Went Blue for the first time since I got back to Antigua from my holiday on Sunday as the boys were reporting yellowfin below the boat on Saturday, so I went rigged for Tuna!
Dont hate Hank :D... Don yes they were only in the 30's and 40's but it was awesome for me...:laughing:
Koah bluewater 65
C4 Wahoo fins
Micro Mask
My three torpedo fish net floats rig with my home made 50 ft bungee from Craig float lines.
Spetton Hexskin with my speardiver vest which has become indispensable to me.
Dropped into a chum line in 1000ft of water and stoned one right away in 10-15ft with a shot just behind the head breaking the spine ;). Threw it into the boat for the boys to hand me back my spear and then dropped to about 40ft and stalked this small guy who was hanging around after the school had left, he was spooky but managed to get him to pass below me, put my 5/16ths from on top through his spine just behind the head. The first was 40 LB's and the second only 26 LB's.
Could not get a shot after that... We went back to the start of our chum line and started our drift again. Saw a decent fella among the skinny boys and started the stalk at about 25 and got him to turn at about 40 with a band strum, got a great holding shot an inch from his spine and found out what all the hype is about when these guys bolt! I grabbed the bungee as it screamed by my thigh and was instantly rocketed to the surface where the 37 pound fish towed me for the best 30 seconds ever 
I was laughing so hard and feeling like a little kid.
Shot two more with solid holding shots but lost them both during the fight, I had on a wire breakaway for tuna and not spectra and I suspect that may have contributed to the loss of the last two. The second of the last two nearly cost me one of my lives and pounded home how dangerous and down right stupid pushing your limits while diving alone can be. The wahoo were staying deep and not taking the chum anymore so I dropped down on them at my comfort zone of 50'ish but they just went deeper! I made the decision to drop deeper on this 50 lb plus fella I just could not let go...stupid stupid!!!! before I knew it I was below 70 and after a long hard run at him I got a good shot, that beast took off towing my floats faster than I could follow with my eye, but ohhh shit I now realised I was already fighting my limits and had not even started my accent! I pumped and pumped for the surface while fighting my weight belt which had jammed but luckily by the time I made the weight belt call I had reached my positive buoyancy depth and the point was moot. Broke the surface with a massive exhale and on my first breath in shouted my buddy Nico on the boat I was passing out, thankfully he had seen the buoys torpedoing and had a eye on me when I broke the surface, he said I had turned blue! Nico kept me breathing slow and steady till I returned to my normal color and helped me onto the boat.
I feel like a jackass writing this, I am an experienced diver and I am normally conservative but the big fish made me forget myself and nearly made me pay the big price. So if this tale makes one diver pull up short and NOT do what I stupidly did then being a dumbass is a small price. Ohhhh and it ripped off so did not even get the fish 
After I recovered it was back in the water but there I missed two more shots completely, I was shaken up after my experience and could not get my head back into the hunt. I spent the rest of the day in the water, but I never saw anything other than 5-7lb blackfin tuna feeding and a few pup barries.
