Good story Anderson and Rig,
My new buddy and I shot a couple of those African Pompanos last week, but we thought they were horseye jacks. No wonder they tasted so good.
I meet my ultimate freediving buddy. Right here in my town, has 10 years of experience, is a certified lifeguard, done 150’ before, and is real safety conscious. He is every bit as into as me. Almost has me talked into breakaway system with a float. We went last week and this. We have already applied for a non-profit corporation, and purchased a web domain for our new freediving spearfishing club.
Anyone know of some tournaments left this year? There was going to one in Freeport, TX, but they are thinking of canceling it due to low turnout.
Yesterday, I went down and played tagged with a sheephead for about 1:30 when I finally got a good shoot. He went down and around two supports and I was at about 35’. If you remember, I use an inflatable float with a CO2 cartridge. I thought, I don’t have time to untangle this fish from the rig, so I pulled my cord, which is suppose to blow the float off (always has in the past) and then I was going to leave the gun and go to the surface. Nothing happened except a bunch of bubbles. I swam toward the surface and God much have been watching me, because that sheephead untied itself and came right up. Haven’t had time to look at the float yet, but I am sure not going again until I have figured out what happened and have it fixed.
Nice fish and red snappers. You know that the ones over 20lbs don’t taste as good, but they do make good pictures. I have yet to spear one. They are usually real deep, unless you can chum them up.
don