hau you have old mentors?? Jeez!! How old are they!! lol j/K!
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Nice one Roberto! Its great when they keep the vibrant colors like in your pic after being shot. Makes for good photos but the colors usually don't last long if at all.
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Very nice work. Knife making is something that I have always wanted to learn more about.
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nice viz!! was that in miami?
oo and how r u not in a wetsuit! That water's freezin!!! lol
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. . . this gun is a true custom ,at every step in construction i would send pics to the owner and we would make changes as we went and almost every part on the gun is one of a kind or made just for that gun.this gun was designed for a 5/16 shaft and 3 x 5/8 bands
Although I love the beautiful epoxy work on the other guns, I think the CF euro is my favorite of all the guns that I have seen Phil post, for exactly the reason he stated. When most builders say "custom", they mean you get to pick the length and color. But this one is unique from one end to the other. When I see that gun I can only imagine how much head scratching and late night figuring went into all of the individual details.
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so here's a few dead ones too, don't want to be mistaken for a fish hugger...
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will do. I don't know how you always find the hogs, I see one every now and then but they are usually very small. I see lots of macs up this way and its weird because if I troll the reefs in the boat i get spanish and when I spear i usually only see cero, and can only ever shoot the smallest.
hau has a secret hogfish call that brings the hogs in and gets them to give him a broadside window pane shot on them lol!
BTW, you catch more cero trolling because you're covering more ground. And if you think about you're 25ft of viz that you usually have, you're only seeing a small portion of what is out there.
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wow. good luck with your travels. I would love to leave everything behind for a month or two to do that!
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haha yea these fish are stupid! lol
I think I will get spoiled. I was talking about it with a buddy of mine and he made the point that if we were in Lauderdale, getting that many large hogs would be an amazing day!
As far was fish abundance Gulf coast spearing for hogs definitely beats Ft. Lauderdale spearing. Too bad the viz isn't always good in the gulf
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here is today's catch. Got 2 nice grouper, 4 hogs, and a huge sheepshead.
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Greetings from St Pete, FL! I'm here for a few days over winter break and had the opportunity to dive a few of the shallower numbers around the area. I can honestly say that the amount of fish has really surprised me. The Viz has been awesome over the last few days with a top to bottom viz in 35fsw. My buddies and I have been going out about 6miles and absolutely killing the hogfish! There is an abundance of hogs here and they are super stupid! There are a lot of really larger size hogfish here and it is not uncommon to see two 16-18" hogs swimming together! Pics attached are taken by two spearos over two days
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Ben, I wouldn't call your Andre speargun slender, not by a stretch. It is precisely a west coast style gun.
by slender i meant the height... as in the shape of it isn't just a block of wood that is square shaped. it has that shape to where it is slender in height
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Looking forward to seeing your guns luxemburg.
The gun I shoot is a Andre 120 Euro. It is a deep open track rear handle gun. It is a slender gun with shaping that allows easy turning and tracking in the water.
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Thanks, much better!
great thread..I was fishing on the bay last month and caught the smallest black ever, it was about 10" and had almost inverted coloring, the fish appeared to white and the box marking were brown and black..it was a beautiful fish though, I wish I had grabbed a pic
it looked a little like your pic #6 but with clearer boxes of brown and black
That's the photo I have to find, by far the coolest looking black I have seen. This one was relatively small too, <10lbs.
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Sure if you'd like
. I just wanted to give examples in natural habitat for ID purposes. I think there are a lot of factors that contribute to fish colors after they have been shot. -
Two more....
7 - Death from above view of a lit up black. (~15lbs)
8 - Light body color and black fin tips, (~70-80lbs)
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One of Dan's recent posts gave me the idea to post some pics of black grouper and their different colorations. Here are some of my underwater shots of blacks showing some of the different colorations of live fish (photos have not been adjusted). I do have one additional photo that I couldn't find at the moment that I will dig up of a small black with a very unique light coloring.
1 - Bad quality photo but you can see two blacks in this picture. One with light coloring and black fin tips and the other dark with the light markings(this one is under the cubera). Fish are both approx 30-40lbs
2 - A ~20lb fish with dark brown/black and white markings.
3 - Another ~20lb fish that had pretty unique coloring. Instead of the typical dark brown/black body this one had a significantly lighter brown body with white markings
4 - Small fish (~10lbs) with dark body, black fin tips, and faint white markings.
5 - Typical "lit up" coloring with dark brown body and bright white markings. (20-25lbs)
6 - Separate fish from the one above but displaying the same coloration.
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I really love the look of the Mango wood. Beautifully done.
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Very cool. We use quite a bit of 12" and 16" diameter polyethylene pipe at work. The stuff is unbelievable tough and resistant to impact. We use a special machine that heats (slightly melts) the ends of two pipe sections and then pushes them together to form a "welded" joint. But I think that smaller pieces can also be hand welded using a special hot air gun.
