CMOST
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Scuba for me. Who wants to be on the surface!!!
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I use them exclusively when bottom fishing and STILL probably 1 in 4 come up gut hooked! So spearing is more eco-friendlyif he is gut hooked. I know that circle hooks are best to keep that from happening, but I hardly know any fisherman that really uses them.
In my area of Florida (upper Gulf Coast) there is no decent spearing in less than 80' of water. We free dive for pelagics on occasion but mostly scuba for bottom fish in water 100-150' when its me and my friends. Also, it worth knowing what everyone else in the world does and believes, but aren't the Med and Caribbean (freedive hunting only) both seriously overfished (collapsed is the word I am used to hearing)? By comparison the Gulf of Mexico seems to be doing fine (except of course the endangered red snapper) since fishing regs were originally put into place.