A day of firsts and a bitter sweet ending
First local freedive yesterday with the new boat.
The Dhu went 56cm and was my deepest fish shot yet in 23.1metres. Proud of the dive, fish could have been bigger but at that depth I didnt have any reserves left in the tank. Shot him, and git muzzle wrap on my gun, luckily I got a kill shot, and skull dragged him to the surface for some sweet oxygen.
The Spanish was my first ever caught trolling (thanks to you guys for lure recomendationsm in my top 3 lures thread) - had seen mackies all morning (schools of sharkies and a few Spanish) that were staying out of range. Decide to move spots and try trolling and this mack hit the lure (halco 190) in under 1 minute of being in the water. A 3-4 minute fight followed and my first line caught Spanish came to the surface. I was stoked, this trolling business is too fun and easy! :D
Dive buddy shot the baldie near the bottom in around 20'ish metres also, a stonker!
Day ended on a bad note, dropped my favourite gun in around 30m of murkey water while burleying for some horse size snapper, never to be seen again :(
tim-o
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Thats a good sesh!
2 quality demersals and a metro mack, ken awesome mate
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Paul_86
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Good work mate! Upset a few
Good work mate! Upset a few people getting a metro mack within the 1st minute of ever trolling for them! Haha.
uncle
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gotta be happy with that
good doogs
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Subaquatic
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Healthy looking
Healthy looking Spaniard!
Nice
barracuda
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Impressive yet again
nice work as allways
quadfisher
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haha karma buddy
theres a big price to pay for that gift mackeral mate!
post back soon , when you just cant catch a bloody thing!
that dive was awsome, 23 metres, gee some people dont scuba dive that deep.
quadfisher
rocklobster
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ripper baldie!
ripper baldie!
Notorious
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Paid my ocean tax with that
Paid my ocean tax with that gun - spot has been marked so heading back with a mate who will scuba dive the bottom for me. Chances are its not there anymore but at 30m I'm hoping there isnt much swell current and wont hurt to have a look.
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