Theres a beach right next to kenosha harbor and I know theres a lot of hotels nearby but I would question the "night life" real close because at least takin hwy 50 in the area looks a tad sketchy. If it were me I would stay closer to lake geneva. Just my uneducated opinion.
-
Welcome to the DeeperBlue.com Forums, the largest online community dedicated to Freediving, Scuba Diving and Spearfishing. To gain full access to the DeeperBlue.com Forums you must register for a free account. As a registered member you will be able to:
- Join over 44,280+ fellow diving enthusiasts from around the world on this forum
- Participate in and browse from over 516,210+ posts.
- Communicate privately with other divers from around the world.
- Post your own photos or view from 7,441+ user submitted images.
- All this and much more...
You can gain access to all this absolutely free when you register for an account, so sign up today!
Spearing/clarity report 2011
- Thread starterJon
- Start date
Thread Status: Hello
, There was no answer in this thread for more than 60 days.
It can take a long time to get an up-to-date response or contact with relevant users.
It can take a long time to get an up-to-date response or contact with relevant users.
I will be at the end of the channel in Kenosha between a 8 and 9... hopefully will see someone there. Trevor said he was probably coming, haven't heard back from anyone else.
Came up to Kenosha, waves are going over the breakwall and water looks like chocolate milk... didn't even bother getting in the water.
I think things are not looking good for a trip this weekend. Can't find a room that is nearby bad visibility. Don't know how often you go by Kenosha harborr but if you get some news about clarity around Thursday let me know. Even with good visibility not having a room nearby means 5 or 6 hours in the car as well as dive all on a Sunday. Don't think I am going to do that but who knows I've done these kind of trips dozen of times.
I won't be diving for the next 3 weekends, got other plans. I'm going to see if I can get weather reports from a contact of mine prior to me making a 2-3 hr roundtrip drive to see huge waves and look at choclate milk like water. It was a crazy day on Lake Michigan though, haven't seen waves that big before.
On the bright side of things I received confirmation from FII that my brother and I will be doing a day (Nov 12th) of the camp in Kona this year... It'd be nice to do more, but we will have a couple non-freedivers with us and want to hit up different dive spots (of course do lots of spearfishing)...
On the bright side of things I received confirmation from FII that my brother and I will be doing a day (Nov 12th) of the camp in Kona this year... It'd be nice to do more, but we will have a couple non-freedivers with us and want to hit up different dive spots (of course do lots of spearfishing)...
Thinking I should just wait for colder weather and not torture myself. Weather has been hot algea seems to be heavier sooner and dive clarity has been short lived and sporadic. To hard to put it together with 3 to 4 hour drive. Not going to make plans in earnest till late october. Unless my dollars worth of hope comes to fruition, lottery.
I just got back from a week of camping/diving up in Vilas county. Water was around 72F - 75F depending upon the lake and vis ranged from 10' to 20'.
Jon
Jon
Attachments
Went to Lake Geneva yesterday with my brother and another pal. Up to 10' of visibility. It rained all day and that keep most all the boaters off the lake. Nice to see a Labor Day weekend with such little traffic.
We speared a mixed bag of Bluegills, Perch and Rock Bass. Equipment used was my brothers Mako, Ronnie's Mini-Sten and my JBL pole spear. I felt no disadvantage using the pole spear and had numerous shot opportunities.
We all saw huge amounts of Large Mouth Bass, for the most part they were very curious and would let you approach very closely and even let me touch a couple them.
Here's a change I made to the JBL. It worked out well and I now have a spear with the capability to easily change the bands and it now has positive buoyancy because no water can get into the tube.
Shoot straight,
rudyc
We speared a mixed bag of Bluegills, Perch and Rock Bass. Equipment used was my brothers Mako, Ronnie's Mini-Sten and my JBL pole spear. I felt no disadvantage using the pole spear and had numerous shot opportunities.
We all saw huge amounts of Large Mouth Bass, for the most part they were very curious and would let you approach very closely and even let me touch a couple them.
Here's a change I made to the JBL. It worked out well and I now have a spear with the capability to easily change the bands and it now has positive buoyancy because no water can get into the tube.
Shoot straight,
rudyc
I like my 70 cm Mako with single 20mm band and the guys there take care of their customers, they have an unconditional three year warantee and a free loaner program for veterans who want to try spearfishing. not to mention low prices.
Went to Montello, WI to shoot the Montello River with a few friends and introduce them to the awesome sport of spearfishing. The visability was decent ~ 8'-9' and unfortunately all I can say is that I got a few fish... they had a hard time connecting, but we saw a ton of fish and they loved it! 
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1865837739555.85785.1649394606&l=fbc7b5a674&type=1
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1865837739555.85785.1649394606&l=fbc7b5a674&type=1
Anyone interested in diving this weekend? I might be building blinds and/or teal hunting, but wouldn't mind diving if someone else is interested...
Chris
Chris
My buddy just got geared up, so we did some freediving at deep lake in Illinois (no spearing). The lake has tons of weeds, but the visibility was pretty good 10ft or so. Saw tons of HUGE bass, and a ton of panfish (the whole time I was wishing I was in Wisconsin).
In other news, my brother and his buddy just took the FII level 1 class on the big Island of Hawaii. Can't wait to get out there for diving and spearfishing...
If anyone wants to get a dive in let me know, see if we can make our schedules mesh. I'm sure a lot of you will be waterfowl hunting, I know I will be.
Regards,
Chris
In other news, my brother and his buddy just took the FII level 1 class on the big Island of Hawaii. Can't wait to get out there for diving and spearfishing...
If anyone wants to get a dive in let me know, see if we can make our schedules mesh. I'm sure a lot of you will be waterfowl hunting, I know I will be.
Regards,
Chris
Good luck drop'n ducks dude! Me diving will be Day-before notice. Lakes in Wisconsin should start clearing up soon.
IF any of you Lake Michigan people see the vis is good and the Salmon are running - PLEASE POST! would love to do some diving with them and get some good footage.
Dive Safe!
IF any of you Lake Michigan people see the vis is good and the Salmon are running - PLEASE POST! would love to do some diving with them and get some good footage.
Dive Safe!
I cant this weekend but definately soon..... and I have a GoPro on its way so I wanna test that out
Did you order the flat lense fix? I'm took some video last weekend, haven't had a chance to look at it yet.
We are going to mount the camera to a shotgun for duck hunting using the mako mount with some extra rubber inside.
We are going to mount the camera to a shotgun for duck hunting using the mako mount with some extra rubber inside.