Posts by hank

ladvr, if you're asking me, I didn't really notice any difference regarding my snorkel.

Nice. I may order one soon. My wife will kill me if I do it now. haha.

That definitely looks like an improvement. You're right about neck weights. At first it feels pretty confining. But after a while I don't notice it.
Do you have special leads for that or do you use shot?

There was no section in the gear forum for weights so I posted this here,
My wife is pretty handy with a needle and thread. I had an old BCD laying around so we cut out the cumber bun and sewed it back with lead inside. Cut the clips off and sewed them in.

One is 3.5 and the other 3 lbs. Very comfortable. I was going to try inner tube but Chela said "bullsheet, hard to sew". So she did this.
And the weather is supposed to suck again this weekend. Maybe I'll get her to make some more gear. <img src= " height="23" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x">

Finally tried the C90s with Omer pockets yesterday. I am usually skeptical about believing the hype when people say, "I LOVE these fins....they make such a difference"....blah blah blah.

But I have to say I saw improvement in the number of kicks it took to get down and up. Even Duquesnay, my 72 year old dive buddy who has a 25 year old hat and only changes his bands after they break tried them and said, "wow, they DO make a difference".

I have to make some adjustments in my socks though. On my other fins I use a thin pair with a wetsuit sleeve to pad the center high point of my feet. But these are much softer and don't need that. I need to pad the lip of the rear of the pocket which rubbed the skin of my Achilles tendon a bit raw. But overall, I'm really stoked. ya man. Except for ONE thing.....I didn't get shit for fish yesterday. haha. Bad vis.....yeah....bad vis.....

"Setting Steel", a guy I hooked up with on Spearboard is arriving from FL today. Hope to get him out tomorrow. I'm really stoked to hook up with spearos from other places. Always something to learn. I hope I can get him into some fish and will post some pics. ....with my new Pursuit fins. The fish are nervous. haha.

Is that cable line on the tip? Is it braided? I had one slip off my shaft that wasn't braided. Bummer about your fish. I lost a big king that way last year.

Awesome.

Now be honest.....were you aiming at the fish in front of that one to make that shot? haha (just kidding)

Those things are fast. I see them here but smaller than that. I have only tried to shoot at two and hit one....in the tail after aiming a body length in front of it.

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Surfing ruined my life for many years then I got into spearfishing lol

Care to elaborate?

Surfing can be so pure....but there is that adrenaline issue. When I would drive to the beach, thinking it was going to be decent.....and it was flat or totally blown out, well, "might as well go get drunk". The anticipated high of surfing had to be replaced by something.

I've frozen cero mackerel for a few months. To me it was good. I think a lot of it us just how picky one is about the taste of fish.

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So I just had to bottle 17 22oz beers that I brewed. There was a large trub at the bottom of broken down hop pellets. I filled a small glass with it and the wife told me if I could chug the whole thing I can go get a new go pro tomorrow. Well I threw up. Ill just upgrade to the new one next month hopefully.

Wow, your wife threw in a "no puking" clause. Hard core....

Welcome.

I didn't watch the whole video, but Marco, that's the Hawaiian "pidgin" English that the main guy is talking. He did throw in an Australian or New Zealand accent on some word at first....but he's a local boy from Hawaii....I would bet.

Nice fish.

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Ok. I need a gun to put a reel on. Anyone wants to ship one to me?

My buddy Doc has one he might let go. <img src= " height="23" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x">

And the guy filming it was laughing his ass off and didn't help him get if off his butt. haha.

Very nice fish. Congrats.

Doc and his product. It still amazes me, the energy he has at 70 years old. I was wearing a 2.5 mm hooded vest with a 3.5 full suit and I got cold about the same time he did. He had on the vest he's wearing. I feel like a wanna be little kid (but I am only 56 haha) with my Wong, reel, computer......haha. These guys are true spearos who did it with whatever they had....pink snorkel and all. Unreal.

Marco asked me to post pics of my buddy Doc's gun. Here's one of them he used yesterday. Sorry, no fish pics. We had really lousy weather (except for the first half hour when I took these pictures), rough seas and strong current in the cuts. I only got one grouper and a nice cero. Doc got his usual array of various good eating fish. Trunk, trigger, a nice hog....

Doc's a dentist and works with his hands a lot so making a gun is a lot of fun for him. He's been doing if for about 40 years and the only thing he had to buy was the trigger mech, shafts and tips.

Checking his bent shaft from the amber jack last week. He straightened it and used it all day.

Check out the shaft guide at the tip of the gun. He bent the piece of steel and screwed it down.

The trigger mech is attached to the wood with one inch PVC pipe.