Few days later....... i call Tommy.......mmmm....his phone is off....which means he's at sea. Call again and his phone rings........"Hello....where are you??.....WHERE???......jeez!!!....i'll be there now!!!"
Packed the car and drove 650km's to get to them!!
Water was 19degrees on the surface, with a thermocline at about 4-5m, which meant we had to hunt in the warmer shallower waters. Viz. was a horrible 3m vertical, but 6-8m once you got below 5m. Plan of action was to target the white musselcrackers in the shallow white water.
Jumped in, swam to the breaking pinnacle. Almost on the pinnacle, in 3m water depth, a school of large yellowtail come belting pass. I get a long shot on a fish swimming away from me and then all hell breaks loose!! Try keeping a large yellowtail off the reef in 3m of water!!
Grabbed the spearline and wrapped it around my glove. TRIED swimmimg the fish off the reef, but he managed to pull me under-water!!
Thankfully i had carbon fins on and managed to bully him off the reef and into slightly deeper water. Got my hands in his gills and despatched him. GREAT!! Not even in the water for 5 minutes and i've already got a nice fish.
Spent the next few hours looking for quality fish. Every dive you would see a spearable fish of 3kg's+, but we were specifically looking for large 'cracker and red steenbras. One of the nicest dives was when there was 3 red stump's, a poenskop, 2 red steenbras and a large 'cracker on the same reef!! Not even mentioning the roman and galgoen and parrots and BIG bronze breams all milling around the same pinnacle.........
Final Tally of the largest fish were:
Yellowtail - 18kg's, 15kg's and 12kg's
White Musselcracker - 13kg's and 8kg's
Red Steenbras - 14kg's
Poenskop - 5kg's and 6kg's
Not bad for 4hours spearing.....
Re: Chronicles of a Blue Water Hunter 
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