Hello friends,
The season has been hectic and now with hurricane Ernesto drenching us throughly I wanted to share a few great pictures I've been sent and have taken this summer. Anyone feel free to send them around to other forums if you wish as I'm only a member of this one since I'm short of time so it makes it easy to post here:
The first ones are a set from Miguel Guinovart of Miami.
Unless you live in Miami and are involved in the local spearfishing community you have never heard of Mojarra, although ask any serious spearfisherman who Mojarra is down there and they will speak of him as a God. An elusive diver who doesn't spend much time on land as he makes a living from the sea.
I met Mojarra in the 98' Nationals in the Keys. Soft spoken and quiet he's getting up there in his career and is still one of the best, if not reputed the best, spearfisherman from the Miami area.
Anyhow, after his 2nd place Individual at this year's Nationals he was diving somewhere off the Keys and speared this enormous wahoo of 90lbs. Not only is a wahoo of that size quite incredible, especially in the Keys, but what made this story even more impressive was that Mojarra speared it with his Cobra 115 without a float line or reel-literally stoning the fish. Had he not stoned it...well you get the picture.
I was especially proud of him with this picture because aside from being an avid blue water hunter myself I knew that the man had used pneumatic guns exclusively for the last 30 years. I am now told by the dealer who sent me these shots and who is close friends with Mojarra, Ulises at Scubas World in Miami, that he now only uses these guns because he loves their attributes. From the perspective of someone behind the guns, the research & development as well as US sales it is a nice pat on the back that we can teach a salty old dog like Mojarra new tricks with new tools some times! Bravo Mojarra!
The season has been hectic and now with hurricane Ernesto drenching us throughly I wanted to share a few great pictures I've been sent and have taken this summer. Anyone feel free to send them around to other forums if you wish as I'm only a member of this one since I'm short of time so it makes it easy to post here:
The first ones are a set from Miguel Guinovart of Miami.
Unless you live in Miami and are involved in the local spearfishing community you have never heard of Mojarra, although ask any serious spearfisherman who Mojarra is down there and they will speak of him as a God. An elusive diver who doesn't spend much time on land as he makes a living from the sea.
I met Mojarra in the 98' Nationals in the Keys. Soft spoken and quiet he's getting up there in his career and is still one of the best, if not reputed the best, spearfisherman from the Miami area.
Anyhow, after his 2nd place Individual at this year's Nationals he was diving somewhere off the Keys and speared this enormous wahoo of 90lbs. Not only is a wahoo of that size quite incredible, especially in the Keys, but what made this story even more impressive was that Mojarra speared it with his Cobra 115 without a float line or reel-literally stoning the fish. Had he not stoned it...well you get the picture.
I was especially proud of him with this picture because aside from being an avid blue water hunter myself I knew that the man had used pneumatic guns exclusively for the last 30 years. I am now told by the dealer who sent me these shots and who is close friends with Mojarra, Ulises at Scubas World in Miami, that he now only uses these guns because he loves their attributes. From the perspective of someone behind the guns, the research & development as well as US sales it is a nice pat on the back that we can teach a salty old dog like Mojarra new tricks with new tools some times! Bravo Mojarra!
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