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Ledge

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They are lovely fish to see in the water.

Yeah. I'm still aiming for a tail this season! Hopefully soon.
The water must be cleaning up your side. Water temp off Kommetjie has dropped from 17 deg to 11 deg in just over 24 hours...

Brrrr

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landshark

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eenvoet wrote:
in a area that there are almost none, the few that are there should be left so that they can breed.
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Agreed. I must also admit that I haven't seem many of them while spearfishing shallower reefs. I have however seen them in numbers while scuba diving deeper reefs.

Can you please provide a bit more info as to the population density and distribution of the Cape Knifejaw in False Bay?
 
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x_yeti

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I think I've shot more knifejaws (big ones too) than hotties in Falsebay. I really haven't gotten the impression that their numbers are low. Sized roman on the other hand are scarce!

I'd like to know more about fish numbers too. If certain fish are low in numbers then I'd rather not hunt them even if it is legal.
 
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arno65

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well done on your fish,a word of advice for getting the big 1 is that you have to wait for it.get better and if u in the water often you wil get rewarded,im stil a newbie too,and i only shot small fish for 9 months til my big 1 swam past ,my 1st fish looked xactly like yours.:)
 
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Capespearo

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There was a test done on fish and their mercury content quite recently.Red Romans in False Bay particularly showed by far the highest volumes,not sure I'd want to be eating them :fbash
 
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x_yeti

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Capespearo wrote:
There was a test done on fish and their mercury content quite recently.Red Romans in False Bay particularly showed by far the highest volumes,not sure I'd want to be eating them :fbash
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I think the mercury makes them taste better!
 
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arno65

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simba,I live in toti close to the main beach,i can imagine that u regret starting spearfishing only now coz you missed out alot when u were living close to a nice spearing area.:).i njoy diving off boat more tho,would like some1 to show me how to do the shore spearing properly.
 
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Simba

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Hey bud, i grew down in Warner beach. Used to surf warners and winklespruit my whole life. Then moved to durban itself when i was like 18 or so. Gonna head back to go do some spearing in the next couple months. Yeah if only i was spearing properly back then...
 
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Simba

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nah, in a couple months i'll be heading down there just for a small holiday of a week or so. Just to catch up with my dad and sister who still live there.
 
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Simba

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Just a pic or 2 of the past 2 weekends. Mouille point was ok yesterday. viz wasn't amazing but still a good 3 or 4 meters.
Shifty got a pretty big hottie. And my pic is a jutjaw from last weekend. We been pretty lucky on this side for past few weeks actually.
 
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