Florida Championships Dates

[blueh2oboy]

Any one know the dates for the Florida State Championships this coming year? I can't find them anywhere and want to see if i am even going to be around for it. Any info or website on it would be good. thanks
Cameron

[Rolo]

Not sure if this will help or is what you are looking for;

http://www.fsda-wcc.com/Free_Diving.htm

[Screen Name]

Cam- We are meeting tomorrow to set the dates for the Florida State Freedive Championship, probably mid-April. I'll post the dates as soon as I know them.

The FSDA Southern Open State Championship which also has scuba, like the last tourney you were in with us, is July 9,10, & 11.

Hope you can make both of them, as well as the Spearboard Open and the St Pete Open.

Thanks for helping out RV. :)

[RabiSpear]

Cam,
You best be there. I am selling my bike this year to pay for Hatteras and the other tourneys. Robbie sent me the International Freediver Magazine. Good article...about yourself. Seriously, it was good. Thanks for the props. Was that the best picture you could find?

[Rolo]

Originally posted by RabiDeath
Cam,
You best be there. I am selling my bike this year to pay for Hatteras and the other tourneys. Robbie sent me the International Freediver Magazine. Good article...about yourself. Seriously, it was good. Thanks for the props. Was that the best picture you could find?

Blake,

I also read the article, good read! It specified that you took down a cobia with a Rabitech 110. Did you use the same size gun for the other fish (AJ, AP, etc...). Just curious, because I use the same size gun, but a RA.

Do you also know what gun Roberto Reyes uses/used?

[RabiSpear]

Rolando,
You better be there this year as well. You won't find a more exciting tournament. It is very even in terms of sites- everyone hits the same wrecks, so everyone has a chance. Every person in the tourney shot at least one fish over 30 lbs. We had a buddy come along who had never spearfished before and he shot quite few nice fish. It is an exciting and beautiful place. Shooting fish with sharks all around is a trip, but they never bothered us. I would lie on top of the wreck and they would swim up from behind and scare the poop out of me. As to Roberto's guns, I think he used OMER and Wong. Cam may remember better.

[Rolo]

Blake,

I have very limited experience with deep-water hunting, I've mostly stuck around the reefs. So did you nail the AP and AJ with a 110?

I'm going to start putting together a set-up for this type of fishing and I'd like to do it with a Euro-type gun. I've seen extremely large pelagics taken down with either of the South African guns. And I am very reluctant to purchase a gun that will cost the equivalent of my monthly mortgage:D

Hence, the Wongs are on the back-burner for the time being.

[RabiSpear]

Yeah,
As long as you have it rigged, you can shoot any fish in the sea with a 110 railgun. That is a fact. Most of the people you see using expensive custom guns really don't know their ass from their elbows when it comes to shooting BW fish, and I think a gun like that can help them out. If you have a clue about shooting fish, especially in BW, I think you could do well with any gun that is rigged well with a good buoy system. I want a Wong as much as the next guy, but it isn't like I missing huge fish b/c I don't have one. I think they are nice dock ornaments, but you will do just as well with a good railgun and some balls. As to experience for Hatteras, our buddy didn't have clue and he still shot fish.

PS- Don't mean to piss anyone off with the honest assessment. I do want a Wong!

[Rolo]

Ditto what you said, I love my Railgun. Check your PM, I sent you an article I think you might enjoy.

[RabiSpear]

Thanks for the link. Cool story. Never seen a true Tiger. Never want to.

[RabiSpear]

BTW, wait a month or two for the APEX to come out in the states. It is thick-walled carbon and will really be the premiere railgun on the market. I would put a 140 cm gun like that against ANYTHING.

[blueh2oboy]

Blake never answered you. I shot a 60 lb AJ the week before the tourney with my RAbitech 130 and we shot all our fish in the tournament with them except our big AJ's because we wanted to rig with CAble for around those big ass sharks. We shoot everything with those Rail Guns. The wahoo, both cobia, all the AP's, a 30lb Permit the day before the tourney and scores of other fish. I shoot almost all of my bluewater fish with the Rabitech 130. I blasted away one day this past year and got 13 wahoo, 20 dolphin and 3 yellowfins in two days with it. (blake put a pic of it in spearfishing photos under RABITECH PROOF) This year i am hoping to land a MArlin in Australia and a few giant Dogtooth Tuna with the NEx APEX they are coming out with. What pics did they put in blake? I haven't seen it obviously since i am about 200 miles south of the Azores right now.

[RabiSpear]

Just you looking like a homo at the weigh-in with the grape-smuggling brazillians in the background. BTW, anyone, if you want to see badass freedivers, check out Brazil. This guy was telling about swimming inside a wreck with his flashlight looking for Pargos. We were like- Isn't that wreck in 140 feet? He's like- Yeah, why?

[Rolo]

Yep, them Brazilians are Tenacious divers...Paolo Pacheco is still one of the best in the world even at his age (50+). He was second in last years Worlds.