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Hiya

Yellowtail is the premier inshore game fish of the Cape diver. What normally happens is that a newbie spearo starts out hunting the reefs and sooner or later he gets invited to go shoot yellowtail. After shooting his fist 'tail, he'll be addicted to yellowtail hunting!!!

Realistically, they're the largest inshore specie that a spearo can regularly and effective target. Couple with the strong fighting ability and great tasting flesh, makes them a sought after quarry.

Here are some of the spots that we hunt them at and some techniques that we employ. Needless to say, every spearo has his own way of doing things, so these are simply MY OPNIONS!!

Gear: since our water is normally dirty, with viz. ranging from 3-10m, depending on the area, we tend to favour guns of 110-120cm's. My yellowtail gun is a 115cm Rabitech Carbon Apex with a 7mm ss spear and a Omer Pelagic reel. The reason we use reel guns is so that it allows 4divers to quickly jump off the boat as well as making for faster moving from spot to spot. No floatlines to tangle and no floatlines to incapacitate the boats motors!! I've lost count of how many times i've seen floatlines wrapped around the boats props!! One of the greatest dangers when diving with a reelgun is that the boat can VERY easily lose a spearo. At some places, the 'tail are found in great numbers in a 25knt wind coupled with a big swell. Looking for a lost diver with-out a float is almost impossible in such conditions!!