hunting story:p

[vali]

i don't know if i'm a begginer in hunting or not...i even don't know what make an underwater hunter to be a begginer or not....
but i post here just to be shure
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first i did snorkeling in 1974, and than...in one day i left the surface because the temptations was to big...at the beginning i dived up to 2 meters...quite hard at 6 years old because i was afraid of the "void" bellow me
later...after 2 or 3 years i was able tu buy my first pair of fins...everything changed from then...i mannaged to go deeper [4-5 meters]....along with the new depth...new challenges. I remeber that my special hobby was to collect crabs...
one day i was at 4 meter deep and i saw a realli big crabs and i wanted to grab him...in that instance, a little turbot run away just under my eyes...
i left the crab in his peace and i stood quite to observe the little turbot camouflaging in the sand....when i was used to that image, i went out of the water, a grab a little speargun [my father's one..hehe i was nearly 8 years old]...and...get back to the water...in that day i shoot my first fish...
when my father came back and saw me that i used his speargun, he gave me a little lecon of behaviour, but what can i say....i was to happy to let me turn blue
that was happened 30 years ago...
i catch a lot o fishes since that time....i don-t remember everyone of them, but that one is still in my eyes, like it was happened yesterday...
i discovered that underwater hunting means a v good knolledge about submarine life and a great respect for the pray....
and i have this rule when i shoot a fish.....if he manage to escape from the first hit...i let him go [even i know that i can shoot him twice]....because i guess that we must give them a chance

 

[azapa]

Hey Vali, Nice story, Its amazing that your speared your first fish when you were 8 years old. I have two sons, and the younger one wants to hunt with me really badly! He is only 4 1/2 though. I guess your water is warm and clear there with not too many waves?? Here it is cold and rough, I am always wondering how old my boys will have to be before I can take them out past the breakers??
Cheers!

 

[vali]

i guess the age of 14 will be more aprropriate for a kid to use a little not so powerfull gun
my waters are not so clear and not so warm
the black sea is a temepered sea
the good visibility is arround 7-8 meters but often is no more than 2-4 meters...
in the winter and spring is more clear...but 2 to 10 degrees Celsius

 

[vali]

sa povestesc shi eu o patzanie de la una din multele partide de vanatoare
eram in apa deja de cam doua ore shi jumate, luna aprilie, apa rece cam de 10 grade
deja adunasem cam 7-8 bucatzi de calcan care pe care le resimteam la revenirea la suprafata
asha...
am hotarat sa ies la mal...in drum spre mal vad un animal pe la 6 metrii....adancime
ash fi renuntzat la el dar se vedea de sus ca are peste 4 kg...
booon!
ma scufund cu shiragul de farfurii

dupa mine...ajung jos numai decat, il harponez...se zbate individul cat se zbate....reushesc sa trec contra dincolo de el, dar sunt constient de faptul ca e harponat nesigur shi ca se va elibera...
hotarasc sa ies la suprafata din lipsa de aer....cad...ce sa vezi....dupa 2 metri ma trage ceva in jos....aveam aer suficient, dar nu pentru ce avea sa urmeze
shiretul arbaletei se infacshurase in jurul unui coltz de stanca shi ma impiedica sa urc la suprafatza....
am incercat sa il descurc [tinand la piept shi animalu deloc de neglijat]
nu mi-a trebuit mult timp s imi dau seama ca nu pot descurca in timp util sfoara....
am lasat arma shi peshtele jos shi am urcat la suprafatza urmarind cu mare parere de rau cum calcanul...eliberat din arbaleta se departeaza de zona cu pricina....
ajung sus...imi iau aer...ma linishtesc.....incerc din rasputeri sa raman deasupra locului cu pricina [pentru ca apa nu era suficient de limpede cat sa vad arbaleta de sus]
la naiba...era shi hula pe mare....
ma scufund la nimereala.....incerc sa regasesc stanca...o regasesc....matur cu privirea o plaja de 4 metri in jurul ei....
norok mare...vad arbaleta desfacuta de stanca shi dusa la 3-4 metri de ea...
o iau shi revin la suprafatza, dupa care...pe tot drumul de intoarcere imi spun asha:
vali...nici o exagerare nu e buna...e destul peshte...e frig....ai obosit....nu face acte de bravada ca ai mai pierdut odata o arbaleta

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duap atat timp imi fac scenarii diverse.....daca aveam norok sa dau peste animalul ala la inceputul partidei de vanatoare?...cand eram odihnit...neinghetzat shi fara alt peshte pe shirag?
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primavara urmatoare aveam sa vanez un calcan de 5,700 kg.........

 

[vali]

untill tomorrow i will try to translate the post that a just posted above....
the story is interesting and i did'n manage to think her directly in english...
as sun as i will have a little time i will try to post it in english
thanks for understanding

 

[azapa]

OK Vali, thanks, I don't understand even one word as it is

 

[island_sands]

yo tampoco... Valiiiiii

 

[island_sands]

yo tampoco... Valiiiiii

 

[vali]

ok...the english version:

let me tell you a little adventure from one of my many hunter sessions:
i was in the water from about 2 hour and a half, it was aprill. the water between 8 and 10 degrees Celsius.
I allready gathered 7-8 pieces of turbot. all this fishes was hanged on a string tide by my lest belt...of course the repetitive dives was much hard to do because of those 7-8 turbot [especially the return at the surface]
so!
i decided to go out of the water at the shore...in my way back i saw a big turbot somwhere at 6 meters depth
i would have renounce at him, but it was clear for me that he had more than 4 kg....to let such a fish go was out of the question
goooooood!
i dive with the string of "dishes" after me:....arrived at 6 meters in no time...shoot the fish....
the big animall is strong....he fight quite well for 6-10 seconds and struglle to put himself out of the spear....i'm well-aware that he is not good speared
for safety, i decided to go at the surface to deal with him, but after ~2 meters something pull me down....
the gun cord was twisted upon a rock . i tried to untide the cord with the left hand...the gun and the fish pressed upon my chest with the right hand...the water was cold...i did'n had gloves
i realised than that i couldn't get the gun untied in safe time....
i let the gun and the fish down there and i get up to the surface, watching with great sorrow the turbot...he mannaged somehow to escape from the spear and with slow mouvement he left the battle camp...
i am at the surface....i take deep breath...i'm calm down...i try hard to remain above the place because the water was not so clear to see my spear-gun from the surface...
damn it!
i realised that the sea is not so calm and the waves and the currents could have mouved me and i was in danger to loose my sperargun
i dive random....try to relocate the rock...good god! the rock is there, but the gun is no more
i cover an area of about 6 square meters arround the rock....lucky me...the gun was somwhere at 4 meters from the rock dangling in the bottom currents...
i grab the gun, go out at the surface, swim all the way back to the shore and tell to myself: vali...exageration is not good...you have enough fish...it's cold...you're tired...don't brave...don't do usless heroic act because if you remember, you allready losed a gun some years before
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now a lot of scenneries cross my mind: what if i was lucky enough to saw that fish at the beginning of hunting sesion?...when i was not tired....not freeze and with no fish at all?
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next spring i was going to catch a 5,7 kg turbot
[see image bellow]

 

[vali]

i really get tired translating this one

 

[azapa]

thanks Vali, great story. It shows it's not worth being greedy: just take what you and your family can eat. Cheers.

 

[vali]

well
i must say that the turbot is to be found just in spring-time in our sea
to get to the sea i must drive about 400 km so as you can imagine, i do not go there very often....
i'm not a greedy man, is just that i go there only once a year, and hehehe my familly is big ennough]
althought, a lesson was learned by me from the above story