here is a guide for spearos wishing to spear in latin america published on my site and written with my friend carlos garcia
With water temperatures ranging from 22 degrees to 30 Celsius, and average visibility of 10/15 meters, Spear fishing can be performed on a daily bases.
Venezuela holds a great variety of fishes, and its geography allows practicing either reef or blue water hunting. While reef hunting, it’s very common to dive among Groupers, Snappers and other reef endemic specimen as Barracudas and Carangids such as Permits, Pompanos, Jacks and Cobias. Gear buster tarpons and snooks are an aggregate value to your dives.
Instead spearfishing in the blue implies meeting marlins, sailfishes, Tunas, Wahoos, kingfishes and mahis. They will keep you busy and very pleased.
The gear to be used has to be heavy. It should be a powerful gun equipped with no less than 7mm shafts, 2 bands and with a 1mt long barrel at least: this is the average gun for the reefs. For in blue spearfishing, you should have instead at least a double band 110cm gun, with no less than a 7mm shaft, float line system rigged according to your expectations…
A 3 mm suit will work all year long.
On the reef, spearing can be done from 0 to 40 meters either on coastal waters or in the islands. Nevertheless, big fishes can eventually swarm the shallows searching for food and be a very pleasant surprise for the lucky spero who finds himself in the right place at the right time….but obviously this is not the rule!!!! As in the rest of the oceans the grander are at almost prohibited ranges of depth due to the great sense of life self preservation, But anyways, there is plenty of fishy spots to provide a great day at sea!!!
Local laws require a valid spear fishing license in order to perform the activity and as in all other countries it’s not allowed to spearfish on National Parks or protected areas.