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03-29-2005, 03:42 AM | #16 |
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Re: Chronicles of a Blue Water Hunter
Hiya
gonetobaja, offer goes out to EVERY-ONE!!!! Just pitch up here, and i'll be happy to make place on my boat!!! Regards miles |
03-29-2005, 08:04 AM | #17 |
Will spear for beer...
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Isla Mujeres, Mexico
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Re: Chronicles of a Blue Water Hunter
Miles, great job on the YF; we hope to get out off the reefs here in Okinawa very soon. Finally hooked up with a local that owns a boat. While we rarely got skunked this winter, bringing in groupers, ulua and snapper, I'm looking forward to more and bigger fish as the weather warms up. Great story, as well. Magnum166
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03-29-2005, 04:03 PM | #18 |
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Re: Chronicles of a Blue Water Hunter
WoW!!! Spearing two 100+lb Yellowfins the same day, your wife not only going on the boat with you. But, shooting too.
When I grow up I want to be just like you!! BTW he's probably not smiling because he's still feeling the pain from the Man-O-War sting. That or he's mad because he just had the mate pee on it. |
03-29-2005, 05:09 PM | #19 |
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Re: Chronicles of a Blue Water Hunter
Wow great haul!!
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03-30-2005, 04:35 AM | #20 |
Crazy for Dog Tooth Tuna
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Location: Jakarta, Indonesia
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Re: Chronicles of a Blue Water Hunter
What else can I say.......
You consistently land what most people dreams of... Good skill Miles. South Africa....what a place !!! How come them YF does not sound deep when you boys are in the water ??
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04-06-2005, 06:50 AM | #21 |
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Re: Chronicles of a Blue Water Hunter
Hiya
Well, after a very windy week-end, the weather had settled down (as usual!!). So off to sea we went!!! The day started off well with two small YF's and a Dorado (mahi-mahi) caught on the troll. PERFECT pan sized fish. Then the diving started. Viz. wasn't that great, 10-15m at best but with quite a bit of particles in the water. The small blue sharks were also in attendance, gobbling up chum as soon as it hit the water. There were quite a bit of YF's around, but they were VERY shy and would only feed on the chum 10-15m deep. They simply would not come closer to the surface. Tommy how-ever showed why he is so legendary by taking 3 YF's which we guestimated to be around the 70kg mark!!! Thats 3 YF's shot and landed in under an hour!!!! The high-light of the trip was the schools of Dorado (mahi-mahi) we got. VERY RARE visitor to our part of the ocean. We managed to take 14 Dorado's. Great fun!!!!! Tony and myself weren't having such a good day. We both missed on the longer shots and i managed to give a solid shot on a 70kg class fish only to have the fish bend the spear and to have the slip tip not engage. Tony manged a great shot on a fish only to see the fish BREAK the 8mm spear in half!!!! With a thick fog approaching, we had to make a early run home. (no radar on my semi-rigid!!!) One VERY funny incident: Just after Tony had his spear broken, i was alone in the water. Tommy and Tony were both on the boat. Tommy was chumming for me, when a blue shark appears. He starts eating the chum and i dive to chase him away. After a couple of attempts, i finally get close enough to jab him with my spearpoint. The blue shark now becomes peeved off at me and starts acting strangely. Starts swimming very erratically and starts circling me. Tommy's laughing and how this blue shark is giving me grief. It is about this time that i realise that its a bloody mako!!!!! Not too worried as i've got a four banded wooden gun, i slowly start swimming back to the boat. All the time will this peeved off 2m Mako is circling me. i get into the boat and my crew is laughing at me for trying to chase a mako!! (mako's are known to get VERY aggressive when provoked!!) Now, about 30m ahead of us is another boat with 3 spearo's in the water. Tommy shouts to the closest spearo, "watch out, there's a mako coming your way!!!" The spearo in the water just shakes his head. Now this peeved of mako is swimming on the surface straight to this diver. all three of us are now watching the shark. the spearo sees the shark and shouts: "there's a F@CKIND HUUUUUUGE MAKO here!!!!!!!!! Guys helpppppppp!!!!!!" (note shark was only 2m long!!) Had us doubled over with laughter!! Can't wait for week-end!!! regards miles |
04-06-2005, 06:52 AM | #22 |
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Re: Chronicles of a Blue Water Hunter
more pic's
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04-06-2005, 11:20 AM | #23 |
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Re: Chronicles of a Blue Water Hunter
That is some awesome freaking stuff!
Congrats on the great trips and thanks for the reports and photos from our SA bruthas! |
04-06-2005, 01:27 PM | #24 |
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Re: Chronicles of a Blue Water Hunter
Simply obscene.......obscene at its finest......obscene.....
I was about to book a first class ticket on a Concorde to join you and then I remembered the great white and now the Mako.......Dang.....!!! OK, I will start using chum as off today. No more Mr nice guy or eco friendly.... I will use chum....... Good one young man. I really enjoy them YUMMMMMMMMYYYYY photos. Tuna....tuna...tuna...I adore you.....
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04-06-2005, 02:05 PM | #25 |
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Re: Chronicles of a Blue Water Hunter
Man, you guys are blessed with some insane diving down there. Wow.
Cheers, Gerald
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04-06-2005, 06:26 PM | #26 |
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Re: Chronicles of a Blue Water Hunter
Great, great reports. Love hearing this overseas stuff.
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04-07-2005, 12:12 AM | #27 |
hoos your daddy?
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Location: Cali
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Re: Chronicles of a Blue Water Hunter
i need to move somewhere like that, u are a badass.
*not sure if they use the term "badass" over there but its a good thing. Last edited by SpearoPimp; 04-08-2005 at 12:12 AM. |
04-07-2005, 07:04 AM | #28 |
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Re: Chronicles of a Blue Water Hunter
Amazing. You are managing to do what everyone on this board dreams of doing. You have the opportunity and obviously the skill to make it happen. Congratulations.
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04-07-2005, 09:47 AM | #29 |
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Re: Chronicles of a Blue Water Hunter
Miles,
I would love to have my ugly mug in those pics. I like that story with the dude yelling "huge Mako", we spearos always add a few extra feet or meters to shark we see or fish we spear. Stay safe out in the blue...I got a new Rabitech 130cm Carbon all set for bw. It's a sweet gun and Eric from Sumora set me up nicely. I would love to nail a yt or yf with it in your neck of the woods. |
04-07-2005, 12:46 PM | #30 |
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Re: Chronicles of a Blue Water Hunter
Miles:
It seems like my spearfishing nirvana is just another weekend out for you guys, you are truly blessed. I have been to your beautiful country on two occasions (long before my spearfishing days) and I really loved it. That was back in 1989 and 1990. I spent a total of 9 weeks there visiting cities like Jo-burg, Capetown, Durban, Pretoria, Sun City and even Bloemfontein (sp?). My time in South Africa was INCREDIBLE and hope to make it back down and get wet the next time. The envy is coursing through my and I suspect everyone else on the board's veins!! Oh, and Miles, SMILE for pete's sake, you MUST SMILE! Dive safe and enjoy! |
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