Anyone spearfish?

hell yea..it all sleeps the same to me...I ain't to proud to sleep on the floor! I'll book my flight for next week


j/k

 

Hell yeah, I wish I was right now. I live and spear Tampa FL. Started out in Okinawa Japan. Unbelievable diving there. A lot similar to Hawaii water.
GT's, Umilu, Uhu, Uku, Dog tooth Tuna, Coral Trout and many others. Great time diving there. I'll dive for the rest of my life because of a year of diving in Okinawa.

BTW if you're planning on freediving Hawaii in the summer, chances are you'll only need about 4lbs of lead. If I'm not mistaken, that's board shorts and rash guard diving conditions. I know that's what we did in the summers in Okinawa.

 

Yah its pretty warm but I still suit-up, think I got like 10lbs on my belt.

 

here is my friend. from a few weeks ago.

 

I grew up in HI, Used to freedive when I was living there. Loved it and miss doing it. Caught all kids of fish!

 

Every chance I get. I do both freedive and scuba. We probably have the best area in the world to spearfish IMO right off shore from us in the Gulf. The oil rigs and bottom structures hold so many fish it's not even funny. Grouper, snapper, ling, amberjack, flounder, triggerfish, sheepshead, scamp, thats pretty much an average cooler after a good days worth of diving.

 

Went out on sunday...The whole day was a fail. Woke up late. Drove 45 mins down there and realized i forgot my fins. Luckly my dad was lifeguarding at a tower 2 mins down the road so i borrowed one of his life guard fins. I suited up, and got out to one of my secret spots. I get into 6ft of water and cant see the end of my spear. It was the worst vis i have ever had in my life! i figured if i went farther out it would get better and it did until my one fin broke...
So pissed off i came in 15 mins later. drove 45 mins home empty handed.

Hopefully the swells will die down and things will shape up

 

What kind of spearguns/slings do you guys use? Knives?

Im currently using a JBL lightning gun with a different shaft. I was using a JBL polespear previous. The knife i am using is a "Blue Tang" Titanium dive knife.


I want a riffe gun and a gatku polespear.

 

My current gun is a Beuchat Marlin 115 with a KO open muzzle double barb riffe shaft and a Omer reel, my big boy gun is a Riffe Euro 130 thats my baby shes only seen the water twice, My pole spear is a two piece Yokoji Half graphite and half aluminum, I had a Hatori knife but I dropped it off the boat so no knife for now.

 

dude i just looked it up. that is one gnarly gun! i like the trigger

 

The Beuchat or the Riffe??

 

Hawaiian sling count?

 

Guarantee, I thought thats what a pole spear was?? I think

 

the beuchat.

And Hawaiian slings do count. anything that can kill a fish underwater i guess haha.

 

well hell ya. I grew up on South Padre Island and used to do that all the time when the water was clear down there. Hell of a good time

 

Yup love that gun, Got the fish in my signature pic with it, stoned from far away.

 

So its been 6 months since ive been able to go spear fishing!! This is pissing me off! Vis has been about 4ft since december. Figures the week i go on vacation (next week) the water is supposed to clear up. I NEED to fish!

 

95ft vis tester day...sorry, I'm not trying to brag or anything...still waiting for the ok

 

Damn... all this talk makes me miss the Island life. I was born and raised in Kailua, Oahu. Been landlocked for far to long...