I don't know. Looks like the one on page 55 is bigger. No weight on it but that looks to be 70 lbs or more. Congrats to Pachama?
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A beautiful grouper Hank.
Are you expecting another child in early October
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It was just one of those times when a big fish was trying to hide behind a fan coral. It was only about 45 feet deep. But I'll take luck over skill any day. <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">
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About 10 ft at the most, after you passed thru the 25 ft layer of 3 ft vis. The stone shot gun was 80cm.
brrrrrrr….:@….I have dived water like that off our beach here. The thought of barracuda and bulls lurking is always there. It's hard. The fish appear and disappear like ghosts. You have to be quick on the draw to get anything. Again, fine shooting there. :toast2:
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I live in belize and dive the Caribbean at least 3-4 times a week. I started with a 95cm cressi Geronimo elite and still love that gun to this day. A couple mods need to be done to make in an effective killing machine but it will not fail you..
Yep, I've seen it with my own eyes.
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Nice shooting. Stone cold on the second one. The vis wasn't THAT terrible once you got under the surface mud though, no?
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that little zipper is inspiring
Inspiring? It's looks fricken' dangerous as hell to me…. <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">…remember as a little kid getting your johnson caught in your jeans zipper? whooaaaa…..
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Excellent presentation. I'll be there in a few days….in my dreams.
Looks like some very good surf too. A waterman's Heaven.
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Thanks Dan. Looks like just what the doctor ordered. And those should slide in a lot easier into the small diameter holes. Nice.
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I have probably only made about 25 sets of bands or so, But the inconsistency for me is the wishbone length.
I make a double half hitch?…wrap it one more time (Riffe knot) and then tie the knot on the other end before cutting it. Then I grab the knots with two sets of needle nose pliers and pull them as tight as I can. For whatever reason, I rarely make two wishbones exactly the same length. -
As he said. Then, you will cut and re-tie the bands where they wear. I do it until they break in the middle…
How does a cheap bastard like you get so much fish ???
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I minus wishbone length, and the inch and a half or so that wraps through the muzzle and the half inch or so on each band where the wishbone knot is.
But I'm not so exact on that last one OR the wishbone length. So there is always a slight variation in any new set of bands I make. I feel the difference when I change in band length by a couple inches.
I like the "softer" feel of slightly longer bands.
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Nice. I lived there for a year and a half in 2000 - 2001. Used to go by boat every day up to Bacolar Chico Marine Reserve. Didn't spearfish when I was there. More into scuba then. The guy you visited is from here? Maybe I know him. Belize is a small town. <img src= " height="23" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x">
I'm moving down to Sittee River in a few weeks. Look for the thread on here, "Fricken Jake, spearfishing Belize". You can see some of the fish we get. -
Welcome. Pretty amazing living in Wyoming and being into spearfishing.
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And welcome ! There are rigtigt good people here on forummet and loads af widely .
Overvejelser that share nogle Norway Bill Eder , I think , the other members here will BLIVE surprised at how much life there is up there
Google translator….almost gets it.
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Hey quick question for you, I'd love to plan a trip to your neck of the woods but don't really have any local knowledge. That said I hear I should head for the big island, Kona beach for spearfishing - would you agree?My son Jake lives in Kona. He's on here (jake). Try contact him. He's only been there for three months but he's been out a few times. He's on Facebook too Jake Bauman. Look for a guy with a big snapper in the water.
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What an intro. NICE FISH !!
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Hank man!
When I landed on the first page of this mammoth thread for the first time this morning, I was like: "shit, 45 pages of old stuff from an old dude in some far away place...:@"
Then I gave the first few posts a quick glance and then, I was hooked.I just, literally, read through all 45 pages. What a thrill! What a privilege and man, did I wish I would have been there just for a 1/10th of it.
Beautiful fish, great diving and you are doing it all with friends and family. Such an inspiration.
Thanks SO, SO much.
Thank you for the kind words. And you're very welcome.
I think I developed this pleasure of reliving the dives and hunt from when I was young. My Dad and I would hunt Bobwhite quail together and that night, sitting by the fire having a few beers, we'd relive the day talking about the dog's point on a big covey or how they hunted a downed bird for 15 minutes and found it etc. . It was a big part of the enjoyment.
And this site has a great bunch of people.
