Posts by hank

  • Hood or no hood?

    Congratulations Don. There is nothing better than an understanding wife for this thing we love .......uhhhh.....does she clean fish too? <img src= " height="23" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x">

  • A good bad day

    THe problem with this one was I was really close when I shot and the shaft passed all the way through. He was free swimming with just the shooting line in his body.
    Having the shaft stuck in the body is a big plus for slowing them down, directing their swim and grabbing onto to get a hand in the gills.
    Live and learn. I think I was getting too cocky....'Ahhhhh, it'll never happen to me...." riiiiiiggghhht. haha.

  • Fish out of Water

    Pretty cool. Laird Hamilton connected the two sports with big wave tow in using a small board when he saw that snow boards were small but ripped down the big mountains.

  • Hood or no hood?


    I hear you on the sun issue. I'm as fair skinned as they come. Mother was Scottish with freckles head to toe, brother and sister with red hair. I try to cover as much of my body as I can and I still come home fried on my face....even though I gob on the sunblock before I go out.

  • A good bad day

    Thanks gentlemen. It'll heal fast.
    I'm still trying to figure it out though. I've shot quite a few barracuda....????....40 or 50?
    I've seen them swim around afterwards in a confused state where they would lurch forward in their death throes. Nothing intentional.
    It was hit well, indicated, aside from the blood pouring out, by the fact that he cut my shooting line just as Jake was pulling it into the boat and Jake found it laying dead on the bottom, under the boat next to my shaft.
    But, I swear, he would swim off, turn and look right at me.....and charge. Three times I had to move. Once he went straight up and out of the water.
    Jake said one made a lunge at him two weeks ago, just missing his neck.

  • A good bad day

    Another one of those days.
    Started out good. We found a nice school of dogs down south where we hadn't been for a while. I watched Jake drop down to a sandy spot about 75 feet deep. He was laying on the bottom and tossed up a handful of sand. The whole school which was about 50 feet away came streaking into him. He had his pick of the bunch and got the big one.


    He went down and got another one, then I got one.
    We went farther south but nothing to shoot so we went to another cut a bit farther north.
    Found a few fish there. Got the big hogfish. Jake and the boys saw a 40 lb or so cubera. But it wasn't too be.
    So I shot this small cero mackerel and cut it up for chum. It was getting late, the sun was dropping and there were a lot of baitfish in the water. Soon this lazy looking barracuda comes in and starts munching all the chum. So I drop down and shot it around the head and gills. It was a good shot and it was bleeding really bad. But, it would turn and face me and made three passes. Once it jumped clean out of the water. The last pass it grazed me with a tooth on my left knee. Right through my wetsuit. You couldn't have cut it cleaner with a surgeon's scalpel. About 1/4 inch deep in my knee. Man, it bled a LOT. More than a cup before I got it stopped. Asshole ....haha. Sometimes they get even I guess......I'm going down to see Doc my buddy the dentist. He says he can sew it up.


  • Maui in May

    Enjoy. I didn't get much water time on Maui...or the Big Isle (except for some nice waves in Hilo Bay) but the mountains there are really....I don't know how to describe it. Spiritual I guess is a good word. Amazing...Haleakala is a worthwhile trip.

  • Hood or no hood?

    Quote from Wishihadgills

    Nothing freaks me out more than having something brush against my skin. I feel safe in my hood looking into caves and cracks knowing I wont get lit up by fire coral. The Speardiver hood is extremely flexible and I dont find it restrictive at all.


    I dont get warm or cold in a suit. I dive my 3 mil speardiver suit year round in SFL, but last summer I picked up a set of Riffe 1.5 mil pants and they were nice to have on some of the hot days.


    I agree. I used to scuba a lot and never used a hood. But now free diving, I've gotten used to one and feel .....unprotected without it. The only part of me that's exposed is the little bit of skin on my face between the mask and hood. And I STILL got burned on my lip looking in a hole by fire coral about a month ago. hah.

  • Reefchief's oceanic adventures

    Makes sense that they taste good. Lionfish and other scorpion fishes are of the genus Scorpanidae.
    Stone fish look like a pretty close relative. But man, you need a trained eye to find one. I lived and dived the Philippines for a few years and tried to find some. Hard...even the scorpion fish look just like rocks. Stonefish are even better camouflaged.

  • Reefchief's oceanic adventures

    Costas aren't meant for me either Judah. I was working on my boat and laid them down.....forgot where until I stepped into the boat and heard a "CRUNCH..." ooops.


    Sounds like you guys had a great day. One day I'll make it up there and bum a ride out with you. Maybe next year Blue Wild.

  • I want this knife sheath

    Quote from Marco


    I think that if you need your knife to untangle and save your life, probably you won't make it to save your life. I am also of the opiniion that if you have to ditch your belt is because you have been doing something wrong (for a while).
    .


    I agree that most likely 80% of the time this is true. But that other 20%....rather than untying or untangling a fishing line on your leg or arm....a quick cut could get you free.
    That's why I wear my knife on my calf. It's hard to see because of my mask, when it's on my weight belt. So if I DO need it, I won't have to fumble around to get it.....and maybe have a greater chance of dropping it. That would suck. :@

  • Frickin' Jake.. spearfishing Belize

    Went out yesterday. Two reasons. The north that was predicted to come in today, and the big boss was here and he likes fresh fish.
    Saw quite a few blacks. I was hiding and one was coming right at me....like he wasn't scared at all. Problem was, I didn't know that until I started to ascend and then saw it on the other side of the rock I was hiding behind. Jake was frantically grouper calling me from the surface but...
    We saw two others that must have been over 40 lbs....one maybe over 50. The width of the caudal fin looked to be about a foot.
    Jake shot this dog, which both of us thought was a cubera. Really dark, brownish colors for a dog....around here anyway.
    I got the black as I was turning blue. haha. I saw it when I spooked it out to the channel but it stopped....slowly came back...too slow. hah. But I finally got a nice. shot.


    Also switched to my "Araceli" gun and used 9/16 bands. It shoots so much smoother than with the 5/8. I'm going to fine tune this setup with those bands. The power is nice but accuracy is the giveaway. So, if I really need that extra power, it's probably a low percentage hale Mary shot anyway.
    Off to San Pedro in about 10 days.