Trip update. Exmouth area. shore diving viz 1-20m+. windy, swell, sharks fun times.
Ningaloo reef area there are only a hand full of places you can take a speargun. After a bit of "talking to the locals" i got the low down on a couple of HOT spots and when the wind died down it was on.. Met up with a brazilian bloke who had been spearing for about 6months loving every bit of it. Leo and his miss were hitch-hiking around the west and made exmouth home for the last 6 months.
Dive one.The big pelajic fish were amazing. In the first 5 mins 50m off shore schooled by a small school of tuna. Didnt have a chance!
.Every 10-15 mins a school of large maccys would come in close for a look but with good viz it was hard to make an approach. (tips please?)
Stuff this! swim in get the flashers and straight away i got this small school macy. Not a spanish but 'ok' on the plate.
Second day of diving at spot x was hit and miss. Again in the first 5 mins (5m of water) i put a spear into a 10-15kLong Fin Tuna that towed me around for a minute and tore off. I was gutted!
My brazilian friend saw the hole thing and when i had finished swearing at nothing but the open ocean he could not shut up "I can not believe my eyes what i see" "wow, fucking tuna, wow man".... after trying burly and flashers for somthing to come back nothing was doing so we swum back to shore and i shot this queen fish. gave the flesh to leo and his friend and kept a little for bait..
i will let the pics tell the rest.
enjoy oZ.