Weekend

Was hoping to get out to hunt some tuna this weekend. Every thing seems to be against. Strong wind and big swell is on the menu for the weekend.

Spierre Free Diving Fins

I tore my calf muscle on my left leg about 5 weeks before the photo was taken. I would never be able to dive with plastic fins in such a short space of time. I still had my muscle strapped up but I felt no discomfort at all. You will see in the photo how the energy is placed at the fin. I was diving for 5 hours that day. The dock said that it will take up to 10 weeks before I can dive. Thanks to the Spierre fins I was diving up to 20m in 5 weeks.

The kill shot.

This is a photo as I pulled the triger and the spear hit home.

End of April in PE.

This time of the year we get the big White Steenbras along our coast line. I got a nice one of 13,64kg on video. It happens so fast. As the 1st big one came steaming in a second one made its appearance and my 1200 Rob Allen Spear gun did the job. The spear went right through its head and I knew that it wont pull out. All I had to do was to keep it of the rocks.

Leerie time in PE

This time of the year the Leerie starts to shoal around river mouths and harbours. The drop at the PE harbour is one of my spots where I get a few each year. After a fresh west and the swell in the by has dropped, you will find them early in the mornings. Have a look out for the raps and live bait from the fishermen.

Cold water diving.

The past two months we had East after East with not much diving. We had a bit of a West and back to East. We I just had to jump in. Myself and Llewellyn jumped in but our marks were off. The first thing I do is to check the anckor. There were thousands of Root Oog in the water. As I settled next to the anchor I saw the stump in front of me but it was out of reach and my gun was pointing to the side. The fish turned away from me giving me time to change gun direction. The fish turned back to me coming in a bit closer but still to far to hit. The fish turned away form me a second time and with my free hand I puled myself hard closer to the fish. As the fish started to turn around my spear went in behind the pectorial fin exiting on the side of the head. The Stump is a flat fish and it has a large blind spot from the back. I used this to gain distance closer to the fish. Its not a big fish, only 3,2kg but but a nice fish if there is no other fish due to the 14 degree water.

Old Port Elizabet slipway.

Water conditions from the side can change with the change of the tide. In the morning there were about 2m visibility and later it was up to 10m.