I am currently in Egypt, doing a scuba course and thought to have a great time spearfishing here........
First of all, I have picked up the spearfishing, In the med, and have found it very difficult, it took me quiet some time to make my first decent catch...but am totally addicted now
The question, the ethical one...the one that all of us sometimes have to answer to: (on family parties etc)....."how can you do that?, with a gun, kill the fish with a knife"......people upset etc...
For myself I have found the answer, I will not bother you to much, but the difficulty of the hunting, the "real hunting" and selectivity, satifies me if I ask myself why I am doing this.
Now!! This has changed considerably; Spearfishing here in the red sea is prohibited but I can tell you all one thing!; pictures from spearfishers that live around the place I dive now will not impress me anymore!!!...I never thought that it would be possible to see so much "quality" fish around me!!!
Although I hope to go spearfishing here, with a DB member from Egypt, :wave , I am not sure how I will feel about this!!
I have seen and read about this before: spearfishing in the med is a lot more difficult!!....I think spearfishing here would make me question myself again...
How do people hunt in seas like this? , seas where you see decent grouper at a couple of meters, or a tuna fish that comes to you, near a reef and amost bumps into you, barracudas over 1,5 meter swimming towards you..( I was doing an espetto without a gun...)
Ps...today I saw somebody scuba spearfishing...pathetic!!!
First of all, I have picked up the spearfishing, In the med, and have found it very difficult, it took me quiet some time to make my first decent catch...but am totally addicted now
The question, the ethical one...the one that all of us sometimes have to answer to: (on family parties etc)....."how can you do that?, with a gun, kill the fish with a knife"......people upset etc...
For myself I have found the answer, I will not bother you to much, but the difficulty of the hunting, the "real hunting" and selectivity, satifies me if I ask myself why I am doing this.
Now!! This has changed considerably; Spearfishing here in the red sea is prohibited but I can tell you all one thing!; pictures from spearfishers that live around the place I dive now will not impress me anymore!!!...I never thought that it would be possible to see so much "quality" fish around me!!!
Although I hope to go spearfishing here, with a DB member from Egypt, :wave , I am not sure how I will feel about this!!
I have seen and read about this before: spearfishing in the med is a lot more difficult!!....I think spearfishing here would make me question myself again...
How do people hunt in seas like this? , seas where you see decent grouper at a couple of meters, or a tuna fish that comes to you, near a reef and amost bumps into you, barracudas over 1,5 meter swimming towards you..( I was doing an espetto without a gun...)
Ps...today I saw somebody scuba spearfishing...pathetic!!!