Sharky Bluewater Diving

    Very cool.


    So what happens when sharks show up like that, you just keep chumming and shooting?


    How big were those tuna darting through? Were they too small to shoot or were you hoping for bigger ones to show up?

    We shot a few of the blackfin at first, but then waited for big yellowfin to show up. We ended up with 4 between 130 and 145 pounds in 3 days. The sharks took a couple fish and tore up a bunch of our gear.


    Reading the shark situation comes with experience and isn't an exact science. Most of the time we keep shooting unless they are too big, too pushy, the wrong kind, in dirty water.

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    wow that's a bit hairy huh Griswold? did I see a reel on that gun? was that for just poking away the sharks? thanks for the video.

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    No that gun is rigged so that you can switch from reel to float depending on the situation. It had a bungie float line attached since we were hunting tuna.


    Looks like a day of filming in French Poly without the nasty eaters.
    Chad, do the bulls come up to the 75' level out there, and do they ever bump first?
    I have never had a Dusky get too sh-ty with me , usually just want the fish until you dive on them.
    The tigers I have seen in the Sea of Cortez have been cool, But I don't ever trust Tigers in Tahiti.
    The chum really gets the tuna moving fast.
    Thanks for the cool post.
    Cheers, Don

    "Great mother ocean brought forth all life, it is my eternal home'' Don Berry from Blue Water Hunters.


    Spearfishing Store the freediving and spearfishing equipment specialists.

    Don,


    Really haven't had much problem with the bulls in blue water. They tend to stay in the shallower stuff. We had a couple run-ins with them shooting snapper this summer. I got charged by 2 big ones after shooting a fish. I was at about 60' when they rushed me from the depths. It was late in my dive, so I headed up - the sharks were on my fin tips when I passed into the murk about 30' from the surface. Not much fun when you can't see 3 feet and you know that there are a couple 300+ pound bulls very close and very pissed off. They had no interest in the fish, it was more like they were telling me it was their rig and I needed to get out of their territory or else - we figured they could have that rig and moved to the next one.


    A friend got chased out of the water in the same area a week later - he was on the other side of the rig from the boat. He ended up climbing the rig to get away from them - this is a guy who has been diving all around the world for many years. Very funny after the fact, but I'm sure it sucked at the time.


    Duskys usually aren't too much of a problem unless they are feeding actively.


    Tiger's I don't trust. Especially big ones that try to get behind you.

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    We did not measure it but the boat I finally swam to was too far away for sure. The shark was eaten by
    my non Tahitian friends. I'll tell the story some day.
    Cheers, Don

    "Great mother ocean brought forth all life, it is my eternal home'' Don Berry from Blue Water Hunters.


    Spearfishing Store the freediving and spearfishing equipment specialists.

    Tigers are beasts to be fear, around here they call them Tintorera chata " Flat nosed stripped shark" and the buzos do fear the frigging stealth hunters.


    Tiger burning bright in the forests of the night,
    what hand or eye could frame thy fearful simmetry?
    W.B.

    I'm a Speardiver, not a freediver

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