Awesome spearfishing trip to Inhaca island!

Hi all. I had a recent spearing trip to my favourite place. I managed to shoot 3 respectable fish, 1 a bit not so respectable. And 4 little ones for my friend to use as bait. The black one had no scales funnily. The parrotfish were delicious. The photos of the black fish and 1st parrot fish doesn't do its size justice, it was definetly a nice size fish. I was using a tomahawk 1000 rob allen railgun. Does anybody have a idea what fish the black one is?? Thanks guys. Cheers

The story behind the photo... My brother was trying his luck for the first time spearfishing. The vis was +- 4m. I shot the black one and the smaller parrot underneath his nose. Water was about 5m deep, it was perfect for me. The barracuda is a pickhandle. We eat them in this area. I doubt there's cig poisoning in this area. We've caught and eaten 2 of them before. My barracuda is still in the fridge( I got it one the morning we left) so can't wait to eat it.

When I got the barracuda, the current was screaming at about 6 kmph. Had to fin like mad to keep up. There was a rocky outcrop where I was diving, so I'd hold onto that while breathing up. Then I'd dive and try to hold my position underwater holding onto a rock. I took a shot at them but were out of range(i got a 1m gun).

When I was breathing up again, I dived. I then looked to my left and saw they were super close. Got off a shot at the nearest one and it was smack-bang centre! I couldn't beleive my luck. The rest hung around a bit deeper at a little drop off further from shore(big no-no with that current). Anyway, I was exstatic! My first ''real'' fish. I half nicked the spine so he was kinda parilyzed.

THat's the story behind the fish. Hope you enjoyed it. Cheers Sharkey. ( The parrots were kinda hard cus of their super hard scales, fourtunately i got them just behind the gillplate)

Yeah. They are. It was going out through ''Hell's Gate''(well named) the tide. I was a bit too late. WHen I got the black fish and first parrot it was transitioning. But it was worth the tiring swim. There are boats to hire but super expensive. We were supposed to take our boat but one of the motors weren't pumping water and was overheating so had to turn around(we went on thursday insted of tuesday).

Cheers.