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Pending World Record Yellowtail
- Thread starter Muffin Man
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aquadementia
Sealiner
Im guessing new zealand somewhere? 3 kings or ranfurly?
Muffin Man
Senior Member
Hi Guys the spearo is Brandon Wahles at a place known as the Lupe. Have no idea where that is the guy was busy with the National Geographic team filming a doc on Great White Sharks.
They were free diving with the great whites insane if you ask me but he commented on the fact that they were curious and cautious around the divers and not hungry.
It will be on TV at a later stage don't know when. The bloke said the diving for the tail was tough as they were close to the bottom and had shot fish with 2 other guys with some fish being shot at 100ft. I am not a spearo but that sounds moerse deep and at the same spot as the sharks must be a lunatic or seriously ontop of his game.
Cheers Paul.
They were free diving with the great whites insane if you ask me but he commented on the fact that they were curious and cautious around the divers and not hungry.
It will be on TV at a later stage don't know when. The bloke said the diving for the tail was tough as they were close to the bottom and had shot fish with 2 other guys with some fish being shot at 100ft. I am not a spearo but that sounds moerse deep and at the same spot as the sharks must be a lunatic or seriously ontop of his game.
Cheers Paul.
Muffin Man
Senior Member
Guadalupe was the spot. Cheers Paul (MM)
Hammertime
Sealiner
go to bloodydecks.com the story's been there for a few days.
Here is the story of how the fish was shot.
100 foot is quite atainable 33m
I have not looked at the regulations for claiming a world record, but i do not know if a bungie is legal.
Hey guys thanks for all the good wishes!!
I was down there for just under 3 weeks, filming a documentary about white shark cognition with National Geographic, and all I can say it was an AWESOME experience.
There were 2 other freedivers on the trip with me, Ryan McInnis was there filming, and Mark Healey was also diving and spearfishing with me. Ryan captured some AMAZING footage of us spearfishing as well as doing a lot of cool diving with the white sharks.
Diving with the sharks required us to be really cautious and on top of our game, constantly scanning and making sure one wasnt sneaking up on us from behind or charging from below. There were a number of times that we ended up less than 2 feet from the mouth of the sharks, but having good buddies looking out kept any accidents from happening. It seemed like the smaller sharks with scars all over them were the ones who always wanted a taste, and were more sketchy to be in the water with, whereas the bigger ones were more cautious and mellow. We got to do numerous dorsal fin rides on several sharks, which was really good footage for the documentary.
We learned that the sharks were very curious and cautious, and not just hungry.
The details of what we learned will be explained when the show comes out at some point, but I cant wait to go back and do some more diving there.
The yellow weighed in on the Fathomiers certified scale at 87.6 lbs, with a length of 64.5" and a girth of 32.5". The bigger yellows were consistently deeper near the bottom, and we speared some at over 100ft. It wasnt easy diving, with the possiblity of white sharks in the area, but it paid off. Mark Healey shot a nice 130 lb Yellow Fin Tuna that ran into the shallows 300yds away. He swam all the way into the shallows as we watched out for sharks and put a second shot into the fish, all filmed by Ryan in amazing HD quality. Ryan definitely got some amazing underwater footage and stills that will be seen sometime in the future. We are planning on writing an aritcle for HSD, so look out for some really nice pics sometime soon!!
Once again, thanks for all the congratulations, and I feel really blessed to have run into a fish like that, it still feels like a dream!!
And while im thanking people I want to thank Chris from Sea Sniper for lending me his personal gun to use for the trip, which I shot that yellowtail with from FAR away. Unfortunately the gun is on the bottom in 400 ft of water due to a white shark eating my buoy, pulling the gun out of my hand and taking the whole rig to the bottom, biting through my bungee with its teeth. It was a beautiful gun with a sick squid paint job by amadeo.
100 foot is quite atainable 33m
I have not looked at the regulations for claiming a world record, but i do not know if a bungie is legal.
Hey guys thanks for all the good wishes!!
I was down there for just under 3 weeks, filming a documentary about white shark cognition with National Geographic, and all I can say it was an AWESOME experience.
There were 2 other freedivers on the trip with me, Ryan McInnis was there filming, and Mark Healey was also diving and spearfishing with me. Ryan captured some AMAZING footage of us spearfishing as well as doing a lot of cool diving with the white sharks.
Diving with the sharks required us to be really cautious and on top of our game, constantly scanning and making sure one wasnt sneaking up on us from behind or charging from below. There were a number of times that we ended up less than 2 feet from the mouth of the sharks, but having good buddies looking out kept any accidents from happening. It seemed like the smaller sharks with scars all over them were the ones who always wanted a taste, and were more sketchy to be in the water with, whereas the bigger ones were more cautious and mellow. We got to do numerous dorsal fin rides on several sharks, which was really good footage for the documentary.
We learned that the sharks were very curious and cautious, and not just hungry.
The details of what we learned will be explained when the show comes out at some point, but I cant wait to go back and do some more diving there.
The yellow weighed in on the Fathomiers certified scale at 87.6 lbs, with a length of 64.5" and a girth of 32.5". The bigger yellows were consistently deeper near the bottom, and we speared some at over 100ft. It wasnt easy diving, with the possiblity of white sharks in the area, but it paid off. Mark Healey shot a nice 130 lb Yellow Fin Tuna that ran into the shallows 300yds away. He swam all the way into the shallows as we watched out for sharks and put a second shot into the fish, all filmed by Ryan in amazing HD quality. Ryan definitely got some amazing underwater footage and stills that will be seen sometime in the future. We are planning on writing an aritcle for HSD, so look out for some really nice pics sometime soon!!
Once again, thanks for all the congratulations, and I feel really blessed to have run into a fish like that, it still feels like a dream!!
And while im thanking people I want to thank Chris from Sea Sniper for lending me his personal gun to use for the trip, which I shot that yellowtail with from FAR away. Unfortunately the gun is on the bottom in 400 ft of water due to a white shark eating my buoy, pulling the gun out of my hand and taking the whole rig to the bottom, biting through my bungee with its teeth. It was a beautiful gun with a sick squid paint job by amadeo.
The 'Lupe' is now famous for GWS and HUGE (300lbs+) yellowfin targeted by the San Diego long range fleet.
The whites are so thick there at times the boats loose the majority of their fish to them. They wait till the tuna is tired and in a death spiral and chow down.
These guys are extremly skilled individuals, but then again the boarder between genius and insanity is a blurry one.
Check out the post, it has some great pics.
http://www.bloodydecks.com/forums/s...o/160646-pending-world-record-yellowtail.html
The whites are so thick there at times the boats loose the majority of their fish to them. They wait till the tuna is tired and in a death spiral and chow down.
These guys are extremly skilled individuals, but then again the boarder between genius and insanity is a blurry one.
Check out the post, it has some great pics.
http://www.bloodydecks.com/forums/s...o/160646-pending-world-record-yellowtail.html