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Chronicles of a Blue Water Hunter

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Johan with his first YF!!
 

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Pic 1: The crew!!!

from left to right:
Johan, Deon, Dan, Nico and myself

Pic 2: Dr. Fish!!

Pic 3 : Catch of the day. Final tally, 13 Yf's ranging from 40-75kg's!!
 

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Coclusion: Mission Accomplished!!!!

With the help of shaneshac, i'll hopefully be able to post the movie clips soon!!!

Regards
miles
 
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NICE GOING MILES!!!

they vis looks great, what was it?

hope "shanesac" rofl posts the vids soon rofl
 
I am Mile's bitch.

OK Miles, here it is in writing- Print it and save in in the nightstand next to the tools- You ever need that boat of yours washed, waxed and detailed to the nines, I'm your guy. :king

And while I can't (won't) promise to equip it with a blonde, ala this month's Contest photo, :hmm I'll fuel it, drive it, feed it, hell I'll even sleep on it! I'm coming over! Absofrigginlutley incredible!! Massive smoothness points!!
 
Miles you should be appointed the Minister of TOurism for South Africa, I've never wanted to be in a place more than this Awesome pics cool catch
cheers
 
Miles:
fantastic pictures! Lucky guys to have such a nice fishing trip!!

Congratulations to you all.


Cheers,

Roberto

Ps: waiting for the movie!
 
Bugger just being Minister...

Indeed.

As bestower of Monikers here at DB, it pleases me greatly to induct you into a heady group of marked and labeled sorts, included Erik- the Guru of Group Hug, our own Bill, the Baron of Breathold, aquiles, aka the Migrant among others.

You are hereby to be known as: Titan of Tuna!

Congrats and add it to your titles at your signature.
 
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icarus pacific said:
You are hereby to be known as: Titan of Tuna!
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All hail the mighty Sir Miles, Tuna Titan of South Africa!!

Miles,

Your catches never cease to amaze and really make us jealous on the Aussie forums. Good stuff once again.

Catchya, Lachlan
 
Miles,

Once again thanks so much for everything . That was a trip of a lifetime. It was great to meet and dive with you. As my first blue water experience I don't think it could have been any better. It was a real privilege just to be on the boat, so thanks for taking me out to the tuna grounds and then taking the time to teach me the skills to land one of these absolutely beautiful fish.

I got back to the UK yesterday and have just been looking at the above photos and can't believe that I was there - lekker.

Happy fishing bru,
Dan Bridges
Glasgow
Scotland
 
25 January 2005

Since the tuna season ended at the end of December, i've been dying to get wet!! Hunting tuna is great fun, but so is shooting yellowtail in the off season. The one thing that i learnt on this trip was exactly HOW unfit i am!! This BWH stuff has made me lazy!!! Coupled with the fact that i haven't done ANY inshore diving since August 2005!! Enough excuses now.....:crutch :crutch

My manager came to work late, so i left work and went home, packed my stuff, made some food for the day and left to Tommy's place. (my wife's working night shift and already gave me loads of grief for going with-out her!!) At 3:15am i'm at his place and shortly afterwards the others arrive. By 4:00am we leave for Struisbaai. After a nice slow leisurely drive we get there just before 7:00am. Water looks stunning!! Kit up and we launch.

The first spot we go to is 19nm from the harbour. Pinnacle whose shallowest point is 26m. My first dive.........breathe-up....nice and relaxed.....duck-dive.........finning down........hey!! my lungs start screaming for air!! I surface, check my D3........6m deep!!! rofl Ok, a couple of dives later, i'm hitting 12m deep!! rofl This is ridiculous!! I simply can't go any deeper!!! To worsten matters, the fish are all well below the 20m mark.

One of the guys shoots a fish and pulls the school upwards. I dive.......aim......fire.........nooooooooo......shot too high...............fish peals off 30m of 3mm line on the reel and tears off!!:vangry :vangry A short while later a school of smaller fish come in and i manage to redeem myself. Spent the better part of the morning spearing here, but we had more freediving practice than spearing practice!!

We move inshore, hoping for better luck. Water is much dirtier, with 3-4m viz. Not fun with all those GWS that reside in Struisbaai. We move even closer inshore, diving on some shallow wrecks. I did two drifts over the one wreck, before my nerves gave in!! That was the same wreck i saw my last GWS on, and the viz of 3-4m wasn't insipring!! I buggy'd the boat, letting the others spear.

Piere took a nice 14kg Yellowtail Kingfish here and Tommy took a 15kg one.

Pretty dismal trip, but at least i got wet!! AND got to realise how unfit i am!! Need to get some pool training in before my next dive!!

Regards
miles
 

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Tommy's 15kg fish and Piere's 14kg Yellowtail.
 

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Miles, it is probably little consolation but your rubbish day spearing is much better than my best day rofl (in terms of fish caught, weather, water clarity, breath hold, depth, etc., etc)...and I still have a great time.
 
Damn Miles you new boat is the Sh!t. You continue to amaze me with the quality of fish you guys shoot.
 
Great start Miles! get in there, I know what you mean when you feel yu're out of shape, i generally go running about 3 days a week or so, even f i have no pool training it makes the comeback quite easy. I still cant get over the fact that you go to an area wher you have seen a GWS before, I guess some people are more comfortable than others, I mean I avoid areas where I have seen sharks period or know that they are popular with them let alone GWS.
Take care out there man, it's only fish at the end
 
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