Newbie Spearhunter

[Padaxes]

Landed my first bass, went straight on the barbi and was delicious. Best bit of fish I`ve ever eaten

 

[blaiz]

congrats! nothing like landing a nice fish on your own homemade gear! Have you tried looking at pharmacies for surgical tubing? If all the heroin addics can find surgical tubing than maybe you gotta go to the streets:blackeye

 

[Padaxes]

LOL I tried the pharmacies (chemists as we call them in the UK) with no luck, I wonder where the junkies get it from :/ PLenty of them round here I`ll ask one lol

 

[Padaxes]

Well I decided to get a cheap speargun to see what it was like and my god is it easy compared to pole spearing! Landed 2 2lb and a 4lb bass so far so am eating well!

 

[spaghetti]

I think I`m going to make a simple hawaiian sling for sure. Atm im concentrating on making my float out of a boogie board.

I think I`m going to get the biggest wrasse I can find today and try out this recipe...

http://forums.deeperblue.net/recipes-cooking/74881-spaghetti-wrasse-sauce.html

Excellent!
The creamy or the tomato?

 

[Mr. X]

...Still cant get hold of surgical tubing though Anyone know where to order it in the UK ?

Portland Oceaneering used to sell it (or was that silicone tubing*). Try using something like[ame=http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=surgical+tubing&meta=]surgical tubing - Google Search[/ame]
I found these:

*Surgical Tubing Latex Surgical Tubing reefscuba.com (info)
Stage Cylinders & Acc - Surgical Tubing (small) (UK)

 

[Padaxes]

Excellent!
The creamy or the tomato?

You know everytime i see a nice big Wrasse I just dont have the heart to shoot it, so I havnt tried the recipe yet


With regards to the surgical tubing , I found the the first site before but it's in the usa so isnt much use and the 2nd one seems a little thin or is 5mm OD tubing sufficient for a pole spear ?

 

[Padaxes]

Turns out im even more of a newbie than i thought ive been catching Mullet and thinking they were Bass for the last week :/ Still a 3.5 lbs Mullet is ok isn't it ? I was thinking it wasn't tasting quite as nice though

Mullet have spines too dont they ? But the dorsal fin is a different shape to a Bass - like a fan with 4 spikes?

The other reason I assumed they were Bass because they were exhibiting the same behaviour as solitary Bass, ie, lurking motionless in the sea weed in shallow water. I thought Mullet were shoaling fish ?

 

[Mr. X]

Turns out im even more of a newbie than i thought ive been catching Mullet and thinking they were Bass for the last week :/ Still a 3.5 lbs Mullet is ok isn't it ? I was thinking it wasn't tasting quite as nice though

Mullet have spines too dont they ? But the dorsal fin is a different shape to a Bass - like a fan with 4 spikes?

The other reason I assumed they were Bass because they were exhibiting the same behaviour as solitary Bass, ie, lurking motionless in the sea weed in shallow water. I thought Mullet were shoaling fish ?

Mullet are long & thin (& sometimes broad) with a much smaller spikey fin on top:

Jersey Spearfishing Club

The way we cook them, the taste & texture is v. similar to bass, with slightly more fish taste. We've had both together for a meal several times, both cooked the same way and, when I blind taste test folk, about two thirds choose mullet (& sometimes everyone). Hugh Fernely Wittingstall had a similar result with his smoked mullet on River Cottage Gone fishing.

I've often seen shoals of small and medium mullet & once saw a shoal of big ones (a breath-taking sight and I got one of them as they swam behind and above me, almost unseen). More often though, I see them alone or in groups of two or three.