Spearfishing from a Kayak:

[Gustav Kamfer]

so with a little help from enigma, hopefully I'll get this post up and running second time round.

Just a couple of pics of some of the fish we got when spearing from the ski’s in the waters around Paindane. Though we only had 4days of descent diving opportunities in our 2 week holiday to get some spear fishing done, this is what we delivered.

 

[Gustav Kamfer]

Since we were limited to fish from the skis, we only dived within a 5 or 6km radius of Paindane. We also only dived on the deeper reefs as spear fishing within a 300m radius of the reef at Paindane is prohibited. This left us with a narrow strip of water in the 18 to 25m region.

 

[Gustav Kamfer]

So Day one my old man and I get up at 5am and at first light make our way out through the surf to the back of the reef. We jump in at the Northern end of the reef and make our first drift South, with the current along the reef.
About 10min after jumping in I realise that my dad isn’t in the water any more, but rather on his kayak. I swim over to hear what’s the matter. I get there only to behold an awesome sight. A monster of a GT tied by the tail to the float line. I look up only to see him smiling from ear to ear. I also then get out of the water as it was not going to be a one man task getting this fish into/ onto the ski. As it turns out the fish is way too big for the hatch and we end up spending about 20min tying the fish onto the deck of the ski. After 10min of diving and 20min of securing the catch, we call it a day and head back to shore.

 

[Gustav Kamfer]

Turns out this beauty came in at just over 40kg a personal best for my old man.

 

[Gustav Kamfer]

With the shot perfectly placed behind the head fish didn’t even give a single kick, with a solid shot breaking its back, it was game over before it even began

 

[Gustav Kamfer]

Our next opportunity to do some spear fishing was 2 days later. We paddled out, and as I jumped into the water I almost landed on the backs of one of 3 giant stingrays accompanied by 10 or so young cobia. I get the shot and a couple of minutes later it’s in the hatch. While constantly working the flasher, a see a faint outline at least 12m below me. I dart down to have a look, and it turns out to be a couta, after following it under water for what felt like ages it finally turns giving me the opportunity to place the shot right behind its head stunning the fish on impact. With my second fish in the hatch and my sinuses acting up, I decide to take a break. We soon paddle up current for a second drift, and as my dad jumps back into the water he finds himself surrounded by a shoal of nice size barracuda, and like a boss soon lift his fish into the boat.

 

[Gustav Kamfer]

With a northerly wind blowing fowl green, jellyfish infested water to shore diving conditions wasn’t great and we rather did some fishing since the waters just off the reef was boiling at dawn and dusk with kawa-kawa, skipjack and small yellow fins. We managed to get 5 tuna all between 4-7kg as well as several kawa’s and skippies, that make for great fun on light tackle.




finaly the wind turned back to South and on the last day of our trip we make our way out one more time. After several hours of diving and missing out on a couple of opportunities (due to still foul discoloured water) on large couta and a few pompano I finally managed to bag myself a descent snoek to end of the holiday

 

[Gustav Kamfer]

queen mac

 

[Pdoooubleu]

Awsome GT!!well done on the rest of the fish!

 

[Psy]

Fantastic Gustav...congrats to your Dad too.

Hope to touch base with you all soon, winter is waining away!

 

[ph03n1xkny]

Well done Piet & Gustav! Nice fish!

 

[Gerhard]

Wow,

Nice fish.

Awesome to be able to share this sport with your old man.

Enjoy every moment.