Sweet report Chris! That's the kind of yellowtail I've been dreaming of.
Posts by spearstuff
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Nice video fuzz! I really liked the music choice.
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Went out on a solo night dive this week with a goal of grabbing a massive bug. But through out the dive I couldn't find anything even remotely close to what you would call big. Everything looked undersized, bug after bug, maybe 30-40 lobsters seen and not a single one that was worth grabbing. Finally when I saw my first larger scale lobster I decided to grab him. He was clearly bigger than the rest and I didn't want to go home skunked, so it was a win win. But as I measured his back it came out to be barely legal, which both surprised and depressed me. I mean I thought this place was supposed to be a secret spot. Why are there practically no legal bugs here and absolutely no large sized bugs? Did the scuba divers wipe this spot out or something?
Well I kept diving with more of the same undersized bugs running about and just as I was about to call it quits I shined my light over a high rocky reef from the surface. I stopped and couldn't believe what I saw! Just below me a truly massive lobster was sitting completely still in a one foot trench! Staring at the carapace I swore he was the biggest lobster I'd ever seen. I quickly looked around him and didn't see a single cave in sight. He was just there for the pickings, with no way to escape, and only 15ft down! Well what was I to do but scoop him up? Dove down, grabbed him with both hands, and swam back to the surface.
That was, by far the easiest lobster I've ever grabbed for that size. Sure he kicked his tail a bunch and my grip slipped slightly, but I quickly pressed him against my body and he wasn't going anywhere, except for my lobster bag
. Although he fought tooth and nail when I went to shove him in my bag. I tried for at least 5 minutes to get him in and just gave up. Halfway in was as far as he would go. I looked down at him and thought, "Halfway in or all the way in, you're still a bagged bug and you're coming with me!" And home he went. -
Got this puppy a few days ago
Oh and if you can't tell, I shot this pic in a different location from where I grabbed it. Just wanted to get a good picture of it in the daytime before I cooked it up. -
Tino I really like those pics! The first one with the old men and their fish makes me smile.
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I swear you make the best looking guns out there!
Welcome Phil!
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Those are a couple of my favorite photos I shot this year. Love to see what awesome pictures you shot. Doesn't matter if it's photo edited or not. Just has to be some of your favorites.
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Great story and picture. Thanks for posting that khalel.
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sorry, I guess your google is broken too <img src= " height="23" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x"> ??
it is in Nevada and Arizona at the stoppage of the Colorado river. It is a beautiful place but they have had a lot of issues with droughts and water loss in the recent years
Check the hills in the background of my picture. Notice how the top of the hill is brown and the rest of the hill is greyish white? Well that's the old water line. The water used to reach all the way to the top of the white area.
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Great report!
On a side note I have to ask, how the heck do you tell the difference between a sargo and a barred surf perch? I saw both today, but can't tell them apart and am itching to try this awesome sargo meat people talk about...
Surfperch do not get as large as sargo, so if you see one that's 2-3 lbs that's probably a sargo. Also the black vertical bar on the sargo's side is much more defined compared to the one surfperch that looks similar.
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Like for example on this page the titles don't get cut off under "Recent Photos" and "Random Images" http://www.freedivingspearfishing.com/gallery/
but over here when you're browsing the Fish Records Photo Gallery section the longer titles get cut off http://www.freedivingspearfish…y/showgallery.php?cat=506
Just wondering if there's a setting that lets you see the entire title when browsing the photo galleries.
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Here's a 19 inch finescale triggerfish I shot locally back in July 2009.
And here's a 22 inch striper shot in Lake Mead back in April of this year.
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Yeah, click on the picture
:laughing1: i know that.
I was just saying it would be nice to see the weights before clicking the pictures.
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Ah I see. Dan just added the weights to the names in the Record Photo Gallery.
But it looks like some of the weights got cut off when the fish name is too long. Wonder if there's any way to fix that.
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If it is not too much trouble, I think it would be cool to have the weight of the current record in the little info section under each winner, maybe right next to their name? if not, no worries, just a thought as I was surfing through the records
Are you talking about the ISUA records?
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I hate white seabass and hunting white seabass...
:laughing1::laughing1::grin:
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That raw meat just doesn't look very appetizing. But cooked it looks kinda like chicken.
