I have been planning a spearfishing trip for the first half of August with a few friends over the last week.
It seems to be hard to get any good information regarding the fish populations, size, variety, water conditions, sharks etc...
We are looking for somewhere that has both reef and bluewater diving, plenty of big fish, good water conditions, pretty underwater scenery is what we are after. Big fish, fun diving.
What goes on on land is not important to us, we are easy to please and out for adventure so the quality of the resorts/accom or other niceties is irrelevant.
I am originally from Australia, and I was just home over March April and May, so I don't want to head back that way till Xmas. At the moment I am in Italy, but we are not really interested in diving the Med any more, I've been here for 7 years now.
We were heading for Tobago since a friend was there in March and enjoyed it enough to want to go back, though he is not a diver, just a line fisherman.
We were keen to go back there, but it seems that airfares in August are way too high. I have also heard either very good or very bad reports on Tobago, which just firther confuses me. I quite like the sound of the place, easygoing, not a lot of tourism, should be plenty of fish, both reef and bluewater sppecies. No?
The other possible destination is Cabo Verde. I saw an article in the Australian Blue Water Hunting magazine a few years back written by an Italian who spent some time spearing wahoo and other pelagics there. He took some very impressive fish.
But I get the feeling that Cape Verde Islands are predomintly a bluewater location, with no reef so to speak, correct me if I'm wrong? Also I recall hearing the sharks there can be bad and chances are I may be diving alone a lot of the time if my mates (who are line fishos), who are terrified of the idea of seeing a shark....though they are interested in trying some spearfishing.
Can anyone offer advice on any really good spearfishing locations around the world? Deciding where to head for a memorable spearfishing trip seems to be harder than I thought I might be.
It seems to be hard to get any good information regarding the fish populations, size, variety, water conditions, sharks etc...
We are looking for somewhere that has both reef and bluewater diving, plenty of big fish, good water conditions, pretty underwater scenery is what we are after. Big fish, fun diving.
What goes on on land is not important to us, we are easy to please and out for adventure so the quality of the resorts/accom or other niceties is irrelevant.
I am originally from Australia, and I was just home over March April and May, so I don't want to head back that way till Xmas. At the moment I am in Italy, but we are not really interested in diving the Med any more, I've been here for 7 years now.
We were heading for Tobago since a friend was there in March and enjoyed it enough to want to go back, though he is not a diver, just a line fisherman.
We were keen to go back there, but it seems that airfares in August are way too high. I have also heard either very good or very bad reports on Tobago, which just firther confuses me. I quite like the sound of the place, easygoing, not a lot of tourism, should be plenty of fish, both reef and bluewater sppecies. No?
The other possible destination is Cabo Verde. I saw an article in the Australian Blue Water Hunting magazine a few years back written by an Italian who spent some time spearing wahoo and other pelagics there. He took some very impressive fish.
But I get the feeling that Cape Verde Islands are predomintly a bluewater location, with no reef so to speak, correct me if I'm wrong? Also I recall hearing the sharks there can be bad and chances are I may be diving alone a lot of the time if my mates (who are line fishos), who are terrified of the idea of seeing a shark....though they are interested in trying some spearfishing.
Can anyone offer advice on any really good spearfishing locations around the world? Deciding where to head for a memorable spearfishing trip seems to be harder than I thought I might be.
