"We need a Belize forum. We're all brothers here in Belize. Old, young, ebony, ivory, Christian, Muslim, freediver, scuba shooter, floatline, reel, bbq pictures,....we're always in pursuit...oops, did I say that word?..... of a good time.
Of course, others besides me will have to join...."
I posted this yesterday on there after being warned not to post the name Pursuit. I thought it was a light joke. Nope....gone.
So the shaft guarantee I will land fish like Hank and Marco??? I'll take twenty
Marco got me so stoked, I just ordered 6 more. <img src= " height="23" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x">
Pursuit SA 7 mm shafts are very good. I've been using them for a couple month now and show no signs of rust (which will eventually appear, but is normal). They are strong and straight. The flopper is just as it has to be and the notches are perfectly smooth.
And can kill some fat Muttons as well...
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I have some of those shafts too and I can attest to this claim. <img src= " height="23" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x">
Nice fish Marco !!
Hey Hank, excellent fish as usual.
Quick question, how do you guys get on the panga? You just go over the side?
Hi Brian,
There's only about 22 inches or so of free board. If you just kick your fins and pull, it's pretty easy to climb aboard.
DuQuesnay has a hard time but we just grab his pants, give him a major "wedgy" and pull him up on the cooler.
I was thinking of getting a ladder but with 4 divers, the deck is already pretty cluttered.
Another couple of pics. Getting ready to head out. Waiting on DuQuesnay (you can see him in the water in the grouper shot) as usual. Heart of gold.
Jake and his grouper. Doc is 70 years old. He did the PFI class with us and made it to 85 feet. Still working his butt off fixing teeth here in Dangriga. Great guy.
The water was so calm and glassy yesterday that you couldn't tell where the sky ended and the sea started. Unreal day. Lot of kingfish were passing by. A few big ones but only got a shot on a couple small ones. The big grouper was laying under the boat while we were cleaning fish. Doc came swimming in with a full stringer of smaller ones so Jake dove down to look at the fish. He saw the grouper and stoned it.
Also got a couple nice cuberas and 2 more grouper. The water was calm but dirty. We had to dive down to find the fish. 
Sorry for the lousy quality of the last two pics. My wife is worse than I am at photography.
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Very nice. The video makes me feel like I'm right there. I have to get a camera. My wife will kill me but....
This is good. How to you post those YouTube videos?
any ways for a non marine biologist to spot the difference between a stonefish and any other scorpionfish? all accounts are that they are delicious, and if they are in the same family as the lionfish I believe it
Stone fish are (hopefully) not in the Atlantic or Caribbean....but given that lionfish escaped into our waters and proliferated, I guess it's no guarantee. 
Scorpaena plumieri
There's a few different ones of the same family in the Indo Pacific. I've seen a few here....If I'm really trying to find them. Hard to spot. Toxic spines but not deadly like the Stonefish. 
It'd be a hard shot to duplicate.
Check out the shooting line. In the tail, out the side, back in the side and out the eye. Just as I was shooting, he turned away and got skewered.
Not a lot of fish yesterday. Yesterday was Independence Day in Belize.
Then I want to the Dangriga fish market today and saw a LOT of muttons and dog snapper. A guy told me someone brought in 300 lbs.
I love this..;)
D.
I have to admit. That is a perfect breast. The "Etitomy" of breasts. Looks like it's shaping up as we move below too.
Nice fish.
It always is a striking contrast to see nice fish like that with the buildings of a large city as a back drop.
Congratulations Roberto.
Had to hunt for some clean water again yesterday. We got to one of our spots and the green water was kind of laced through the area. Some spots were pretty clean and some were pretty green. We were seeing a few snappers on the bottom here and there and Jake got a couple but had to dive to the bottom and just get lucky finding one. You couldn't see them from the surface.
After a couple hours we moved a bit south where someone had set a mooring. We saw a couple guys h and L fishing there earlier who had left. I've also found a lot of fish in that area before but from where we were, the water appeared to get even more green as we moved south.
We came up to the mooring and I jumped in and found some fairly clean, bluish water with a lot of small blue lined jacks hanging around the mooring line. Then, up from the bottom came a few cuberas, and I could see a big school of dog snapper about 20 feet down.
I dropped down to about 40 feet and a nice cubera came by. Jake was still gearing up as I put the fish in the boat....needless to say he was stoked.
I dropped down to about 50 feet and there were LOTS of cuberas. The bottom was at about 90 but they were up and moving around. A few smaller ones came by but I waited as one bigger one came in. I thought he was about 12-15 lbs when I shot but I guess I was farther away than I thought. Quite a fight as he shot for the bottom burring my fingers through the glove. Jake got another one and we went home. The big one was 30.5 lbs gutted and gilled.
The Rasta guys came back to fish some more. They had been catching small jacks and a couple permit. They were stoked to see the snappers we'd gotten. I don''t think they knew they were there. There was a nice aroma in the air
as they started dropping lines int he water. Ya man....
Very nice videos. Thank you both very much.
