A bad day..........
Hiya
Went spearing yesterday at Struisbaai again. Weather predicted a 2m swell and light wind. Good conditions. At the slip, i realise that i fogot my gloves at home. No problem as i always carry a spare set. As we're launching the rib i notice that the wheel bearing had colpased on the trailer
. No problem, we'll sort it out later!!!! Anyways, now i start the motors (both of which i started at home) The one refuses to start. So off comes the cover and we check for spark and fuel. Both is present, so we surmise that the motor is flooded. In the process though, i managed to break the screw on the carb's float bowl. A bit of quick thinking and some match sticks and the hole is temporarily plugged.
So now we get the motor started and off we go. Outside the 2m swell is evident. Jump in at the wreck and do our first drift. 5 drifts later my mate manages a 8kg yellowtail. Thats it. Nobody seen anything else. Nothing.Nada. Zip. Zilch. Four hours later, i still haven't seen a decent fish. Viz is now 2-3m at the bottom with a thermocline at about 13-14m. Finally i see a bankie (reef fish) of about 4kg's and decided to shoot it. Long shot, and the fish has already seen me and spooked. With the bad viz, i guess as to where the fish would be, and shoot, and miss. Now i swim up to the surface and lo and behold, a school of about 20 yellowtail, ranging from 8-15kg's circle me in a merry-go-round fashion. They swim up from 16m down right to the surface with me, all whilst i'm frantically trying to reload my gun:waterwork :waterwork Needless to say that once my gun was loaded, they departed.
We then decided to work the shallower wrecks for some bank fish. The ground swell had churned up the sand pretty badly, so viz was non-existant (2m at best). Dived very close to the wreck (too scared to dive in completely open water in that viz ). I called the boat to pick me up, only to see a swell curl and break over the boat!!!!! . Buggy boy is freaked out and we then decided to call it quits and run for the harbour.
Spent two hours fixing the wheel bearing. I always carry spare bearings but my mate decided to leave the tool box at home
Finally fixed, we start the two hour ride home. 10 minutes later, the 4x4 just dies on us. (my mates 4x4, mine was left at home). Once again we find spark and petrol. A hour later, we're back on the road. Couldn't find the fault, vehicle just started!!!
I should've stayed in bed........................
miles
Hiya
Went spearing yesterday at Struisbaai again. Weather predicted a 2m swell and light wind. Good conditions. At the slip, i realise that i fogot my gloves at home. No problem as i always carry a spare set. As we're launching the rib i notice that the wheel bearing had colpased on the trailer
. No problem, we'll sort it out later!!!! Anyways, now i start the motors (both of which i started at home) The one refuses to start. So off comes the cover and we check for spark and fuel. Both is present, so we surmise that the motor is flooded. In the process though, i managed to break the screw on the carb's float bowl. A bit of quick thinking and some match sticks and the hole is temporarily plugged.So now we get the motor started and off we go. Outside the 2m swell is evident. Jump in at the wreck and do our first drift. 5 drifts later my mate manages a 8kg yellowtail. Thats it. Nobody seen anything else. Nothing.Nada. Zip. Zilch. Four hours later, i still haven't seen a decent fish. Viz is now 2-3m at the bottom with a thermocline at about 13-14m. Finally i see a bankie (reef fish) of about 4kg's and decided to shoot it. Long shot, and the fish has already seen me and spooked. With the bad viz, i guess as to where the fish would be, and shoot, and miss. Now i swim up to the surface and lo and behold, a school of about 20 yellowtail, ranging from 8-15kg's circle me in a merry-go-round fashion. They swim up from 16m down right to the surface with me, all whilst i'm frantically trying to reload my gun:waterwork :waterwork Needless to say that once my gun was loaded, they departed.
We then decided to work the shallower wrecks for some bank fish. The ground swell had churned up the sand pretty badly, so viz was non-existant (2m at best). Dived very close to the wreck (too scared to dive in completely open water in that viz
). I called the boat to pick me up, only to see a swell curl and break over the boat!!!!! . Buggy boy is freaked out and we then decided to call it quits and run for the harbour.Spent two hours fixing the wheel bearing. I always carry spare bearings but my mate decided to leave the tool box at home
Finally fixed, we start the two hour ride home. 10 minutes later, the 4x4 just dies on us. (my mates 4x4, mine was left at home). Once again we find spark and petrol. A hour later, we're back on the road. Couldn't find the fault, vehicle just started!!!
I should've stayed in bed........................
miles
