Re: no fish !!! why? underwater fish university..here!!
I think you need to spend a lot of time doing observations and working on your technique to make ZERO noise or movement upon descent, all the while hiding your speargun to a certain extent - I use my left arm to camouflage my 90cm tube on descent. Are you finning upon descent? If so stop now and learn to make more use of your duck technique to get down deeper - some people can get down to 5M without finning, others 2M.
Aspetto for bream is tough going, especially with Royal sea bream (I had them just out of shooting distance last Summer and all were 2-3Kg+ in size in 3M+ depth)
This fish needs to literally put itself on the tip of your spear - ANY movement, even the swallowing of your own saliva while immersed will be enough to scare them off, did you blink? -- goodbye fish!
How to get the suckers - a perfect, silent and motionless aspetto in anything from 2-10M depth, preferably landing into a pile of seaweed with sand below which will make a nice gentle sandy cloud around you when you hit the bottom (VERY GENTLY, I use my left hand to ease the landing - gets harder the deeper you dive and more weighted you are). Eye movement also instantly shocks the fish out of shooting range too -- I'd love to see how Dentice compare because these fellas are my biggest challenge to date and I'm still working on attracting them (only ever landed one so far but have seen plenty in the distance, sometimes only as shadows they're so far away)
If you did a good aspetto, floated down to the seabed like a dead leaf and made a nice little cloud upon landing, kept the eyes in a fixed state looking at the tip of your spear, with a bit of luck, you'll have one on the end of it very shortly. Squinty eyes work well too and I know some guys close their eyes completely, then half open them very slowly to find one waiting to be shot :hmm
Another technique is using your left hand while on the seabed, gently run your fingers through the sand back and forth, very slowly, then clench a fistful of sand, turn your hand upwards and release a little cloud in front of the tip of your spear (too much and you won't even see him!) What this does is it immitates another Royal sea bream eating and if done correctly will bring them right to you. They're still just a little out of range for me, more experimentation to be done when I get back to warmer waters.
My first was taken at approx 2M depth, I lay as dead as a leaf in a jungle of seaweed surrounded by sand banks. Satisfied I hadn't made any noise whatsoever, I took a deep breath and did a one legged aspetto with one fin still protruding from the water while my head was at the edge of the seaweed before the sand bank, using my left hand I steadied myself in this position and also VERY gently parted the seaweed in front of me (it was like the opening of a stage show with curtains!) only to reveal a school of small bass, several mullet and in the middle of the pack -- a 1.7Kg royal sea bream. I had to adjust ever so slightly to take the shot and he began distancing himself but he did so, so slowly that he allowed me time to get the shot off and net an extremely tasty dinner
heh - no sense in me trying to make a fool of myself describing the noises I make underwater again, just download one of shaneshacs vids where he shoots any seabass and you will hear exactly what needs to be done to get some attention down there rofl
