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GS5 Friday and Saturday Dive?!?!
By: BigJim Date: March 16, 2011, 11:57 pm
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Who's going out?!?!
I'm down for whatever: abs, uni, spearfishing!!
Only dove right in front of the lighthouse last year and would
like to explore new spots/areas, but don't know my way around up
there at all...if you want to take a big smiling guy out and
show him around, I'm your guy!!
;D
Sincerely,
Jim
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Re: GS5 Friday and Saturday Dive?!?!
By: Domenic Date: March 17, 2011, 12:06 am
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Jim, I will go diving with you!
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Re: GS5 Friday and Saturday Dive?!?!
By: BigJim Date: March 17, 2011, 12:09 am
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[quote author=Domenic link=topic=12.msg26#msg26 date=1300338366]
Jim, I will go diving with you!
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NICE Dom!!!
Looking forward to it!!
:)
Sincerely,
Jim
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Re: GS5 Friday and Saturday Dive?!?!
By: Abking Date: March 17, 2011, 12:57 am
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I'm all over it, Jim - we're slaves to the conditions there
though. If it's not "nice" then our choices will be limited.
You've progressed so well in your diving, and it may be time for
the challenges of extremely low viz! ;D JK (kinda) - I hope
we get nice clear water, but be ready for something between zero
and 10' of viz. :)
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Re: GS5 Friday and Saturday Dive?!?!
By: MattS Date: March 17, 2011, 1:44 pm
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I am planning on diving Friday afternoon, and Saturday. AbMan
and I are talking about taking our scuba gear to do a dive
sometime Saturday. The rest the time will be free diving. I
have a waterproof camera that takes HD videos, I would love to
film some harvesting LCKA style!
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Re: GS5 Friday and Saturday Dive?!?!
By: BigJim Date: March 17, 2011, 3:08 pm
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[quote author=Abking link=topic=12.msg31#msg31 date=1300341447]
I'm all over it, Jim - we're slaves to the conditions there
though. If it's not "nice" then our choices will be limited.
You've progressed so well in your diving, and it may be time for
the challenges of extremely low viz! ;D JK (kinda) - I hope
we get nice clear water, but be ready for something between zero
and 10' of viz. :)
[/quote]
Zero vis or not I'm game!! ;D
I've actually taken advantage of quite a few minimal viz/high
surge days down here and every time I am tempted to just come
back another day when conditions are nicer, I remind myself that
those kinds of days are EXACTLY what I need to expand my ability
to dive and have fun in other places up and down the coast!!
Hunting in those less than ideal conditions is definitely way
more of a challenge than the FAC 20+ foot viz days that we have
gotten quite a few of down here this winter....
It's awesome to be able to dive in those great conditions, but I
have also really enjoyed those days when I had to work HARD just
to find a fish, let alone manage to shoot one!!
8)
Looking forward to it fellas!!
Sincerely,
Jim
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Re: GS5 Friday and Saturday Dive?!?!
By: MattS Date: March 17, 2011, 3:28 pm
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BigJim,
What size gun are you using in the low vis conditions? I have a
JBL Magnum and an Omer 82cm that I am happy with (mainly the
Omer). I have a pole spear that work pretty good for the low
visibility days, but have considered getting a shorty gun for
close shooting. It looked like you had a little Biller or Riffe
in your video?
I am really wanting to try for scallops! Not sure if there are
any pinnacles with them at the cove. I may have to dive
Trinidad for them.
Matt
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Re: GS5 Friday and Saturday Dive?!?!
By: Abking Date: March 17, 2011, 4:00 pm
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[quote author=MattS link=topic=12.msg41#msg41 date=1300393695]
BigJim,
What size gun are you using in the low vis conditions? I have a
JBL Magnum and an Omer 82cm that I am happy with (mainly the
Omer). I have a pole spear that work pretty good for the low
visibility days, but have considered getting a shorty gun for
close shooting. It looked like you had a little Biller or Riffe
in your video?
I am really wanting to try for scallops! Not sure if there are
any pinnacles with them at the cove. I may have to dive
Trinidad for them.
Matt
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I've gotten scallops near the Cove... We'll get you dialed,
Matt. :)
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Re: GS5 Friday and Saturday Dive?!?!
By: BigJim Date: March 17, 2011, 4:30 pm
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[quote author=MattS link=topic=12.msg41#msg41 date=1300393695]
BigJim,
What size gun are you using in the low vis conditions? I have a
JBL Magnum and an Omer 82cm that I am happy with (mainly the
Omer). I have a pole spear that work pretty good for the low
visibility days, but have considered getting a shorty gun for
close shooting. It looked like you had a little Biller or Riffe
in your video?
I am really wanting to try for scallops! Not sure if there are
any pinnacles with them at the cove. I may have to dive
Trinidad for them.
Matt
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Matt...my first gun I got was way too big for any low viz/high
surge conditions and even though it is a great gun (Riffe
Mid-Handle 44") that I got for a great price ($50) it is
overkill for rockfish/hole hunting.
I then got a 75cm Mako Predator Pro....cool looking gun and was
deadly accurate, but it jammed on me the very first time out and
even though they sent me a replacement part right away I lost
confidence in it...
I sold the repaired Mako at price to Andy baitnbeer Gomez who
loves it, and used the cash to buy a Riffe Padauk Competitor 00
for $225 online from Austins in Miami (free shipping, no tax,
very nice guys).
HTML http://www.austinsdiving.com/proddetail.php?prod=RCP-0000
HTML http://www.speargun.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=16%3Apadauk-series&catid=9&Itemid=10
27 inches long and beautiful dark blood red wood...supposedly
the hard straight Padauk wood allows the gun to be made from one
piece of wood and so the price is cheaper than the other Riffe's
but besides that is exactly the same...
Have it rigged with only one wrap of line and a single "Hawaian
Flopper" shaft, and one beefed up 5/8 band and one of the 1/2
bands it comes with.
It has enough range to pick off schooling blues at about 6 feet
(about as far as I can accurately aim anyways to be honest!!),
and get real tight in even the smallest holes. The small size
also makes it very easy to move around with in strong surge.
For hunting in the holes I am just loading the one 5/8 band to
try and avoid messing up the shaft on the rocks and have found
it has plenty of power to punch through a Cabbies skull....will
see how it does on Ling skulls come April 1st!!
When the vis is better it is real easy to load the other band to
give me a little more power/range and it snaps out nicely to the
end of the shooting line. Then if I am going to check out a hole
I can slip the second band off real easy as well.
My one "complaint" is that with the single hawaiian flopper
shaft you really need to get the shaft about two inches all the
way through the fish to have the flopper "engage"...This can be
real hard to do in some holes where the fish is right up against
the rock!! I am trying to work on shot angle/placement in these
scenarios, but still sometimes the shaft does not go through far
enough cuz it hits the rock on the other side and then if I
don't get control of the fish immediately they can slip off the
shaft....
Riffe sells a threaded shaft for these guns and I am thiniking
of getting one and a smaller double or single flopper that sits
closer to the tip of the shaft to increase the chances that it
will go all the way through...but the shafts aren't cheap and so
for now I am working with the one I got!!
;)
In between buying the Mako and selling the Mako I also picked up
an AB Biller 32 with some christmas stocking $$. IMHO it works
great and I have shot plenty of fish with it....my buddy Jim
Okumoto welds 5 prong barbed trident tips and he gave me a
couple to use...I put one on the Biller and it works great and
had plenty of holding power for big grassies, cabbies and eels!!
Not sure if they could hold a big Ling down though!!
The difference in ability to move in surge and get tight in
holes was still limiting with the 32 Biller, and definitely feel
that the 27" Riffe is my favorite gun I have used so far for the
kind of hunting I do!!
Anyway....if you want to try it out up at GS5 just let me know!!
Oh yeah....I am DOWN to look for a scallop as well!!
;D
Sincerely,
Jim
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Re: GS5 Friday and Saturday Dive?!?!
By: MattS Date: March 17, 2011, 6:07 pm
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Thanks Jim!
I may have to pack the long fins! Of course I need to start
running again, it has been a long fat building winter. I can't
wait to get in the water, it has been too long. I may take the
family to the lake for some diving. I can't spear, but can take
the camera for the Black Bass and turtles. I need to start
getting my lungs built up again, and get into the mode.
Scallops would be sweet! We will definitely have to go for some
for the grill. How deep have you found them Eric? Last year I
could go 30-40 feet with the long fins.
Matt
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