Posts by hank

Welcome. There's a good bunch of folks on here. Nice place to be.

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I use two hands to load from beginning to end. For a chest loading gun I use a spear with a loading/rest tab. I hip load to the tab, then raise the gun and load to the last tab on my abdomen.

That's what I have on my guns. Many will ask why I don't wear a skirt also. Hey, I'm 57.

Regarding the bands sliding in the hole. ....the 5/8 bands fit really tight on a Wong 55. I have to spit on them to get them into the holes. Reminds me of...... <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">

Welcome. I did some scuba diving off of Sabah back in 97. Beautiful over there.

You can hear the crickets in here. I don't blame you for selling them.

Welcome to Speardiver.

Welcome.

Fantastic !!

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The winner is Hookinfish. Congratz and pm me your address.

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Really nice video George. I don't recognize most of those fish. Where is that taken?

It's right in the joint where the radius meets the humerus. It doesn't hurt to pull, like cocking spearbands. It hurts to do pushups, or muscling up into the boat from the water. Or, if I just let it sit long. Then any movement produces a sharp pain....like stabbing it with a pencil.

Thanks Chuck and everyone. I've made a homemade sling to immobilize it. It's very comfortable when not moving at all.....although it's a pain in the ass.

I injured it by whipping my arm from a curled position to full extension. I forget why......but I noticed the pain when I did it.

I think what has been making it worse, or irritating it and slowing the healing is being in the water.....for hours. Then with no warm up, doing the "muscle up" movement to climb into my boat.

I'm going to rig up some type of ladder so I don't have to put that pushing strain on the elbows. ....after it heals.

I hyperextended my left elbow about 2 months ago. I've had a sharp pain where my radius joins the humerus. The pain won't go away and wakes me up when I roll over at night. If I'm in the water and moving I don't notice so much but when I sit still for a while and then move....ouch.
I fear I may have to take 2-3 months of inactivity....meaning dry time....to let this really heal. Unless anyone has a miracle cure they want to share.
I guess I can drive the boat for the boys...that'll be fun...watching them put fish on the boat...."clean those, will you Dad"? yeah....

Just saw the boat. They drained 40 gallons of water out of the stringers and a couple compartments. That's 320 lbs. Or about 5 good sized cuberas. haha.
He's going to lay the floor back on tomorrow and put a seat across in front of the console. Both my ice boxes are semi crushed from guys using them as seats. Plus it'll give it a bit more structural strength.
He says maybe by Tuesday.....but this is Belize.......

When is the drawing?

A "lifestyle" choice....hah. Kind of like being a longboarder....soul surfer. Nice one Judah.

There is no.....well, I can go in the water off our beach here but usually the vis is less than 10 feet. We have a pipeline going out to sea about 1000 feet to about 18 feet of water. The pipe attracts a lot of mangrove, or black snapper, as they're called here. We also have some busted pipe out there due to a hurricane a couple years back and 10-15 lb jewfish hide in those. Also a lot of barracuda.
But honestly the murky inshore water makes me a bit nervous. We have a river about half mile up the coast and I would bet some good size bullsharks come in to breed or whatever they do in fresh water. I see a lot of manatees here too.

All I've done is put an Ulu Sub handle on my Wong magnum after hearing about Sheri Daye getting her face busted up.
And I've put a Rob Allen reel on my Riffe C3X. I had to shave off some wood on the bottom so it would mount to a flat surface.

As far as modifying EXPENSIVE stuff......I did put a new Warmoth neck, pickups and tuners on a real Fender Stratocaster. Brand new guitar....maybe 3 months old. I guess I'll get brave enough to start tearing into some spearguns before long. <img src= " height="23" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x">

In the operating room. There was a lot less water than we thought. And it wasn't so much in the foam. More in the stringers. But still, it was slowly building up so it's good to cut the drains in all the compartments to let it drain back to the bilge.
And naturally the weather is all time when I don't have a boat. Look at the glassy, beautiful morning. And it's full moon. The snappers can rest easy for a week or so.

Look at the guys working with the fiberglass. No masks. Barefoot, short sleeves. I told the one guy....a young guy he should wear a mask. His dad owns the shop. He just smiled and turned on his grinder.

Go diving with guys on a boat. As soon as you get a fish, throw it on the boat. That's what we do here.
I don't carry them on a stringer.
I have been in the water with gray reef sharks in the Philippines. We were spearing fish. Yes, they have attitude for their size but it wouldn't stop me from diving where you're going. Don't dwell on them.

You will see them in conditions where the current is coming in at 90 degrees to a wall. In the Philippines this is what we try to time when diving spots. This is when the dogtooth tuna come, giant trevally, and....gray reefs. We used to scuba dive a spot to take tourists to see gray reefs during these conditions. Only once did a guy have a shark get a little too aggressive but he was trying to get real close to photo it. The gray reef is territorial.

It will be interesting to see how much fish are there. With the Japanese in the area I would bet that it's heavily fished. There are very few places that aren't. Also, that is a bombing practice area for the US military. You may have a lot of ciguatera there due to reef damage. The dinoflagellate that produces the toxin is like the lichens that first grow on a new lava flow. This is why those islands with US airstrips had lots of Ciguatera after WW2. The US dynamited reef to get material for building the airstrips.

In the third picture from the top, at the upper right. Look at that channel between the two lengths of reef. Whoooaaaaa. Looks like an active spot.

Please take a lot of pictures. That's on my way to the Philippines.