Posts by hank

Very nice Marco.

Quote from Hookinfish

Nice! I will be chasing some fish and maybe axis deer in Hawaii (Molokai and Hawaii) end of this year. If your on the Big Island we should go for a dive.

Man, I wish I could be here longer. Sorry I can't make it this trip. Have fun.

Quote from LunkerBuster

Does Daryl allow people to dive with other guns hahahaha nice quiver and nice fish

All those guns except one are Daryl's. The lady in the pic had a brand new one there. And that was only half the ones on the boat. The blue water guns were down in the hold.

We looked for wahoo at three spots but had no luck. It's been a slow year there so far.

Dan, it wasn't that rough on that side. Just a bit choppy. But as we headed back to town side a southeast wind picked up and were bouncing waves off the cliffs from Makapu'u to Coco Head. We drifted along that side for ono but...nothing. The good news is my buddy in Belize is catching them on hook and line so when I get back.....we'll see.

Fricken Jake isn't here in Hawaii....he's minding the shrimp hatchery...bummer. Went out all day yesterday and covered a lot of ground.
Diver Joe, head of the UWA, or Ulua Wrestling Federation and Daryl's regular dive buddy shot this 68 lb ulua in a "house".
A long wrestling match followed with me and Joe stabbing the beast in the head to subdue it.
We hit about 7 different spots and found some fish. Nice uhu (parrot fish) and Hawaiian hogfish.

Nice fish and story. Thanks.

And this is because the compressed air in your lungs increases the PP 02, which FEELs like you have more air.
Jake always tells me he feels the need to breath as he's going down at about 65 feet. But when he reachs 85, it goes away. Which is what tricks us and makes us more prone to black out.

Which is why we ALL should take a PFI or FII course. haha. HI DAN !!

Later my brothers.

sdiesen, I don't know if you own a Wong or not, but if you know Daryl, he's the Ulua King. He's got a lot of spots off Kaneohe Bay where he knows are the "houses", where the uluas hang out during the day. Some BIG ones. It's pretty awesome to watch him disappear into those holes...60-70 feet down. Overhead environment free diving? Whoooaaaa. Pretty intense especially when he's going back down to untangle one.

Judah, thanks buddy. This fish was actually in only about 8 feet of water. There was a bit of surge, which makes it hard on your wetsuit banging against the rocks. The snappers were moving around in the low vis trying to keep away from us. Jake and I were just laying down.....and waiting......and waiting. haha. You could see the groups of bigger ones in the distance ....like ghosts. It was just a waiting game and .....I believe anyway, but still learning about this elusive fish.....never show any aggressive move towards them. Not even a hard look.

Quote from sdeisen

Hank what kind of fish are you holding? and when you going to be on Oahu,, ill be there in february near kailoa

I'm holding a dog snapper. or Lutjanus jocu.
I'll be on Oahu in about 48 hours and returning here on Dec 11.
Have fun. I hope to get out and try for wahoo.

Nice day playing in the shallows, but with some smart ass snappers. Jake, Mo, Tino, Dukes and me went to this shallow cut where the dogs come home to roost in late afternoon.
We got there early just to see what was happening because we've only gone there late before.
There were lots of snappers....muttons, dogs, silk, schoolmasters....small but not bad, and some black and white margates.
I saw maybe the biggest dog ever but couldn't get close. I was just drifting around in water from 4 to 20 feet deep. Not so good vis as the water was coming out of a very shallow spot inside the reef. Cold too.
I passed on a lot of smaller fish but finally got the one nice dog. Jake got another one and the black and the yellow jack.
It was really good practice. Laying and waiting for 1 min 30 or more....the smart little bastards wouuld come in....and turn....come back.....and turn......on and on like this. Good fun. haha.

The other pic is the three boats under my house....which is becoming "Jake and Hank's Boat Service". The bubble blower friends or ours bought a skiff and twin 40s. We're putting it all together for them.

I'm outa here tomorrow. Honolulu bound and down.

The fish looks great. I don't want to look at turkey for a while. Pigged out big time yesterday. Turkey and rice...and the gravy I made. My wife doesn't do the American T Day feast thing. No cranberry sauce, green beans and mushroom sauce, pumpkin pie....
I could go for some mack though. Nice.

Welcome. Looking forward to pictures and stories.

That''s some really good shooting in that vis. You had about 1.5 seconds to look and make the shot?

Strong current. Had some bubble blower friends out who want to start free diving. I was going to tell them to take a course..........the lady already ordered a Wong GR 55 rear handle plus. I'm bringing it back from Hawaii in a few weeks.
Anyway, as mentioned, the current was ripping so I was dropping everyone off outside and herding them in through the cut. Jake got the nassau near "the house" and said there were blacks hanging around.
Dropped them again and Mo pops up and says, "Jake shot a big cobia".
First thing I said was, "shoot it again"!!! This was the same place I lost that big one earlier this year.
But Jake had already bear hugged the fish so no one could shoot it haha. He brought it to the boat and took a turn driving so "the old man" could have a turn in the water.
I did a few drifts in and didn't see much. I had Jake drop me way outside as the tide had slacked a bit. I drifted around on the dropoff and found the big school of dogs.
Beautiful big silver mass hanging only about 20-30 feet down, I dropped down and laid on the bottom at 60 feet and waited. Sure enough they came right to me. I had to pick one out of the mass. Got one and took it to the boat. I told Jake to anchor and dropped down again. Same thing....it was like they knew me and were coming to greet me.
But I was really careful to not make any move towards them at all. Even when I shot, I pulled back, looked away and swam up and away from them. We got three but then having 4 people in the water seemed to spook them. The would come but just out of range. Then they went deep. Nice day but it's getting cold....time to bust out the 3 mm open cell.

Nice.
When we see spades here they're usually up in the water column and most times accompanied by a nearby school of dog snappers, or jacks or other desirable fish. Good indicator fish but I've never eaten one....yet.

Quote from LunkerBuster

Those neptonics ones look pretty cool. I feel like anything you move drawn bands across will shorten the life of your bands

The stress of laying over a band riser would be a lot less than where they do a 180 degree turn in the holes on the muzzle.....which makes a split band seem more logical..?

Great video.
I've seen them a few times. One big one but it just swam past me. Really fat.
Another time on the same day.....not sure if it was the same one about a mile apart on the reef.....but one came right up to my face...slowly. And one did the exact same thing to the Spaniard. Looked like the same shark. Not aggressive but it came within 8 feet of us...which felt like 2 feet at the time. Beautiful animals.

I wonder what the % kill rate was.
I try and poke lionfish with my spear and it's hard. They don't look fast but they move out of the way. And if you hit them, it doesn't always penetrate.
Rubber bands were a major breakthrough in technology.

Quote from Dude george

Insane Jake but be careful with your sinuses at those depths as you are in scuba science now not free.... You can really F... yourself up and diving would be over forever, my advice is dont do depths with any kind of congestion problems... Wait it out and you will be diving for a long time

Good advice. The plan was he was going to just drive the boat and we could drift. But the last spot we checked.....whoooaaaaa.....was choke with fish. Maybe 1000 horse eye jacks. Two schools and two sizes. They would follow us to the surface. Also about 200 spadefish and a big school of dog snappers mixed with some cuberas....not to mention about 15 black grouper scattered on the bottom.
"Jake....stay on the boat.....remember your sinuses....."..... <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"> <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"> yeah riiiiiggghhhtt
I should have just got back in the boat and said, "there's no fish here".....haha.

That's a great deal. That would go for about $1400 new. (I have one too)

I've tried that quite a few times. They're not as slow as they appear to be. I've made contact, but never penetrated one.