Living in Struisbaai for the almost 2years, but working overseas it’s always been a mis/mis situation for me when i get vacation home. This last May however the tail stayed around a little bit longer and we got a few nice days.
The other issue is that i have no dive buddy, the ones i had were unreliable in not showing up and others i invited never even bothered coming. SO this May my wife and i was out on the 12mile again. Warming up with some trolling and jigging and it was not long before we had some tail in the boat and could see them under the boat. I needed no invitation and was in the water and soon landed a few nice tail up to 9kg. End of day 1
As the days progressed so the spearfishing improved... By now i had pin pointed the tail and every day i was on them from the 1st dive. My wife is from the Ukraine but in 2 years logged over 100hours as a skipper/buggy and landed over a few dozen yellowtail.
While i was spearing them, she was spinning and jigging, landing a few of her own. It was getting late on a very nice day, but i just could not get out of the water. After spearing another 9kg tail i was struggling to get my knife out to give him the "coupe de grace" As i was contemplating that i am awfully long occupied with this tail and not looking around much i felt a positive bump to my left calf. Without even looking i knew it was not my fin or something else. As i looked around i saw a big Mako right behind me, he spun around just as fast as i did and for a few seconds i could not see anything in the white foam created by both our commotions.
The Mako started swimming in its normal erratic fashion, every time swimming right up to me and turning away at the last moment. I punched it a couple of times with the empty speargun and it seemed to p*ss it off as it took an irritated posture. All the time i was thinking why i left my Freedom-7 in the boat. In the mean time i called the boat over while still holding on to the fish. When i eased up on punching the mako, so he became less irritated and he just swam right up to me and then slowly turned away. By this time his posture had returned to curious and not p*ssed anymore. Rita positioned the boat between me and the Mako and i got in the boat right after tossing the tail in.
In the days that followed i had some of my best yellowtail spearfishing, filling my quota almost every time. I did however wear my Freedom-7 shark shield and never saw another shark for the trip. Seeing that Mako underwater and so close was definitely the high light of my trip.
I hope in future some members from the forum that love spearfishing as much as i do will get in touch and join me for some yellowtail spearfishing..
Regard
Trompie
The other issue is that i have no dive buddy, the ones i had were unreliable in not showing up and others i invited never even bothered coming. SO this May my wife and i was out on the 12mile again. Warming up with some trolling and jigging and it was not long before we had some tail in the boat and could see them under the boat. I needed no invitation and was in the water and soon landed a few nice tail up to 9kg. End of day 1
As the days progressed so the spearfishing improved... By now i had pin pointed the tail and every day i was on them from the 1st dive. My wife is from the Ukraine but in 2 years logged over 100hours as a skipper/buggy and landed over a few dozen yellowtail.
While i was spearing them, she was spinning and jigging, landing a few of her own. It was getting late on a very nice day, but i just could not get out of the water. After spearing another 9kg tail i was struggling to get my knife out to give him the "coupe de grace" As i was contemplating that i am awfully long occupied with this tail and not looking around much i felt a positive bump to my left calf. Without even looking i knew it was not my fin or something else. As i looked around i saw a big Mako right behind me, he spun around just as fast as i did and for a few seconds i could not see anything in the white foam created by both our commotions.
The Mako started swimming in its normal erratic fashion, every time swimming right up to me and turning away at the last moment. I punched it a couple of times with the empty speargun and it seemed to p*ss it off as it took an irritated posture. All the time i was thinking why i left my Freedom-7 in the boat. In the mean time i called the boat over while still holding on to the fish. When i eased up on punching the mako, so he became less irritated and he just swam right up to me and then slowly turned away. By this time his posture had returned to curious and not p*ssed anymore. Rita positioned the boat between me and the Mako and i got in the boat right after tossing the tail in.
In the days that followed i had some of my best yellowtail spearfishing, filling my quota almost every time. I did however wear my Freedom-7 shark shield and never saw another shark for the trip. Seeing that Mako underwater and so close was definitely the high light of my trip.
I hope in future some members from the forum that love spearfishing as much as i do will get in touch and join me for some yellowtail spearfishing..
Regard
Trompie
. Its a beautifull place