Posts by Roberto Reyes

Adrian
You can take my name out of there, in most of my stories I was afraid of the shark,
If i was willing to go in the water with the Mako, was because I knew I could not
dive again with that monster swiming around, and we left.
I have no problem with most small or medium size sharks, but shooting a big one
for fear of it biting you or a friend is not an act of courage, all the contrary.

Sorry for your loss Don

Attan
I have too many shark stories.
I will give you only one.

long time ago, I was diving in the lump, louisiana,on Eddie Mays new 26 foot Glacier bay Cat, we had shot enough wahoo the day before, the pic of the fat wahoo was on that trip, we broke the wahoo record 3 times the day before,so we were trying to shoot only Yellowfin tuna, I had shot one 91 pound yellowfin tuna the day before but my friends had none so they were in this unique tuna mode.

We had a plan of two divers in the water at the same time, Eddie was in the water with kurt when we heard a sound similar to a lion roar, by the second time the lion sound was heard we notice it was Eddies breakfast being used as chum right out of his mouth.

So it was my time to join Kurt in the water, suited up, jumped in and as soon as finished loading my 6 band gun could see a few pieces of black fin tuna around me, the guys from the boat were chumming the h out of this place.

All of a sudden I see this huge shape aproaching, it was heading right at kurt, it looked like a really fat tuna, but it had something diferent besides the bus size, it had huge teeth just hanging out of its mouth.
All of a sudden am seen this white shark right in front of my friend, as am looking sideways, i could see the huuuge tail, and big eyes, things turn ugly when without me noticing anything else, the shark starts a big jump right in front of kurt.

We had a line in the water, like 300 feet long so we could dive and grab the end of the float as the current took us there, so the guys at the boat start pulling , we were thinking that the shark had cut kurt in two, but we knew the half with the head was intact as we could hear him screaming really loud, and while the guys pulled us to the back of the boat, a lot of bubles were forming all around me, so i could not see anything, i was just waiting for the shark to hity me next, as i get to the boat, the guys are screaming so i get in, i jumped faster than i can think of doing it, and when am thinking that was fast, Kurt was rushing me to get out of his way on the way in, so I knew he had his legs intact.

I second later he says, BIG LONG FIN MAKO SHARK, i remember thinking, "dude, if that is not a white shark, thats the biggest mako I will ever see in my life".

As we look at each other, the guys start to hug us and ask if we are ok, Kurt had this gun , he has built from scratch, the first hybrid i had ever seen, and he called it Cañon de Muerte.

Well, Cañon the muerte was still loaded with 5 , 3/4 bands, and in the jaws of this gorgeous, fat ,white bellied shark, and it was trailing really slowly his gun, bungie,and his float with the flag, at an easy but steady pace.
Kurt starts screaming again that he wants his gun back, so we let loose the anchor that had a float on it, and follow the flag, the shark is right at the surface, with the fins out of the water and all, just like the jaws movie, and i cant think of how we are going to get the gun back, I was dumb enough to say I would go in the water and shoot it, but cant tell you the response of the guys, because the "F" word is nothing compared to what I got from them.

We got hold of the bungie on several ocasions, until Kurt pulled right out of the mouth with a big pull, and that was it for the day.

Hope you enjoy it :crazy:

Quote from Don Paul

This is Dans's Show , I was just asking so I could Mod Cali to a standard acceptable to future members while keeping it loose and fun, I'm good ether way. One of the ways I can learn things quickly is to ask.
Cheers, Don

I agree, keep it clean and fun.

Don, that was a big shark.

Quote from LunkerBuster

Carp are non indegineous and should be erradicated if possible

Carps are a real problem, and they are soo big.

GR, awesome fish as always I love the pic of stripe marlin.

Gerald, that lobster looks insane.
Congrats on your awesome fish as always

Nice, good job.

Really nice pics, and nice catch too, good eating.

Wish we had those here, we have something xtremely similar, called flounder, but they are soo small.

Pucho
Muy lindo, suerte.

Welcome.

Quote from fuzz

Depending on your crush requirements, divinycell is the good stuff for tuna floats. H60 is a good all-around starting point.

I agree here, why do you want wood?

Divinycell is the quality core, and I have personally seen divinycell bend a bit with tuna on a deep dive.
So unless you want it for something that would not be too big or places were is not too deep, this is the stuff to use.

Dude, those fish with hawaiian sling are so much worthy, congratulations, awesome catch.

Quote from Don Paul

Very cool Fuzz, the first gun I ever had was a thumb trigger in Tahiti, I have to dig it out in a few weeks for some pics to add.
Great post mate.

Cheers, Don

Don, thats were I saw it, on terrys video, that was you also on the video right?

I love that pic.

Getting a fish that is in a cave
and requiring so many dives have
killed a lot of people, mostly in europe
and the fish being grouper.

knowing you, am sure you would
not leave that fish to die in vane.

Good eating.

RIP

Yes, he was out of the water.
Don of course was in the water,it most
have been really scary.

Loaded spearguns are a real danger, and while doing
blue water hunting, because of the mess of loading so
many bands, or just because we are jumping paddies
we tend to leave the guns loaded, and thinking the spearpoint
is the danger.

Those guns have a big recoil, and also, once the shaft hits the end of the
line it could come back and hit you.

My dear Rodolfo

Looks like you dont know Pucho,he is not a liar.

I sell gear, spearguns and everything, who told you I would not sell you?
I dont talk about you to anyone, why do you have this perception, I have always
welcome you to my house, you are so mistaken on so many things, but time past fast
my friend, we should all listen from past mistakes and learn, learning as you go by is not enough.

For decades we did not had fishing laws.

And if you think I break article 8, stop thinking and ask the guys, since you know them so well, just ask
them if I break any of those laws. The things you say on article 8, are the ones am fighting on the public hearings right now.

By the way, spearfishing right now is prohibited in Marine Reserves, and basically a big part of PR will become a Marine Reserve
in the long time, and the ones who abide by the law, wont be able to spearfish.

But I can't believe you are still even here fighting against the recreational fishermen, everyone in this list
is recreational, my charter permit is recreational, and I have all the papers for it,Tourism department aval,
insurance and everything, I am the only charter business dedicated to take spearos out, you take guys out spearfishing without permits, even charging gas is considered a charter.

Dan, we have the same laws, but I have on some ocacions tried to get away from the recreational line fishermen
to be able to spear on certain places that they were going to close, they understood, ultimately both parties were
allowed to go for only for the fish that they were not trying to protect.

I as Pucho will leave this post thread to you. This thread was intended to defend our beloved sport, and truly when spearfishing is for profit,it simply kill as much as you can, and I wish we were not seen that way.

Rodolfo, its well known around the world, that tarpon are to be protected, they are worth more alive than dead, there should not be a comercial take on them, many many people live and feed their families on tarpon.

And do you really think that is fair to the recreational fishermen (us) to go out and only be able to take 30 pounds of mahi per boat?
I was there on the meetings of the advisory cometee when the desicion was taken that only 10 fish per day in the boat, 10 in the boat for everyone to share,was going to be allowed, this desicion was taken not because a lack on the mahi mahi population, they are extremely plentiful, but we did not wanted to hamper the ability of the comercial fishermen to sell their fish.