Posts by hau

Dan--------the only dogs I can shoot are the stupid ones that have not been shot at before:)
The EDUCATED ones won't let me get close enough
Smaller dog snappers are like curious cats. Spearing some kinds of fish reminds me of varmint hunting. I like to watch them come in when I "call"them correctly

At Dania Pier today
begin at 9am-----------------end at 6pm
wind from ESE at 8mph------same
water 89F
current 1/2mph from N------same
viz 40f in 45fsw--------------20f in 25fsw
seas 2-3f---------------------about same
air 84F PC--------------------90F PC

Solo today. Started out on Dania 3rd reef but the viz sucked so I came back in to the 2nd reef for the rest of the day. Saw VERY few shootable fish but managed 3 hogs, 2 macs, 4 dogs, 1 porgey and 2 muttons. All of average size. Not many fish for 9 hours of swimming but it was nice to just get back into the water after a few days off

edeison88--sorry I missed u. Glad u got a PB today

WOW that's some beautiful fish
Too bad about the flopper:(
Congratulations

At Meade St for the last 3 days [#133, #134 an #135]

Today me and fish2400 met up at Meade St. for a half day.
Seas were less than yesterday but the viz was still at 30f in 30fsw
Lots an lots of boats on the water today
fiah2400 had to go in before me so I don't know how he did. Hope he got into more fish than I did as I got 3 smaller macks, 2 ok schoolmasters an 6 jacks.
Today was another beautiful yak freedivingspearfishing day

seaweed----long time no see. Great to see you the other day. I lucked out and tested out high enough that I got a week or so off.
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A friend of ours has to sell his Scupper Pro to fix his Jeep

White Scupper Pro TW, almost new condition.
Has paddle and maybe yak seat.
"$450. OBO"
He lives in Ft. Lauderdale and may be able to deliver to local
His text / phone # is 954-591-1121
Hope this helps

thanks brother
I just ask for one more good day of spearin
just one more day
just one more day
:hau:

That is a beautiful work of art.
Nice touch with the integrated muzzle
Thanks for sharing

black1---Congratulations
Outstanding freediving
Be safe

[I'm with LB. Someday I'll be able to take the course.]

BTW Is there an age limit for Level 2? I'm 59 last week.

Happy Birthday Hau.

Cheers, Don

I am not the sharpest tool in the shed, but I would like to contribute what I can.
1.From past experience a pencil point shaped tip does not CUT through the fish as a tricut tip does, therefore there is less risk of the shaft pulling out of a fish when using a pencil pointed shaft.
2. As Dan has said, firing a full powered shaft through a reef fish into the reef is hard on shaft tips. My solution to THAT problem is to depower my gun by taking 1 band off to shoot a hog at 12". I swim around with both bands on cocked incase a mac / cuda swims by. The hog will almost always give me time to depower, where you have 2-3 seconds to line up and shoot a mac.
3. Another factor effecting shaft performance is the Wetted Surface of the shaft. This is a HYDROdynamic only factor, not shared with arrows or other AEROdynamic objects.

others--I wish I was smart enough to understand the formulas and equasions. Thank you
All I know is that when I release the shaft on my RA, the muzzle ends up higher then BEFORE I released the shaft.

seaweed---thanks for this thread:)

Just sitting here looking out the window the water / wind was beautiful yesterday and today.
Wish I could have been out there with u guys
Thanks for the reports

John Hansen---WOW that is a nice looking pipe gun you got there.
I now see how easy it would be to use the existing muzzle mounting holes for a ti band elevator pipe on your Mako---good idea
How is the stock Mako grip attached to the gun?
Is it possible to remove the grip from the Mako handle and use Tin Mans shapelock system for a grip you like better?
"just thinking out loud"

Tin Man--[I still want a new Tin Man enclosed track carbon fiber pipe gun. HINT, HINT]:pray:

We have competency testing at work for the next 2-3 weeks so i'm out of the water till it is over.
Hope others can contribute to the conditions reports while I'm out

black1----I have and use 3 RA composite reels with 200f of 600lb QPowerline on each reel.
I have had to self repair 1 reel and had 2 reel/line lock ups only in over 130 days of spearin, which to me is a good record. I also like the fact that the RA reel is made by RA for the RA guns and that the reel/barrel mount is very easy and secure
seaweed prefers the Maorisub Dentex reel which looks like a very good reel but I was concerned that the company /dealers were more limited and that the Dentex looked more complicated than the RA. This is just my opinion without ever actually buying / using the Dentex

John Hanson-----IMO band elevators will not be needed ONCE the Tin Man Enclosed Track CF barrels become available
Something else I have recently learned after starting using Tin Mans new muzzle/spike is that the target sight picture is very much IMPROVED when the bands ARE NOT elevated. Again just my opinion based on more than 40hours+ of actual use.

I know you guys are more than capable of swimming out there, but I just wanted to remind Dan that my spare yak was almost always available to him to use IF he chose not to swim out.
Thanks Mariner

At Meade St today
begin at 930am--------------------end at 1230pm
wind from West at 5mph---------same
water temp 88F
current from S at 1/2mph------ same
viz 40f in 25fsw------------------30f in 25fsw
seas less than 2f-----------------almost flat
air 80F PC-------------------------86F Cloudy

Me and scott at Meade St for 1/2 a day
Scott got at least 1 nice hog.
I lucked out and got 2 hogs, 2 macks and a small dog
We couldn't find the fish again today
A big front came over just as we were getting in the water. The cloud cover kept the photoplankton bloom down and we could have speared fish all day with good viz.

LunkerBuster--the dream is almost over as I have testing at work for the next 2-3 weeks that will stop me from spearin

At Dania pier
begin at 8am------------------------end at 1pm
wind from NW at 5mph-----------from N at 5mph
water temp 88F
current from N at 1/2mph--------same
viz 40f in 35fsw--------------------35f in 35fsw
seas less than 2f-------------------almost flat
air 82F PC---------------------------87F cloudy

Thanks for the report sdeisen. I would say you gave a very good report
We swam for hours and never did really find the fish.
The mutton I DID get was because he commited the "mutton suicide mistake". Almost all small to average size non hunted muttons will fall for this and swim BACK to the spearo;)
We had a very relaxing morning yak spearin. Just wish we had seen more better fish
Thanks sdeisen

Dan--- I wouldn't want to swim out the 2nd reef. Would be too much for me and in the summer time the storms come up fast sometimes and a swimmer might not be able to get to shore ahead of a storm.
You are welcome ANYTIME to use my spare yak that lives on top of my truck. It comes with paddle OR peddles, dive flag, anchor and anchor line and compass. Loaning it out is no hassle for me at all as all I have to do extra is take the spare yak off the truck and then put it back on the truck when we are done spearin. I could even meet you at a beach closer to your house

Speed that the GPS [yak] is traveling

I never did a trip distance calculation on the yaks. It would not be to hard to measure since mainly our yak distance is from point A at the beach to point B at the dive spot of the day and back. Our GPS lat/lon numbers would provide that distance.
I do know that we generally average 4mph OUT to a spearin spot and 5mph BACK to the beach. This is because we try to pick a spearin sport of the day so that we return WITH the waves and wind.