I travelled to a river about 100 km northwest of my place on Saturday only to find water murky after a night of rain. I still went in with a pal of mine. The visibility was about 50-50 cm, and up to 80-1 meter if you look from bottom up. The first sunken tree I came across explode with clouds of mud as I crawled to it. The fish clearly saw/sensed me before I did. Nevertheless after about 40 minutes of exploring it I did stumble into what looked like a decent fish and shot from a close range. The range turned out to be too close - the spear didn't gain enough speed to pierce the fish and it fled. I found another one, or say there was some reflection from the peripheral part of the light produced by my flashlight at about 4 meters in that tree and shot from a longer range. When I got it out - it turned out to be kilo and a half chub, one of the biggest I ever speared. I then tried to find his/her mate as the big ones usually hang out in pairs, but could not - too much mud went up when I was retrievieng the trophy. So I swam downstream to this spot where chubs usually hang out. It is near the middle of the current - a tree sunken at about 5 meters - across half of the river and to the shore where there are also bushes hanging over the water. The trick is crawl along the bottom into the tree and then go up a bit and that's where they hang out. No luck though. I found a similar tree further down the river and in spite of poor visibility got another chub there, some roach fish and a bream. The chub and roachfish were hiding under a sunken woodcase right under the tree while the bream was staying in kelp and sort of bumped into it while crawling to that case - got lucky - the breams are very cautious and flee instantly. Unfortunately, I lost the bream and roachfish - probably as I was trying to get out in a rather thick bush and than had to scale a fence to get back to the road where the car was parked. I went back, but could not find it. See pics here.
moscowhack - Стреляем *ыбу В Мутной Воде