Chronicles of a Blue Water Hunter

[Asturven]

Miles,

How is everything going with Fernando and the other guys from Spain???

Cheers

Ivan

 

[miles]

02 and 03 and 04 May 2006

Fernando Abella and Daniel Sanchez (Dani), spearo's from Spain and Carlos Martinez from the Med. came to visit!! Unfortunately, the weather was very bad, with strong wind and big sea's, making diving conditions very unpleasant. How-ever, we did manage to get out for three consecutive days.

Day1 - 8 Yellowfin ranging from 40-72kg's
Day2 - very bad weather, but we managed 22 Albacore, ranging from 4-15kg's
Day3 - 7 Yellowfin ranging from 40-82kg's

I'll let these three GREAT SPEARO'S tell you their stories!!!

 

[miles]

More pic's

 

[miles]

now some BIG fish pic's!!! Note the small blue shark in the last picture below the YF!! :martial

 

[miles]

even more pic's

 

[marginatus]

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[miles]

Hiya

[ame]http://www.zippyvideos.com/2566433065107276/yftuna1/[/ame]

Thats a video clip of Carlos shooting a YF when he was here!!!

ENJOY!!

Regards
miles

 

[Luis]

Miles...

You never stop surprising us! Great! There are not too many clips on YF tunas and this one is great, I hope that you can show us many many more!

Best wishes .

 

[Fondueset]

Nice video - awesome to see those tuna jetting around.
What sort of pneumatic is that he's using?

 

[icarus pacific]

You're killin' me, mate!!

Miles-do you know my girlfriend?? You must because you both seem to take a great deal of pleasure in watching me bang my head against the wall! :head



Great, great footage. I'll bet I wasn't the only one yelling at the screen "Your tip, YOUR TIP!!!!" while watching him pump up his gun.

Now that this is your fulltime deal, are you putting together packages for us "man! I gotta go there and do that!" types?? Buddy? :inlove

 

[marginatus]

miles i can't see the movie. i just get: " Downloads are TEMPORARILY disabled for your area. Sorry for any inconvenience".
Can you send it to my email?? marginatus@zmail.pt

thanks

 

[Jimbo]

Great video! Nice chum what is that and how is it prepared?
Jim

 

[Mr. X]

Great video Miles. It provides some useful insights. Can't wait for the DVD(?!).

BTW I've never seen anything like that airgun before -- is it vintage/homemade/...?

 

[Adrian]

Very nice video Miles, it gives the feeling of being there.

 

[island_sands]

now some BIG fish pic's!!! Note the small blue shark in the last picture below the YF!! :martial

miless. is that a shark in the bottom of the second last photo, or another tuna... way in the background at the bottom?
forgive me if its already been asked

EDIT 3 days later: WHAT A COMPLETELY BLONDE QUESTION............................................... rofl rofl

 

[Memo]

its a blonde shark!

 

[Pastor]

Ah... but what a blonde! :chatup

 

[seaman]

what kind of gun is that? never seen one before, how many pumps does it need? it's dead on ... thank's for sharing

 

[Fondueset]

I think it's a variation on the 'hydraulically charged' pneumatics. There is a thread somewhere around that discusses the design in detail - though this gun is different that the ones in the thread. They worked by repeated partial insertions of the shaft into the barrel - the shaft was sealed and would push the water column against a one-way valve. The valve would open under the pressure - allowing water into the body of the gun barrel where it exerted pressure against a pneumatic piston. The one way valve being the ticket to maintaining what could be variable pressure - depending on the range/power needed.

The gun in the movie appears to employ a leveraged pump in the same way.

 

[miles]

Hiya

I've been a bit busy over the past week or two, so i'll cram in some pic's!!

My wife was a bit tired of all the tuna fishing and wanted to get away and relax. So, she MADE me take her rock and surf fishing!!! The week-end was a mixture of tears and joy. After a driving HER car to a spot where i normally take my 4x4, i made her walk 4km's along a beach with some rock climbing as well, all with the required tackle and bait-box!! My thinking was that if i can make it difficult enough, she'd not want to go rock and surf fishing soon again...............BIG MISTAKE!!! She now LOVES it more than ever.....

Once back home, we managed some tuna trips, but nothing spectacular to report. The usual, run of the mill, 40-70kg class tuna (90-160lb's), are still around in fairly good numbers. (check out the FABULOUS FLAT sea!!)It should start to quiten down in the next 2-4weeks, as we come towards the end of the season.

Regards
miles