TS 003: Spearfishing Cortez Banks with Ryan Sweeney The Spear: Spearfishing | Freediving | Apnea | Fishing

The Spear – A Spearfishing Podcast where you can get your spearfishing fix when you are stuck on land

Original Format

We go with the original interview format I intended back when I released Episode 000.

THE SPEAR will be a Weekly Show

I’m going all in. I plan to put out an episode of THE SPEAR once a week. So from this day forth look for new episodes on THURSDAYS.

Interview with Ryan Sweeney Including Spearfishing Cortez Banks with Terry Maas

Ryan shares his spearfishing journey with us and gives some great advice for the new guys out there.



* How he got into spearfishing

* What roadblocks he hit and how he overcame them

* Launching your Kayak in the surf

* Dealing with Sea Sickness

* Key factors to becoming a better spearfisher

* Choosing the right Spearfishing gear

* Breaking in to the spearfishing community

* White Sea Bass Hunting Tips

* Talks about how he met Terry Maas their epic trip to go Spearfishing Cortez Banks last year

* Spearfishing Tuna

* Whistles

* Spearfishing Cortez Banks again on The Sand Dollar

* Hammerhead Shark encounter

* Flashers

* Spearfishing Tips for new guys

* Rocks, Rips, and Reefs 3Rs

* and more



You can contact Ryan via Facebook. Ryan is working on getting the new website up so for now here is a link to Ryan’s Facebook Profile.

Episode 003 Transcription

Hey this is Roman Castro from spearoblog.com and this is the spear episode 3 now check out my intro music.

This is the spear the podcast where you can get your spearfishing fixed even though you’re stuck on land, coming at you from our home studio and sunny San Diego California, thanks for listening and welcome to the tribe.

Alright, so today’s episode is an interview this is the original format I wanted when I first set up the spear. I have done now I think four interviews, this is the first of four I had a couple more scheduled and we come to do interviews and I really enjoyed them I think I’m learning a lot and been able to share this conversation with you guys is very valuable to you. Besides interviewing all this great people I’m really enjoying the process of learning how to interview somebody and just getting used to how my voice sounds like on my headset. It’s a big learning here so bare with me and I’ll try to improve every episode also I wanted to announce that I’m just gonna go for it and make the spear a weekly podcast so I’ll be playing new episode every Thursday going forward. Right now I’m thinking mostly of the interviews but I might throw in like an audio blog that goes here and there to spice things up.

RC: Hey guys today we have Ryan Sweeney he has 14 years of experience in motorsports industry. Ryan is an entrepreneur who is combining his passions for product design and adventure sport into his new endeavour called bricksadventure.com you can see it at brickadventure without an s. Ryan was also the president of San Diego freedivers for 2014 he served on the board since 2011. You might recognized Ryan from his other products he started pdp which is precision dive products and came out of one of the first backpack specifically designed for spearfishing which called the spearo backpack. Alright, Hello Ryan and welcome to the spear, how’s it going?

R: Thanks for having me it’s a pleasure to be here.

RC: Awesome, awesome so I wanna thank you for coming to the show and we go right into our first question and feel free to elaborate as much as you want where did...