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Sussex Spearing 2012

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Hey guys, now there should be very low swell since Friday in Brighton.
As per Surf report (Magicseaweed & Sharkbait) this Sunday it should be almost flat and very flat tide, low @ 1pm ... that could be almost ideal?
Well yes temp only 9C water/9C air, but low wind and sunny.
I haven't been out all winter, just some pool exorcise @ Putney (access through my club "Dive Wimbledon".
I would really like to get wet & salty, but without car only Brighton accessible (by train).

Now my wife got sick, so no buddy eater
I'not keen to go on my own & wife wouldn't let me anyway

Is anybody planning any trip this Sunday, so I could join (share travel).
I live in Mitcham, between Wimbledon & Croydon.

Next week will get messy and choppy again


Cheers, Jay (Czech, 40y)
 
Hi Jay, would love to go, but I'm working this weekend I'm afraid... Hope you find a dive buddy!
 
... just noticed my funny misspelling mistake "...no buddy eater" instead of " ... no buddy either" :duh

Cant wait for spring coming in full and some "Buddy" to join :ko

I need to get out again, before I start fishing Cichlids in my fish tank at home :waterwork

HAPPY EASTER FOLKS :friday
 
Hi Yellowdevil,

Ive just moved from Shoreham to Sutton so im in the same sort of position, (not been in the water for a while now) I usualy go with a buddy but happy to share future lifts. We are in the process of buying a small rib so hope that will make some spots more accessable.

Where do you usually dive?

All the best Dan
 
I'm keen to give sussex another chance (mostly spear in Dorset now) but every time I've been in its been like pea soup once you get down a couple of meters. It might be better further off shore but who knows?

So far I have only tried the Newhaven-Brighton area.
 
Hi wyvern, how've you been matey? I got up early this morning to go in for a dip at Brighton, but it looked green (not in a good way). Hoping to go for a splash this evening - hopefully it will have settled a bit
 
Hey Nick,

I'm good thanks. How about yourself?

Green huh, well no suprises there then... Let me know how it looks tonight.
 
Hi Mossey,
I'd be glad to join you some times for dive trips.
I'm still waiting for my 1st dive of season ... still quiet chili to get naked on the beach

I have started freediving in UK just last summer, although already 6 years in here. Before suba diving for 15 years.
Got all gear as Spearo, but still waiting for my 1st fish in UK :waterwork
.. but I don't mine, I enjoy to be stealth diver, fish for dinner would be only bonus
Only got few small fish on Pole spear in Greece last year ... Skorpion fish soup was great and still alive rofl
Here in UK I've only freedived under Palace Pier last season only around 10m deep.
I don want to push my limits without diving budy.
Scuba diving in Swanage, got me exited for Dorset & devon, but imposible without car :head
Looking forward to dive lot more this year.
 
So, I went down to the beach this evening. The sea was still a sludgy green colour, getting worse as the waves were starting to kick up with the wind backing round to the south west. The air was still icy. I wimped out. Sorry.

But I did manage to feel outrage at the Brighton and Hove robber barons. Six quid for two hours parking!!! They've lost their minds. It's going to have to be dawn and dusk raids for me now to avoid the meters.

Instead of going in the water I'm jealously reading the shark anecdotes from the Dorset thread. I'm a million times more likely to be hit by a moron jumping off Brighton pier than bump into a shark (there's certainly no chance of seeing one here if it's more than a meter away!)
 
I don't blame you, I wouldn't have bothered either.

The parking Nazis are a nightmare in Brighton these days, hence I avoid it like the plague, there's plenty of free parking as you go east along from there to newhaven but I guess the vis will still be crap.
 
Hi,

I took the boat out of Littlehampton yesterday to take a look at the viz but it was all churned up. A couple of weeks ago it was crystal clear a few hundred yards off shore. Shame about the weather!

I'm pretty new to Sussex spearfishing having done most of mine over the last few years when living in Devon and Dorset. We've had some good trips to Portland this year where the conditions are a bit better but I still believe there is a lot to be found on the Sussex coast.

If anybody fancies a trip out from anywhere between Brighton and Portsmouth then let me know.

Ed.
 
Just had a walk along newhaven east arm, I estimate the vis to be about 0.25m. Mind you I wasn't expecting anything less after the weather we've been having.
 
hi,
new to this website so forgive me if i get it all wrong!
i got back from oz about 10 months ago after best part of 2 and a half years of constant spearing. since then i havent even got wet once, getting desperate to go out if this weather ever clears up.
any suggestions on places to spear and people to spear with in sussex? im based in herstmonceux, about 20 mins north of eastbourne. failing that anyone keen for a trip further west?

thanks
liam
 
Hi,

Has anyone here ever speared off Seaford beach? It's meant to be good line fishing in summer, so wondering if there's ever enough viz for spearos? It's a bit away from the Newhaven estuary (and ferry port) so good from that POV but close to some chalk cliffs, which I'm guessing might make viz bad all the time.

But experience is better than theory...so anyone ever been in there?
 
have been drift diving out of a boat off seaford, never inshore though. viz is normally pretty poor, in the right spots there are some gullys to explore if the current will let you. have also been on a boat fairly close inshore and viz has looked amazing, but its definitely a rare occurrence id say. im always keen for a dive though if you ever want to try.
 
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