Moldy Chum talks about the rather horrific practice of spear fishing for Tarpon and links over to someone spearing a large tarpon using scuba… You should go read it and check out the video but I warn you it is ugly and very depressing. Personally, I feel the only sporting way to spearfish is free …
Those who fish are a lot more likely to catch fish… Don’t believe me? Check out these folks! Nuff said…
Being careful! Never ever point a speargun at people! The full story over at the BBC…
Dustin from Gat-Ku shows their new take on rigging a pole-spear for blue water hunting…
Willow contemplates Lion Fish for dinner I just got a new pole-spear… I’ve been looking for a pole-spear for Lion Fish duties as well as something a bit lighter than my tried and true Ray Odor. When I heard that Mako was coming out with a new aluminum three-piece pole spear for not a lot …
I’ve been keeping an eye on a lot of kayak fishing spinoff as it’s the area where we folk on sailboats are most likely to find interesting gear these days… It’s a growing market so you have a lot of folks thinking hard about how to garner a chunk of it and, as a result, …
I’ve always thought a lot of dive gear cost too much, especially spearfishing gear. Let’s take the humble spear head or tip as an example… … It’s your basic double barb spearpoint and this one will set you back nearly $40 (do I hear an ouch?). Now archery is a much bigger sport than spearfishing …
I mentioned a while back that I was thinking of buying a cheap short pole spear with a paralyzer tip to use as a dedicated Lion Fish tool… Thing is, while waiting for my new spear to come in, I have been working on a design that is a bit scaled down and even lighter …
In general, I’m not a big fan of the three prong paralyzer heads for the spearfishing I do… That said, with Lion Fish, the Paralyzer tip makes all kinds of sense and I have been seriously considering adding a cheap fiberglass pole-spear to my quiver as the cost of a paralyzer tip for my current …
Lion Fish are something of an escalating problem here in the Caribbean but since they are actually quite tasty… Eat lots!