Spearfishing Trip
Its not very often this time of year that the weather forecast leads you to believe that the the only waves that will be made on the water is if you drop something overboard. Its even less of a chance that you get to spend a day on the water with your bridal party of 2001. Well as fate would have it the weather actually did what it was forecast to do and all of us managed to get the day of at the same time (miracle!) Got out early and jumped in the water on a few bombies that I had marked that had previously held good fish. The going was a bit slow to say the least and by 10:00am we had only landed 6 trout. The decision was made to try the other end of the reef were the current was coming from and as it turned out this was a good call. Found some patchy looking country that didn’t look that good but each little patch held a nice trout or 2. Finally I found a patch that looked promising and I was trying to encourage Richie to shoot something to stir up a bit of action. Rich was having trouble with his snorkel and was having trouble getting down to the depth. Finally I spotted a nice trout which I dived down on and shot quite easily. Then the troops arrived and trout started showing up in good numbers. I shot a few more as Tony had got a few in front of me and casually said to him while he was in the boat “You better get in here there is a few fish around” We speared about another 4 or 5 each from that patch as well as a Tuskie and all were of good size. The last fish I got was the best of the day after Tony said to me “Did you see that big Blue Spot Trout before in that hole” I hadn’t but went down for another look and guess what showed up to greet me? Rich’s first spearfishing trip saw him land a nice trout while all the action was going on and I think he now might have the bug.
