Posts by hau

Quote from fishingdude

they're not mullet is what I was seeing. large schools of pilchards was what I was seeing close to shore. Mullet may be deeper where hau was.

fishingdude--- that is EXACTLY what was happening yesterday.

Schools of pilchards close to shore and schools of mullet out on the second reef
Me and Scott hunted bait balls last year and had a GREAT time shooting macs as they came in and hit the bait balls
I've had this type of spearing get REALLY exciting when the tarpon were hitting the bait balls :@
Tarpon don't have the sensory systems of sharks and therefore a 100-300lb tarpon can come shooting past a spearo very fast and close as they chase the bait :@

When I look out the back door, todays seas are way rougher and greener than yesterday here in Hollywood.
I'm gonna stay in today

Alan---thats some very nice fish and nice picture.
Yesterdays seas and viz were not spearfishing 101 level. Good job

South of Port Everglades today
begin at 830am--------end at 1pm
wind from SE at 5mph--from E at 15mph
current S to N at 1.5mph--current zero
viz 15f in 20fsw------same
seas less than 2-----2-3ft
water temp 85F
air temp. 82F 15% clouds overhead---95F 20% clouds overhead

I went out to the second reef first but couldn't see so I came back to the first reef and was lucky to see and shoot 3 hogs <img src= " height="23" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x"> Which was way better than I expected to do, so soon after all this high wind and seas.
Water temp is already beginning to drop so spearos might begin to plan ahead their wetsuits for the coming winter.http://spearfishing.world/images/smilies/biggrin.gif
Saw several HUGE bait balls. One was even inside of the first reef :@
I paddled out into the middle of one bait ball that was aprox 30yd X 30yd big. The sea was black with bait. The bait was jumpin and the birds were dropping and hitting the water all around my yak I slipped into the water in the middle of all this but the viz was so bad that I couldn't see what predators were after the bait
I was just VERY happy to be back in the water finally
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brothers---do not give up. There MAY be a light at the end of this very long and dark tunnel :pray: :pray: :pray:

SUNDAY
EAST SOUTHEAST WINDS 8 TO 11 KNOTS. SEAS 2 FEET.
INTRACOASTAL WATERS A LIGHT CHOP. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS.

MONDAY
SOUTH SOUTHEAST WINDS 12 TO 15 KNOTS. SEAS 2 TO 3 FEET.

TUESDAY
EAST SOUTHEAST WINDS 10 TO 13 KNOTS. SEAS 2 TO 3 FEET.

WEDNESDAY
EAST SOUTHEAST WINDS 13 TO 16 KNOTS. SEAS 2 TO 4 FEET.

National Weather Service
Generated 1835 UTC, Saturday, Sep 25, 2010
Document URL http://weather.noaa.gov/cgi

If you look closely at Tin Mans first picture on post 13, you will see how his line guide is anchored into the muzzle. The heavy SS wire he uses for the line guide is actually a full loop that goes completely through the Tin Man muzzle and both ends of the SS wire is what you see on the top of the muzzle that is trapped by the barrel in that first picture. There is NO WAY that the Tin Man line guide is EVER going to come loose from the Tin Man muzzle. <img src= " height="23" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x">

Drakon--unless I missed it, you haven't posted what gun you need the new muzzle for.
Please to keep in mind that not all muzzles will fit all barrels.
Hope this helps

shallow runner--

http://www.cristspears.com/

Quote from John Hanson

Simple is best. Take a look at Tin Man's muzzles. They are one of my favorites.
I prefer individual band holes rather than one large open slot.

Drakon--X2 what John said.
IMO the Tin Man muzzle is the best because:
1. I have several Tin Man muzzles now and almost ALL have the kill spike, like in LunkerBusters picture. The spike is VERY important to me and is not found on any other pipe gun muzzle that I know of.
2. I have never had a Tin Man product that was less than 100%.
Hope this helps
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Dan--will the GoPro bolt up on the new Pursuit Aim mask ?
Are you selling the extra housings ?
I may need the GoPro and extra housing and the Persuit Aim mask after seeing the great quality of the new GoPro blurry fix

greekdiver---WOW, that is a GREAT video
NICE shooting at a long way back up <img src= " height="23" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x">
Your video answered a lot of questions I had:
1. Like how good are the GoPro pictures at deeper depth
2. Like how well does the head mounting work
3. What setting to use on the GoPro.

Thanks again for taking all that time and effort to produce another great video.
You remain a great inspiration to me and many others here :toast2:

1. The later you are, the more excited your dogs are to see you.

2. Dogs don't notice if you call them by another dog's name.

3. Dogs like it if you leave a lot of things on the floor.

4. A dog's parents never visit.

5. Dogs agree that you have to raise your voice to get your point across.

6. You never have to wait for a dog; they're ready to go 24 hours a day.

7. Dogs like to go hunting and fishing.

8. A dog will not wake you up at night to ask, "If I died, would you get another dog?"

9.If a dog has babies, you can put an ad in the paper and give them away.

10. A dog will let you put a studded collar on it without calling you a pervert.

11. If a dog smells another dog on you, they don't get mad. They just think it's interesting.

12. Dogs like to ride in the back of a pickup truck.

13. Dogs love for you to leave the toilet seat up!

And last, but not least:

14. If a dog leaves, it won't take half of your stuff.

To test this theory:
LOCK your spouse and your dog in the garage for an hour.
Then open it and see who's HAPPY to see you.

I talked to a local spearo yesterday that told me he flew round trip to PR for $90. on Spriit Airlines.
This might be our only spearin option for the next week or so. (for those of us that can call-in sick)
Hope this helps

Scupper pro for $200.
http://miami.craigslist.org/brw/spo/1961280127.html

LunkerBuster--the Mako ETPG is GREAT.
I'm lovin the whole gun, but as you say, the grip/loading pad is going to take some getting used to.

spearos--this doesn't look promising.
SMALL CRAFT SHOULD EXERCISE CAUTION
REST OF TODAY
EAST WINDS 14 TO 17 KNOTS. SEAS 3 TO 5 FEET.

FRIDAY
EAST NORTHEAST WINDS 13 TO 16 KNOTS NEAR SHORE TO EAST
NORTHEAST 13 TO 18 KNOTS IN THE GULF STREAM. SEAS 3 to 5 FEET.

SATURDAY
EAST NORTHEAST WINDS 13 TO 18 KNOTS. SEAS 3 TO 5 FEET

SUNDAY
NORTH NORTHEAST WINDS 13 TO 18 KNOTS. SEAS 4 TO 6 FEET
NEAR SHORE AND UP TO 6 TO 8 FEET IN THE GULF STREAM.

MONDAY
NORTHEAST WINDS 14 TO 17 KNOTS. SEAS 6 TO 8 FEET.
NORTHEAST SWELL 2 TO 3 FEET. INTRACOASTAL WATERS A MODERATE CHOP.

National Weather Service
Generated 1718 UTC, Thursday, Sep 16, 2010

mrmike--sounds like you had a good time
Please to post any pic of your cruise that you want to share.
I loved Cozumel. Back in the 70's and 80's I used to take my PADI students down there for OW classes. I was a 25-35 yrs old scuba instructor that was HAPPY to adjust any and all equipment on my bikini clad students. Some even got "discounts".

spearos-- I have no financial interest in the ETPG. Dan is as open minded and interested in new ideas as any of us here so we wanted to post what has been going on with the ETPG.
Mako has picked up the ETPG idea/design and full production is coming soon.
I received the "first" production ETPG from Tin Man several days ago and am very excited to post about this new gun design and production here on Freedivingspearfishing
I'm hoping that any and all interested spearos will post their thoughts about ETPGs
I'm hoping that fuzz or Don Paul or other "old timie" spearos could contribute their thoughts about this ETPG as wel l
The following is a some of the shared intel between me and Tin Man so far.

"Jeff--the new alum. Mako ETPG is great
I have been in the water just 3 days with it so far. Here is what I've seen so far:
Mako ETPG;
1. Is a little heavier than my carbon ETPG set up exactly the same way.
2. Mako ETPG 120 just barely floats with reel on and shaft out. The M ETPG floats with the gun almost straight up, grip down. It floats exactly he same with the reel on OR off. (edit--the RA Vecta reel with 200f 600lb QPowerline OFF the gun sinks very slowly)
3. Mako is harder to load than the RA as the Mako loading pad/pad holder adds over 2in to the overall gun length.
4. I like the M ETPG safety, it works great and so far it has never accidently switched to the "not fire" position like other guns always does.
5. M ETPG has a great sight picture and shoots dead on with 2 bands.
6. M ETPG recoil is very minimal as expected, due to the increased gun weight. (If you want felt recoil try an ultra light CF 120, it feels like a pocket .357 going off in your hand).
7. The Tin Man 2 band spiked muzzle is a perfect fit and is the perefect add on to the M ETPG for any serious spearo.
I'll write more later,
Thanks Tin Man
hau"
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Quote from LunkerBuster

hahahaha, I love that Hua can legitimately criticize us for not posting pics now...my how far you've come

I have come this far BECAUSE of all the help I have received from spearos here :toast2:.
When I first logged on to this forum I didn't even know how to copy/paste:@
And sdeisen has spent hours tutering me on how to use the computer so it was impossible for me to NOT harass him.

The weather SUCKS looking out my back door.

Late report for yesterday:

South of Port Everglades today
begin at 830am--------end at 1pm
wind from NE at 5mph--from NE at 10mph
current S to N at 1mph--same
viz 60f in 40fsw------40f in 40fsw
seas less than 2------same
water temp 86F
air temp. 82F no clouds overhead---95F 10% clouds overhead

Solo today on another near perfect weather day
Viz was better today for more hours for some reason
Was strange having the wind from the North and the current from the South.
Saw a BIG black today, but he was smarter than me. But I now have his address saved on my GPS;)
Only got 2 fish: 1 hog that swam up from 40f to see what I was <img src= " height="23" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x">
and a mac that THOUGHT he was at a safe distance from my Mako ETPG <img src= " height="23" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x">
(the flopper just barely got through him which means he was aprox 21f from my gun hand when my spear hit him)

Good luck Rhodyhunter

Nice reports sdeisen

:wantpics: (sorry, couldn't resist :))

South of Port Everglades today
begin at 830am--------end at 1pm
wind from SE at 5mph--from SE at 8mph
current S to N at 1 1/2mph--S to N at 1 mph
viz 40f in 40fsw------20f in 15fsw
seas less than 2------same
water temp 86F
air temp. 82F 10% clouds overhead---96F 10% clouds overhead

Solo today on another near perfect weather day
Had boats all over me today. Everybody from beach spearos to 2tank scuba spearos on scooters were in the water today. So I only got 2 hogs in 4 1/2 hours in the water.
But I had fun, thats all that matters