Feb 8, 2017 - Hump Day Staycation surprise So glad the new hogfish regulations haven't been implemented yet! Hogfish would be closed right now if they had been. Two nice hogs on the very first spot. Check out the blog
Feb 8, 2017 - Hump Day Staycation surprise So glad the new hogfish regulations haven't been implemented yet! Hogfish would be closed right now if they had been. Two nice hogs on the very first spot. Check out the blog
Feb 8, 2017 - Hump Day Staycation surprise So glad the new hogfish regulations haven't been implemented yet! Hogfish would be closed right now if they had been. Two nice hogs on the very first spot. Check out the blog
Feb 8, 2017 - Hump Day Staycation surprise So glad the new hogfish regulations haven't been implemented yet! Hogfish would be closed right now if they had been. Two nice hogs on the very first spot. Check out the blog
I was interested in. Nevertheless, she hung in there with me and we had a pretty good time while I was able to land a few hogfish for some fresh catch-of-the-day. By Friday (Day 4), Carlos is thinking that I'm bored because I haven't been able to...
in essence making it a $400 learning experience. Very soon after Jorge bags the first fish of trip in the way of a nice hogfish and we spend the next 45 minutes landing the rest of our dinner... a yellowfin grouper, a Nassau grouper and a few more hogs....
rest and nourishment and around 3p we decide to head back out to see if we can round out our catch with some snappers and hogfish. Unfortunately, the wind has picked up considerably by the time we get back out and the slop and soup was just too much to...
some of you) tremendously along the way. I have looked forward to my Summer escapades chasing mahi, snapper, grouper, hogfish and facing sharks and goliaths every Spring... that is, up until this year. Life as we all know gets complicated and sometimes...
turned to a couple of small black grouper that are uncommon here. Unfortunately in doing so, I completely overlook a large hogfish feeding in the sand even after my brother in law mentions it to me as he swims up. I dive and land a mangrove, but...
brother in law lands a nice black grouper afterwards as we drifted with the current. We close out the day with our limit of hogfish for dinner and our black grouper limit as well. Sunday after striking out at #113, a spot that was incredibly prolific at...
even if we don't land fish when we get to the next spot. As I make my way around the reef, I see only small mangroves and hogfish that although possibly legal just weren't worth shooting. Sometimes spots with less activity are good because it gives me...
of us wanted to swim back to the boat to grab a tickle stick and a net). We also ended up shooting a few decent sized hogfish at this spot, so we decided to add a new Miami waypoint to our list. To this point, we had pretty much been killing time until...
for a big catch of my very own. This weekend we decided to catch the high slack tide closer in so we could stock up on some hogfish as we hadn't really focused on those much so far and the home freezers were getting a little barren of that particularly...
on the way out and back from fishing. So we put the bay boat in, load up our gear and head out with a plan to pick up some hogfish and then head out to deeper water to see if we can find some clean water like promised us by our above the water-line...
some time until the early afternoon high tide which we wanted to hit closer to the 7 mile bridge for some mangroves and hogfish. This turns out to be a good decision because after only few minutes in the water I spot what seems to be a legal gag grouper...
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March 4, 2023 - What a great day for a bucket list fish!
My throw flasher was working overtime this day! Got to check a fish off my bucket list with a 25# African Pompano.
Pirate Trip 2022 - Great Harbour, Chub and North Bimini
Another overdue cut from our 2022 Spearinglife Pirate Trip to Great Harbour. We ended up visiting multiple locations, like Chub, the Gingerbreads and North Bimini, but as usual, the trip was epic! Another year where I'm the only one with a camera, but like I tell my fellow pirates... I do what I can! Hoping to publish an extended version with some fun we had back at the rental with a big Lemon shark and a useless Sharkbanz shark repellant, but this cut will have to hold us over until then. Keep living life on a single breath!
Pirate Trip 2022 - Great Harbour, Chub and North Bimini
Another overdue cut from our 2022 Spearinglife Pirate Trip to Great Harbour. We ended up visiting multiple locations, like Chub, the Gingerbreads and North Bimini, but as usual, the trip was epic! Another year where I'm the only one with a camera, but like I tell my fellow pirates... I do what I can! Hoping to publish an extended version with some fun we had back at the rental with a big Lemon shark and a useless Sharkbanz shark repellant, but this cut will have to hold us over until then. Keep living life on a single breath!
Pirate Trip 2022 - Great Harbour, Chub and North Bimini
Another overdue cut from our 2022 Spearinglife Pirate Trip to Great Harbour. We ended up visiting multiple locations, like Chub, the Gingerbreads and North Bimini, but as usual, the trip was epic! Another year where I'm the only one with a camera, but like I tell my fellow pirates... I do what I can! Hoping to publish an extended version with some fun we had back at the rental with a big Lemon shark and a useless Sharkbanz shark repellant, but this cut will have to hold us over until then. Keep living life on a single breath!
Pirate Trip 2022 - Great Harbour, Chub and North Bimini
Another overdue cut from our 2022 Spearinglife Pirate Trip to Great Harbour. We ended up visiting multiple locations, like Chub, the Gingerbreads and North Bimini, but as usual, the trip was epic! Another year where I'm the only one with a camera, but like I tell my fellow pirates... I do what I can! Hoping to publish an extended version with some fun we had back at the rental with a big Lemon shark and a useless Sharkbanz shark repellant, but this cut will have to hold us over until then. Keep living life on a single breath!
This review is actually long overdue as I've had this mask for well over a year now and I honestly don't know why I hadn't done it before now. After trying multiple masks over several years (and several hundred dollars), some were good (Mystic, Star, Nano), and some were bad (Zero Cubed). Before this, I had actually decided upon the Cressi Nano as "the one". I thoroughly enjoyed the fit and volume of the Nano, but there were a couple of VERY minor issues with the fit. I'm convinced that the...
{sigplus link=goprohero2 index=1} {/sigplus}I finally jumped on the HD bandwagon and bought myself a Hero2 HD digital camera by GoPro. These little beauties have been around for quite a while now so hearing about them isn't exactly news. But since I finally got around to purchasing one for myself and it happens to be that the Hero2 is the biggest leap in performance that they've given these cameras since their launch, I figured I would put in my 2 cents worth.
Over the weekend of March 27 th & 28 th I took the Level 1 Freediving course offered by FII (Freediving Instructors International) at their Headquarters in Pompano Beach FL. FII was started by Martin Stepanek, a multiple time freediving world record holder. The Level 1 curriculum is taught over a 2 day course. The first day is classroom and pool based and spans almost 9 hours. This course is designed for beginning freedivers and is supposed to get novice divers to a depth of 66 feet.
This past weekend, I finally got to go to The Blue Wild dive expo. After 3 years of everybody telling me about it and not being around to get to go to it, the stars finally aligned and I was able to check it out. Unfortunately, it meant missing out on 5-10mph winds and less than 1' seas inside the reef, but there were other reasons I couldn't get out this weekend, so I figured I would take advantage to check it out and possibly win something from the raffle to boot (I won't keep you in...
Back in March of 2010 I enrolled in and completed the FII Level One freediving course . I was extremely happy with the course content and the outcome (check out the SpearView ). Unfortunately for me, I'm not a professional freediver, so as with many people, life gets in the way and complicated which in turn keeps you from building a true regimen that reinforces all the good behavior learned in the course. Needless to say, I forgot some of the basics, fell back into many of my old bad habits...
I realized recently that I had overlooked the fact that I had purchased and used some new SpearGear at the beginning of the Summer of 2011 and hadn't gotten around to posting about it (here or in SpearGear). This article is going to be one that definitely crosses over between SpearViews and SpearGear because of the fact that I do own it but I definitely think it's worthy of a review as well. In the end, SpearViews won the coin toss deciding where I would put the article (especially after I...
Seas: 3-5' Winds: 15-25 SE Viz: 10-15 Temp: 86F This week I was hoping for something a little extra. At the start of this weekend I hadn't shot a grouper yet all summer and I was hoping I would get the first one in spite of the fact that the weather forecast was pretty horrible and I was only going to get to dive Saturday because we had to get back home early this weekend to make it in time for a friend's daughter's birthday. So with little time and an unfavorable forecast, I was going to see...
Winds: (Saturday) 2-5 Variable Seas: (Saturday) 2-3 inside the reef, 2-3 outside the reef Surf Temp: +/- 84 F Viz: 25-30 feet Unfortunately, due to some mechanical difficulties, we were only able to dive Saturday morning, but the morning was very nice. High tide was at about 10:30am, and we were about an hour early. We fought the incoming tide for about 30 minutes before it started to slacken up. After that we got a good 45 minutes of slack tide, where we were really able to make up some...
Wind Seas Viz Temp E-SE 18-24mph 4-6' 5-15' 79F The excitement for grouper opening started a few weeks ago when my brother in law and I started discussing our plans. There was talk of scouting on Sunday and taking Monday through Wednesday off to maximize our time on the water. We would connect with our friends Lazaro and Chris and we were hopeful that we would have a good opening like last year. As usual, we talked timing, accommodations and weather forecasts. After talking about it for about...
Winds: 0-5 Seas: Less than 1 foot Surf Temp: 87F Viz: 20-25 feet Considering we had a hurricane pass through the area within the past 7 days, the water was not too bad. Viz was a solid 20-25 feet in most of the areas we dive. The fish were there, but nothing in the monster range. We had a solid day of shooting mangoes. The water was extremely flat so even my kid got to swim along with his old man while the rest of the family was on the boat. As my son gets older, I only hope he takes a healthy...
Wind Seas Viz Temp 5-10 SSE 1-3' 25-55' 85F Many times I get asked the question, "How many fish have you lost to sharks?" and I always find it interesting how people that don't dive or spearfish frequently automatically associate what we do with sharks and attacks and how they typically believe that these are some kind of single threat. The truth is that although I have been buzzed by sharks and even surrrounded by sharks, historically, I have lost countless fish to barracuda while losses to...
Winds: 5-10 SSE Seas: 1 foot Surf Temp: +/- 76F Viz: 25-35 feet After receiving a late Saturday afternoon call, and some frantic packing of all my stuff, I was waiting at the marina for my friends at 7:30am to do some more diving in Miami. We headed out of Matheson Hammock marina towards Fowey Light early enough to pass about a dozen boats making bait (what's that stuff used for again?). The seas were completely flat as far as the eye could see, and the best I have seen in Miami for quite some...