Epic 3 spearo sessions in the water
Day 1 - Saturday 6am in the water, within 15 minutes had seen the 2nd biggest bass i'd ever seen in the water, I think about 7lb+ at least, I was swimming forward as stealthly as I could, when out the slight bad viz came a huge head, I stopped and waiting expecting the fish to continue my direction and it did, at an unexpected moment it very quickly turned and I took a hopeful shot, which went nowhere, probably slightly out of range for the Rob Allen, continued the trip, saw a couple of other bass which were smaller which I managed to miss, plenty of big mullet around but nothing I was in a good position to take a shot at, on my way back cold and gutted i'd missed the biggy, thinking i'd be empty handed walking back, pretty much swimming along in a few feet of water when I looked right and saw a big grey tail, waited to see what it was an saw the thick lips of a mullet, still had its back to me and only slight turn for a shot, hit it straight through the end of the body before the tail, anyhows a 4lb mullet on the stringer.
Day2 - 5.30am start, in the water and within 10 minutes another large bass head, perhaps a 5lb fish this time, thought I was in range and again just fell short....doh!!, continued and missed another fish around a few pound and close distance, by this stage was feeling one of those days that my shot was going to be rubbish - found another bass resting inbetween some jap weed, again missed..... Continued looking, eventually found a nice tail resting behind some weed, lined up for a shot through the lace and bingo....nice 3lb 9oz fish, had a full stomach of 9 crabs inside him.
Day 3 - Monday night, body told me no, head told me go on.... same spot as the last couple of days, this spot is producing so no point changing it, within a few minutes of being in the water, nice bass seen but on my side, also a big mullet, by the time I turned it was gone, another few bass seen but out of range, found some big spiders in the deeper water but females, shame as they were pretty big, by this stage it was low tide and sun was on its way down, decided it was time to head back, took a short cut through some thick bootlace, as I came out a bass straight in front of me, lined up for the shot, it was just starting to swim and boom caught right at the top of its body, full of running it wrapped itself up in bootlace, had to dive down, grab the fish and with it a load of bootlace, made me look like I was some kind of spearfishing guerrilla bootlace madman, anyhow at that with my line all twisted up with my float line, I bundled the mess up on my float and kicked off back to shore for the 20 minute swim. 3.6lb fish for the freezer....a really good 3 days, body now dive knackered so a bit of rest before the weekends really low tides.
Best thing about the 3 days is the amount of bass seen, and mullet, I was loading my gun a couple of times and watched decent bass go past me - chest is bruised from loading the gun so much....not complaining though
Day 1 - Saturday 6am in the water, within 15 minutes had seen the 2nd biggest bass i'd ever seen in the water, I think about 7lb+ at least, I was swimming forward as stealthly as I could, when out the slight bad viz came a huge head, I stopped and waiting expecting the fish to continue my direction and it did, at an unexpected moment it very quickly turned and I took a hopeful shot, which went nowhere, probably slightly out of range for the Rob Allen, continued the trip, saw a couple of other bass which were smaller which I managed to miss, plenty of big mullet around but nothing I was in a good position to take a shot at, on my way back cold and gutted i'd missed the biggy, thinking i'd be empty handed walking back, pretty much swimming along in a few feet of water when I looked right and saw a big grey tail, waited to see what it was an saw the thick lips of a mullet, still had its back to me and only slight turn for a shot, hit it straight through the end of the body before the tail, anyhows a 4lb mullet on the stringer.
Day 3 - Monday night, body told me no, head told me go on.... same spot as the last couple of days, this spot is producing so no point changing it, within a few minutes of being in the water, nice bass seen but on my side, also a big mullet, by the time I turned it was gone, another few bass seen but out of range, found some big spiders in the deeper water but females, shame as they were pretty big, by this stage it was low tide and sun was on its way down, decided it was time to head back, took a short cut through some thick bootlace, as I came out a bass straight in front of me, lined up for the shot, it was just starting to swim and boom caught right at the top of its body, full of running it wrapped itself up in bootlace, had to dive down, grab the fish and with it a load of bootlace, made me look like I was some kind of spearfishing guerrilla bootlace madman, anyhow at that with my line all twisted up with my float line, I bundled the mess up on my float and kicked off back to shore for the 20 minute swim. 3.6lb fish for the freezer....a really good 3 days, body now dive knackered so a bit of rest before the weekends really low tides.
Best thing about the 3 days is the amount of bass seen, and mullet, I was loading my gun a couple of times and watched decent bass go past me - chest is bruised from loading the gun so much....not complaining though
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