Big Fish at Crashboat

I speared this African Pompano last Wednesday. It put up a good fight. When I shot it I let go of my speargun and watched it zoom away. At the surface I watched the float line whip past me and I wondered when it would stop. The line was taken all the way out and I grabbed the float. I was being pulled out to sea by this fish. It stopped and I started swimming back in. I made a little progress then it started pulling me back out. It stopped and I was able to swim back to the pilings. I pulled in the float line and grabbed the fish with all my might. I put the stringer in and cleaned the fish then took a good rest before continuing my spearfishing. If I didn't have float line and float I would have lost the fish and gun for sure. I never would have been able to pull the fish to the surface on one breath of air. The fish tasted great!

Yesterday's Spearfishing

Yesterday I went spearfishing with a new friend Pucho (thanks Pucho). I am still learning the ropes so I didn't get too many fish. We spent about 4 hours in the water, swimming and swimming. I am not usually the one to get tired but yesterday I got tired. It was a lot of fun but not easy to get fish. At this rate I burned more calories than were in the small fish I got. These fish are fast! I took probably 20 shots and only hit the one. In Washington St spearfishing was much easier. Its much harder here but its more fun. We bought about 10 pounds of fish from Sam's Club today. Hopefully it will be the last time we have to buy fish. Today the weed trimmer broke and we took it back to Sears. Its going to be around 3 weeks to be fixed. Maybe I'll use that time to go spearfishing but now I have to find a good trimmer. Sears and Home depot don't have ones that are good enough. I don't know were to find one.