Chronicles of a Blue Water Hunter - Page 15

Rolando · #**211** February 18th, 2005

You guys have some stones. Be safe, I would have a hard time following this crazy passion of ours if I reside in your neck of the woods, err sea

Amphibious · #**212** February 18th, 2005

As Always, a great story Miles!!!!

Memo · #**213** February 18th, 2005

gerat sotry miles!

shaneshac · #**214** February 18th, 2005

Miles you are NUTS

Dude, seriously, i wanna dive there too HAHAHA

x-frog · #**215** February 18th, 2005

If I were you, start looking for a new hobby reight now.....like collecting stamps or something safer.
Be carefull we need more Tuna's picks.

JMD · #**216** February 18th, 2005

I'm surprised your not overweighted with the huge steel cajones you must have! Good story, you guys are crazy, I can't believe you went back!

Oldsarge · #**217** February 20th, 2005

Somehow I don't think that Mother Matera raised her little boy to be fishbait. If I saw anything like that out here, (and we do have 'em, believe me) I'd pack it in for at least a day . . . maybe a week! Like Shane said . . .

miles · #**218** March 5th, 2005

Hiya

Just returned from a 5 day holiday. Since the spearing was quite good in the Struisbaai area, myself and my wife deicided to take a short holiday. Amongst the GREAT spearing, we did manage to get some sight-seeing in as well!! Was actually fun just to act like tourists, chatting to EVERYBODY on the harbour about fish and fishing and sharks!!!

I unfortunately only went spearing on one of the days, which was when my dive buddies came down from Cape Town. Struisbaai is really NOT a place to dive on your own. We shot some nice Yellowtail and a couple of bank fish and was also greeted by a young 3m great white. Fortunately, nobody was injured and thankfully the shark was also left unharmed!! There were some anxious moments, with everybody scrambling to get on board!! Luckily for us, we only saw the one, so diving was resumed a couple of kilomteres away.

The picture with the GW approaching the boat was taken whilst divers were trying to get to the boat from the other side. The loaded speargun with powerhead was just a safety precaution, should things turn nasty.

Some pic's....

Regards
miles

miles · #**219** March 5th, 2005

more pic's...

Alison · #**220** March 5th, 2005

Cool pics as always

Huan · #**221** March 5th, 2005

Are the pink fish Steenbraas?

miles · #**222** March 5th, 2005

Hiya

Huan, those pinkish reddish fish with white streaks are Red Stumpnose. PRIZED eating fish!!! Very highly rated table fare. Pretty easy to shoot though. They are suprisingly well comoflauged. All you see is a white dot approaching you. Thats the white fore-head, because the fish swims straight at you. When its with-in range, they generally turn broad-side, so as to get a better look at you!!!! Then you go........thwack!!

The nicest part about them is that they some-times seemingly appear out of no-where. One moment there's no fish, the next there is a couple of 2-5kg fish right in front of your gun!!!

You get different types of Steenbras. Red Steenbras is a reddish coloured fish. HIGHLY aggresive, has canine like teeth and is VERY territorial. Once again, they are easy to shoot, as they generally will approach a diver with-out fear. They have been known to attack divers as well. Story goes that the survivors of the wreck the BIRKENHEAD was attacked and eated by Red Steenbras. They grow up to about 80kgs and prefer deep rocky waters. When the cold thermoclines set in, they search the warmer shallower pinnacles where the spearo's can then shoot them. A bit of trivia, the scientific name is Petrus rupestris. Supposed named after Peter, which supposed gave THIS fish to Jesus, so that he could multiply them and feed the masses.

White Steenbras on the other hand is found in the surf zone, normally foraging the sand for worms , prawns and crabs. They are a silver fish with black vertical bars on the side. Scientific name: Lithognathus lithognathus and they grow to about 25kg's.

Hope that helps!!

Regards
miles

Murat · #**223** March 5th, 2005

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Originally Posted by miles

Hiya

They are a silver fish with black vertical bars on the side. Scientific name: Lithognathus lithognathus and they grow to about 25kg's.

miles

Looks very simillar to our sargo. Unfortunatelly they don't grow up to 25kg. I belive max is for sarga is about 2.5kg but in here good size is 500gr. Hovewer i shoot two 1-1.5 kg range this week and previous week. They are very good to eat.

Murat · #**224** March 5th, 2005

By the way Miles what are you doing with all that fish? Are you eat them? Don't fry them all unless you want to be like "wheel". Fish is very very good protein source so if you can arrange good "fish diet" for yourself, with little exercise you will have glorious six pack ABs to make jealous some folk in here

Alison · #**225** March 5th, 2005

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Originally Posted by Murat

By the way Miles what are you doing with all that fish? Are you eat them? Don't fry them all unless you want to be like "wheel". Fish is very very good protein source so if you can arrange good "fish diet" for yourself, with little exercise you will have glorious six pack ABs to make jealous some folk in here

Come on wide load! Stop frying those fish

DeeperBlue