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Big catch, Freediving, Spearfishing
shooting a shark with the tbargun or barrebalete or tbar speargun
So the tbargun or tbar speargun has a dedicated French name now, it’s the barrebalète! It was chosen by the member of the chassesousmarine.com forum. In this video, you see a weighted down verson of the tbargun. I put one kilogram of led in the stock. It makes is perfectly neutral and helps reduce the [...]
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Freediving, social media, Spearfishing, TV show, Videos
Off the Hook Extreme Catches aired last Sunday
Off the Hook Extreme Catches, the episode where I bring Eric Young spearfishing under the ice aired on Sunday at 8pm eastern time on Animal Planet! http://www.animalplanet.ca/showpage.aspx?sid=50448 The show is on the Animal Planet website if you are in the US. Outside you may have to download it from a torrent, look for “off the [...]
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Big catch, Freediving, social media, Spearfishing, Videos
Production of an Episode of Off the Hook, Extreme Catches with Eric Young and me.
Last year I spent a four days on Block Island with Professional Wrestler Eric Young. My challenge was to prepare him to spearfish at the Race. Obviously, the Race is not a place where you take new freedivers. Actually, no one should dive there given the speed of the current, the darkness of the water, the dept, [...]
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Freediving, Spearfishing, Videos
Fun with TBAR speargun prototype
Here is the Tbar speargun prototype test video. This speargun was built for entertainment value alone. I do believe this sort of off the wall design helps me rethink my spearguns. Spearfishing with this prototype is quite feasible though. I don’t thing spearfishermen would hesitate one second to bring this thing spearfishing. The prototype was [...]
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Freediving, Spearfishing, Videos
Winter spearfishing, kill shot with mittens
After shooting a winter spearfishing episode of Off the Hook, Extreme Catches with Eric Young (you can find it on torrents, it’s season two) we continued fishing in the icy waters of the St-Laurent. JJ and me had our big mittens and all the winter neoprene trimming required. I got so used to shooting with [...]
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Mahi Mahi taken while sailing the Gulf Stream
Not spearfishing but who cares? You can see more of that stuff on miami2montreal.com Most of the sailing stuff entertwines with the freediving.
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Freediving, Spearfishing, Travel, Videos
Bimini, hawaiian sling spearfishing compilations.
Last October, I bought a 27 foot sailboat and I eventually sailed to the Bahamas. I stayed in Bimini most of the time since the good fishing is on the west side of the island string and the wind is invariably from the east… Anyway, it’s a really good setup for spearfishing. As you may know, in [...]
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Freediving, Spearfishing, Tips, Training
Training for spearfishing.
Some people keep asking about my training advise. I had written something a while back. It’s still pretty much what I would suggest today. Here it goes: Reaching for the bottom on one’s breath is an enjoyable exercise of defiance in a society that values more security and comfort than living. It also defies the [...]
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Big catch, Spearfishing, Travel
Block Island with Shimy, Chris and Jimmy
Shimy and I left Montreal on Monday afternoon. It was the first time Shimy took the 8 hour trip to Rhode Island. We were going for three days of bass fishing on Block Island. Chris had offered us to sleep on his boat and I had been able to secure ferry reservations for my car. [...]
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Photography, Spearfishing, Videos
Feeding bluegills
More and more often, the St-Lawrence Seaway becomes so warm that it is possible to dive without a wetsuit. It seems each new year we beat the previous’ year heat records. Here I am feeding tooty bluegills in my speedo.
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