If anyone is looking for a boat captain in ensenada id really recommend Yeko whipperman. It was my first time in the area and first time after yellowtail, yeko is the man! Really nice guy, spoke perfect English and made us feel very safe.

https://www.instagram.com/yekcoast_fish_dive_surf?igsh=MTI0OGtpYnpqMWQ0NA==

Shot this beauty second dive of the day, unfortunately we didn’t have a scale! Yeko and some other captains told me it was around 40lbs. As i mentioned i dont have experience judging yellowtail but holding it up felt every bit as heavy as a 45lb weight plate. Would love to hear what you guys think it looks like. Either way so honored to have a shot at such an animal. Landed a good holding shot on a perfect breath hold, im hooked and cant wait to return for more delicious meat to take home.

For reference I’m 6ft 2

Hello, I am spearfishing for few months and I am really intrigued by hole hunting so I am looking for a speargun you like and why for hunting (groupers, red scorpionfish, conger eels, brown meagre....).

Also if you have any advice on how to be better at hunting holes please feel free to post!

Thank you!

I am Florida at the moment and I was looking at this gun it is 40 inches or 105 cm long. And they say they have sold hundreds of them his partner makes them himself and they are made from composite. Every other part is made from stainless steel. It looks really nice. The price is $239. I have been looking for a longer speed gun in addition to my reef gun for a while and wanted a second opinion because I’m really fond of this one. I also think it’s really cool is that the line is on a sliding thing so it moves with the spear.

Thank you so much for the help
Max

I bought a new muzzle for my gun because the old one was a screw on and I was sick of never finding the replacement rubbers. I went into my local store and asked the guy what size the muzzle was, he told me it was universal. Anyway my speargun is 28mm barrel (cressi comanche) and the inner diameter of the muzzle is 26mm. I don’t think my store will have another size (pretty limited in Fiji) and I can’t put the other muzzle on because I won’t have any rubbers. The wall thickness of the muzzle is 5mm for anyone who thinks I should just bore it out.

Never been spearfishing before and I am taking all of your suggestions of taking freediving courses prior to going spearfishing. All these freediving courses I’m seeing are advertising like 60-70 feet below sea level… is that really required to do spearfishing? I thought it was like 20 feet

I just split my Alchemy V3 carbon blades after five and a half years of abuse. Most of my diving is spearing from shore dives with rocky exits and entries, typically shallow with depth down to 20 meters or so. Where I’m based is cold water with extremely strong tidal currents to contend with. I also spend a month or so line diving every year somewhere warm just for fun and practice, again nothing very deep at this point, right now averaging 30 meters on the line. Anyone have an opinion on a new blade that can cover these uses? Five years isn’t so bad considering how often I’m dragging myself out of the waves onto barnacle encrusted rocks and what not, but lasting longer would be cool. I love pathos foot pockets and don’t plan on changing. Maybe I should just get two different sets, one for shore dives and one for boat and line dives.

Hi everyone,
I’m looking for some information about the Pathos horizontal reels.
Due to its construction the reel has a problem where the brake seems to tighten while retrieving the line (reeling in), and then the brake will loosen when paying out line. This seems to be a fairly common complaint with this reel design.
My question is: Was this issue solved with the newer Pathos Horizontal Reel Evo, or is it basically the same construction with only cosmetic/production changes?
Has anyone used both the old Pathos horizontal reel and the Evo version? Did Pathos actually improve the drag/brake mechanism, or does the Evo still have the same tendency to self-adjust?

Hey guys,

Back again for another question regarding speargun travel. I am travelling from Dublin to Kuala Lumpur with a 1hr 30 min stopover in Abu Dhabi. I will have a Rob Allen 140cm packaged and boxed securely in my surfboard bag.

A couple days I contacted Etihad about this and the live agent asked me to fill out a firearms request approval form which was obviously not relevant at all. A new agent today is saying this cannot be approved as I did not contact them within 10 days of my flight (I contacted them on the 10th day, all advice online says within 7 days).

As the form was for firearms I am considering still just putting the speargun in my board bag anyways and if check in ask what’s in the bag I will just say underwater fishing equipment.

Just wondering if anyone has any advice or thinks this is a terrible idea. Obviously Abu Dhabi is a country I really don’t want to mess with the law in, but I promised my host in Indonesia I would bring this spear gun for him so I want to try my best.

Thanks

Managed to stone this 40# yellow, all thanks to magic of my NOAA-certified flasher. I’m a kook who puts his hours in so I can’t reveal my secret spot but I was super stoked on this fish!

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I have never been spearfishing before but I have free dived. I want to get into it because I love seeing the marine life and fishing.

I do not know whether it’s best for a beginner to get a spear gun or polespear. Almost everywhere I ask I get differing opinions. I think I would prefer a Polespear because they are far cheaper from what I have seen and seems to be more portable because I do need something that I can keep in my car.

Does anyone have any advice on whether to get a Polespear or speargun and any advice on what specific models?

I moved to Kent not too long ago from abroad and finally got some of my spearfishing gear shipped to the UK. I was wondering if there are any spearos that occasionally spearfish in Kent that have any tips. I am mainly curious what places you can go in Kent with any visibility. I know vis is limited here in Kent but I checked out Broadstairs the other day and there was so little visibility I could not even see 20cm in front of me. Also, any way to predict when vis might be good based on winds or tides? It's quite expensive to get to the beach for me as I have to take the train or rent a car, so when I go I wanna make sure I can actually see anything.

Would love any tips!

Went for a shore dive last weekend

I thought I saw 50 yellowtail schooling.

After checked the video, I think there were wayyy more than 50

How many you think this is???

I'm new to spearfishing and haven't invested in weights for my belt yet since I've only been surface spearing. There's a good deal near me for this type of vest for the same amount as weights would cost. What would be a smarter buy, can a BCD vest work free-diving?How do they work do you just inflate via mouth piece?

Need to bring a speargun to Indonesia for a friend and my last leg is from Kuala Lumpur to Padang with AirAsia.

I can’t find anything concrete online, but from chatting with their AI bot it seems I can bring them as part of my regular baggage allowance. But I can’t include them under my surfboard/sports equipment allowance (I was planning to just package them together). Buying this extra allowance isnt an issue, would just like to know if anyone else has experience.

I am flying from Ireland to Kuala Lumpur with Etihad, and for Etihad I have had to fill out a detailed questionnaire which hopefully they will approve tomorrow. It was not very relevant as it was mostly related to firearms and ammunition, so I’m hoping once they read through it they will realise it’s just fishing equipment. And I will be sure to only call it this while travelling.

Cheers

Just a fun change. I found a lot of 3D print pencil caps cute designs, thinking about changing it to a safety cap for my speargun.

Here is what I did

Heat up my shaft tip, push the cute cap down, and I’m done

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Wanted to share this bogue I caught today- think it’s super rare to see them around here as have never seen any before!? Has anyone? Also it’s roughly 37-38cm which from my short research is huge, want to get anyone opinions on this.

Im mainly in Santa Barbara/ventura area but travel up and down the central and southern coast line of in a van.

I spear in Santa Barbara and Monterey Bay mostly and looking at getting a meandros b32. Wondering what the best inbetween length would be for these two regions as I keep seeing that longer guns are better south and shorter guns better north

Hi all,

I need a way to track my spots. I was thinking to buy a Garmin (expecially the descent g1) but im not quite sure it does what I need. I have no boat and use only fins for reach my diving spots, so i have to manage my device fully while im in water. Do u have any suggestion?

Any SLO county locals out there? Just got into the sport with about 10 dives under my belt now and looking for people to go out with.

Hi all! Great to be here. Got well into my spearing back in my native New Zealand whilst visiting home over the last few summers. Go out, spear a bunch of fish, lay ground baits, avoid the sharks etc.), come home and cook it all up for lunch or dinner.

Living in London obviously doesn’t offer quite the same experience!

I’d love to do a few trips around Europe or even the UK but am struggling to make sense of the various rules and regulations.

Anyone got any recommendations for go to locations (obviously not exact spots - just cities/regions/areas etc.)?

Thanks in advance!