arm is really working and the pain is going away. So with Zen like discipline and concentration, I merely guided the young ones to a massive school of dogs and cuberas....ok, it wassn't that massive....and it wasn't even that big but I'm on a roll....., and diligently gutted and iced the fish.
    Jake's going to have to fill you in on the details. But that is one fat dog that I'm holding. It was the first fish of the day and he shot it at Condos, the new spot we found 3 weeks ago. Apparently there were a couple missed cuberas in on the tale....and I heard even a large king fish got lucky and swam on down the reef.
    But I look good in my fishing guide shirt....maybe i'm in the wrong business growing shrimp....what do you think? haha.



    Look at DuQuesnay in the background. "the Old Man and his arsenal". He's 73 now and smiles like a kid at Christmas the whole day out there. Maritsa did some dives but needs to learn and get used to handling a gun. She was hitting 55 plus feet though. I'm telling you....the next Sheri Daye.....


    Mo the killer. He's 10. I can't imagine when he's 18.

  • Suspenders or not?

    Quote from tufual

    i am 6 ft and 155 lb is it hard to find suits for my size ?


    I'm about half inch short of 6 foot and weigh 175. I wear a large in most wetsuits but some are a bit baggy in the butt.


    I would guess if you buy off the shelf (not custom) that a medium would fit your shoulders and waist better but you'll look like Jethro on the Beverly Hillbillies with your ankles and lower forearms showing. The only problem with that is fire coral...at least in the Caribbean.


    But all brands fit a bit differently. I wear a medium Mako (where ever that's made), I wore an XL ScubaPro a few years back. A ML Long (I believe) Riffe one piece 1.5 mm. But it's a bit short in the trunk and "wedgies" me a bit. A large Spetton HexSkin....


    Jake swears by his Speardiver and so does my stepson Tino. They are built different but both wear a small size, Tino being longer and leaner. Jake is a bit of a freak...^^....but the Speardiver seemed to contour to them both very nicely. (3mm)


    Hope that helps. Since I can't dive....I ramble a lot....^^

  • Tendonitis cures?

    Well, it's been over three months. I wasn't seeing much improvement but I also didn't stop diving. I believe cocking the guns and doing the push up movement onto my boat kept irritating it.


    For the last three weeks I haven't gone diving. And I'm seeing improvement. The pain that would wake me up at night because my arm was in a funny position has stopped.


    Now the bad news. I think I really need to not dive for another month or so. Jake's telling me to just drive the boat. But we all know how that will turn out......"DUDE !!!.....there's a HUGE school of dogs, right under the boat...and they're not spooking and diving to the bottom "!!! SPLASH !!!!


    In I'll go and it will take another 3 months....I"m thinking of taking up knitting. Actually, I should really work on my blues riffs....good time to play guitar.


    So you guys have to post a shitload of pics. haha. Thanks for all the tips on how to make this better.

  • Wut

    Looks like the tail is a bit weak to me. Stiffer blades are needed. And after diving all that time with no mask, his eyes must look like two piss holes in a snow bank.

  • Giving away spearfishing locations

    Nice. Right up in Typhoon Alley. Do you speak Ilocano?
    I lived in Iloilo for 10 years and Boracay for a year. Coming to visit again in August.
    I"ll be diving and hunting off the southwest tip of Panay. Mabuhay.

  • Giving away spearfishing locations

    Quote from Nickmal

    Appropriate conditions for fishing are garnered by a multistep process here in my location in the Philippines. Vague as per policy of the forum I will identify my spot as the China Sea. First I look out the window to see if the local fishermen are on their bamboo rafts. If they are not I check the wind, look for white caps, and wave height. I can assess the clarity of the water from my vantage point by looking down from the dune we reside upon to see if the reef is visible and the color of the water. Then I ignore all those indicators because I want to go anyway. Finally I ask my mother-in-law and wife if I can go.


    Dugay na nagistar ka sa Pilipinas....balon mo eh. <img src= " height="23" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x">