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Interview with Jay Riffe

In this episode of THE SPEAR I interview Jay Riffe the President and Founder of Riffe International.

He shares the origin story of his company and some great stories from his spearfishing journey.

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Interview with Jonny Newell

In this episode of THE SPEAR a SpearoBlog show, I interview Jonny Newell.

He shares his spearfishing journey with us and talks about what it takes to find the elusive White Sea Bass

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CO2 Tolerance Table 1

In this episode of THE SPEAR a SpearoBlog show, I walk you through the first CO2 Tolerance Table. You asked how you could improve your breath hold. This is how.

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O2 Tolerance Table 1

In this episode of THE SPEAR a SpearoBlog show, I walk you through the first O2 Tolerance Table. You asked how you could improve your breath hold. This is how.

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Interview with Lora Aimswill

In this episode of THE SPEAR a SpearoBlog show, I interview Lora Aimswill.

She shares her freediving journey and her passion for the deep. This episode has great tips and a different perspective.

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Freediving Session Photos

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Lora’s Freediving Blog TranquilDeep.com

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THE SPEAR Fishing Podcast Ep 014 Transcript

Welcome to the spear, the spear fishing podcast where spearos share stories, insights and tips to help you and your spearfishing journey. Welcome to the tribe and now your host, Roman Castro from spearoblog.com

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RC: Today’s episode is brought to by me if you would like to hear less Ad or no ads there is something you can do. I started a Patreon campaign where listeners can pledge as little as $1 per episode to help me fund the show and take it to the next level. So, do me a favor and visit SpearoBlog.com/give you don’t have to pledge if you can’t at the moment but at least go check it out.

Today I interviewed a freediver, who doesn’t hunt and in fact she doesn’t eat meat. You might be thinking “but this is spearfishing show” and yeah it is, but I believe that in order to become a great spearo you must first become a great freediver. So, who better to interview than a freediver that practices freediving exclusively without any distractions of the spear or the hunt? But before we go to the interview here are the spear community announcements.

We have the Jack Prodanovich White Seabass open coming up May 29th through May 31st [email protected], we also have the Kirk McNulty White Seabass Classic it’s actually still going on now through May 30th the info for that is at hookbuzz.com. We have the OC Classic spearfishing tournament run by the OC Spearos and that is going on August 15th the info is at OCSpearos.org, click on the events tab and then finally we have the San Diego Freedivers which is my club, the club I belonged to. I am actually the president of the San Diego Freedivers this year and we’re having our 20th annual Blue Water Meet which is happening August 29th, you are all invited so come on down, it is a good event with lots of raffle prices. The info for that is at SanDiegoFreedivers.com. So yeah, if you run a spearfishing club and would like to make any announcements to the spear community, email me with your upcoming events my email is [email protected].

Quick announcement I am messing with the service that hosts my mp3 files and I accidentally unpublished episode 9 so if you try to listen to episode 9 last couple of weeks and it wasn’t working for you, it should be working now so thanks for letting me know Laura. Okay, so one last thing is do me a favor tell your friends about the spear if you think it would benefit them. You can just go to the link spearoblog.com/itunes and it will take you directly to itunes and they can check it out. Alright, let’s get on with the show.

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RC: Joining us today we have a native San Diegan who never spend a day in the ocean past her waist until 2012 when she discovered freediving and realized this was the sport for her. She, has reached depths about 200ft, she is a SSI level 1, FII level 2 and AIDA 3 star certified freediver. She is here to share her stories and unique perspective on the sports of freediving and spearfishing...

Interview with Cary Humphries

In this episode of THE SPEAR a SpearoBlog show, I interview Cary Humphries.

He shares tons of stories from his long spearfishing journey that started back in 1980! Fun fact, I was born in 1980! There are some great insights and stories in this episode

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Enjoy.

 

Worlds of Wayne

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Interview with Forrest Galante

In this episode of THE SPEAR a SpearoBlog show, I interview Forrest Galante. I met Forrest through twitter and followed him for a while. He is known by most for being on Discovery Channel’s Naked and Afraid Season 2 but I know him as an awesome adventurer and spearo.

Forrest was such a fun interviewee. He brought great energy and gave some very thoughtful answers to my questions.

Thanks Forrest! You make this look easy. 

OK let’s dive into this episode and get a glimpse of Forrest’s Spearfishing Journey.

Enjoy.

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Forrest Galante’s Facebook

Worlds of Wayne

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Interview with Clark and Rhett McNulty

In this episode of THE SPEAR by SpearoBlog, I interview Clark and Rhett McNulty. Clark is the founder of Hookbuzz.com. We cover the story of how HookBuzz came about, talk epic spear fishing trips, and invite you to the 2nd Annual Kirk McNulty White Seabass Spearfishing Classic.

So let’s dive into this episode and learn about Clark, Rhett and HookBuzz.

Enjoy.

THE SPEAR Fishing Podcast Ep 011 Transcript

Roman (RC): Welcome to The Spear. The Spearfishing Podcast, where spearos share stories, insights and tips to help you on your spearfishing journey. Welcome to the tribe, and now, your host, Roman Castro from Spearoblog.com.

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On today’s episode, we have an interview with Clark McNulty, the founder of HookBuzz.com. We talk about how HookBuzz was started, the Clark McNulty White Sea Bass Classic, and some epic spearfishing trips.

Before we jump into the interview, I thought it would be cool to start with a SpearoBlog tribe announcement segment during this part of the show. So, basically, if you run a spearfishing or freediving club anywhere around the world and you want to let the community know what you’re up to, shoot me an email with your upcoming events. You can email me at roman[a]spearoblog.com and I will announce the latest things happening. Thank you. Alright, so let’s get on with the show. Enjoy.

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RC: Joining us today, we have Clark and Rhett McNulty. Clark is the man behind HookBuzz.com. Clark and Rhett are here to talk about their spearfishing journey, how HookBuzz was born, and their second annual White Sea Bass Spearfishing Classic in honor of their brother, Kirk McNulty. Guys, thanks for showing up and welcome to the show.

Clark (C): Thanks for having us.

Rhett (R): Appreciate it.

RC: Let’s get started right off the bat with talking about what HookBuzz is.

C: Sure, yeah, HookBuzz, I think mostly we’re probably known in the community for videos and content. But primarily HookBuzz was founded for being an online retailer; so, an online store that sells product, whether if you’re into fishing, diving, scuba diving or spearfishing –

RC: So it’s not just spearfishing stuff, it’s also like –

C: Marine products and fishing dive gear, yeah.

RC: Nice. Let’s talk a little bit about how you got started with HookBuzz.

C: Sure, so back in 2007 and 2008 I was working for a tech company and we were doing ecommerce online. It was all of this home, housewares, home and garden stuff. It just obviously wasn’t my passion. So, it wasn’t exactly the right niche market for me.

RC: Right.

C: When I left that business, actually I think Rhett had made the suggestion, hey you know how to build these things, it’s where your expertise lies, why don’t you look into it? So I did, and I think I started with 10 products. And right now I think we’re right around the 25,000 skew mark.

RC: Wow. Do you remember what those products were?

C: Oh yeah. It was anything I could put up at the time that would sell. I think the first 10 products were like, it was fishing gear, it was lures, some swim baits, and I think I had a reel on there. You know, nothing too extravagant.

RC: It’s a pretty big site now. How long has it been around?

Interview with Ryan and Dustin

On this very special episode 10 of THE SPEAR Spearfishing Podcast a SpearoBlog production, I interview Dustin and Ryan the founders of Gatku Polespears. We cover how and why Gatku was formed, hit some highlights of each of their spearfishing journeys, talk spearfishing world records, and get some great insights and polespear spearfishing tips.

So let’s dive into the origin story of Gatku and get to know Ryan and Dustin.

Have a listen and enjoy.

Worlds of Wayne

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www.gatku.com

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Interview with Alan Santos and Greg Peterson

On this episode I interview two great spearos with different backgrounds and experience levels. We recorded this episode at James and Joseph Spearfishing among all the spearfishing gear a guy could want. 🙂

So let’s dive into their spearfishing journeys.

Have a listen and enjoy.

Worlds of Wayne

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Question of the Week

The question this week is Do you use a dive computer? If so, which one?

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