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How about the Great White close encounter and Marlin story.........Give me those cause I think they are rare, hard to find and awesome.
I already have a Coke & Popcorn standing by
OK OK, I have short but uninteresting Giant Trevally story while freediving. Can't tell you those on scuba, the thread specificaly stated Freediving. So everyone may bring out the puke bag....:t
Here goes............
There is this rocky area on an Island (which I used to scuba). Since I wanted to learn to freedive, I choose this spot because I know Giant Trevally likes all those places where the wave crash on rokcs and produce water bubbles. I was trying my friend Riffe Comp #2, a very small light weight like a Euro gun but made of teak. It is only +-114cm with 7mm shaft, double flopper screw on spearhead and 12mm x 2 rubber. The wave condition was just perfect, so decent surge but dive able. I look around the rocks, the grunts ( I think this is what they call it in English ) were swimming around the white water bubble. So I swan around again looking at every corner of the rocks. Then I came around to one area where the sea bed is not made of the usual soft coral common to this area, it was made of football size rocks, like those in the river. The rocks had shiny appearance to it, I suppose the repeated surge in and out of this place have made the rocks look so smooth. So I swam into this area, the water was only 3 meters deep and I was not even underwater, I was still snorkling the area looking for possible structure which the Trevaly likes. Visibility was no better than 5 meters, usual. I kept swimming deeper into this area and from a distance I saw some shiny thing moving around, I was trying to make it what they were and to my disbelief, I saw a school of Giant Trevallies, like 10 of them. Average 7 to 15 kg. They were like in a meeting, share holders meeting ???? He he he he. I don't see Giant Trevallies in a school unless I dive in wrecks and esspecialy oil rigs. To me this is a rare sight...poor me, I know.......
So I was trying to choose the biggest of them all and I know this 12mm x 2 band on 7mm shaft with this odd looking speartip won't give me better than 2.5 meters of potent shooting distance, maybe less. So, I tried getting closer. It so happened one of the smaller one like a 7kg size, broke out of the group and swam out of the area and was getting close to me. I aimed and shot the fish, but I aimed like how I aimed by bigger Riffe. The shaft hit the fish too high, instead of the spine which I aimed for. The fish went mad and started to hit the rocks trying to break free and it did. I can't imagine what happened untill I pulled the shaft and noticed that the speartip was gone. I even had 8mm shaft bent bad by this small size trevaly before but broken speartip.........no, not on this small size trevally.
I went back to the boat and told the owner. We inspected the spearhead and it did actualy break. This shitty spearhead was made by this friend in his own machine shop. It was made from three different parts, all threaded together and no Loc-Tite and boy........what a lousy design. The speartip undo itself into pieces when the fish went crazy......SHIT !!! I came back to the spot with my 124cm Riffe S#2 and it already became a grave yard. What a lousy story..........so gentlemen...you may use ur puke bag now
Fair exchange Abri ? Where can you get an original dumb but honest story like mine.......he he he. :duh
IYA