Is this fish the same as the California yellowtail, and is called a kingfish in NZ?
Posts by Dan
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On second thought Jeff why don't I just send you the stock? You can keep it so money and time will be saved on shipping, and there won't be any room for error trying to do make adjustments from pics. This is the stock.
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Sergio, polespear is more difficult so the sense of achievement when landing a nice fish is greater. More into the sporting aspect of spearfishing.
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pfft.. that's me
Send it over
you can have it back right after. I have a competitor series stock, and I don't need to shoot the gun to know if the handle is good. -
Pursuit "Red Tide" knife. The two serrated edges come handy.
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I agree, that's why I felt really good about the one iI got, He was staying ahead of me, moving away in typical mutton fashion never offering a broadside. It was a good stalk and good shot, I had to time it in anticipation of his shallow turn.
One almost surprising thing was that we didn't see any mackerels. There are always mackerels at some point in the day, and I like to shoot them to feed to my dogs. I was a little bummed that there was going to be no fish to give to my dogs. When we got back to the dock there were a couple of huge tarpon feeding on discarded fish carcasses. As I took a closer look I saw in the shallow water just past the ramp what looked like an entire bonito. I waded into the stinky waist high water and pulled the fish out, it was indeed a whole bonito, approx 10lb, with just a small piece of flesh cut out near the tail. My dogs are having fish dinner for a few days
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Wow! Good to know they're plentiful somewhere. Thanks for posting.
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Kolt, there's a new New Zealand section for you to post a report in. A picture is needed for the section, preferably one with a fish unique to your area, if you'd like to contribute one.
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Tēnā koe Kolt. Glad to have you here.
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Great pics especially for still captures.
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Try using the search function with key words like; float line or floatline, you'll come up with threads like this http://spearfishing.world/floa…e-for-float-question.html
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Well it is true that I found the Mako predaor pro speargun to be accurate, at least with Steven's setup; one 16mm band and 7mm shaft with short overhang. The first and only time I shot it I hit a small fish at a good range. But that's not the point. There's isn't much to a speargun in terms of basic functionality, it's a glorified slingshot. As long as the mech is capable of holding the shaft with the bands stretched you can shoot stuff. To me it's about the finer details that make the gun user friendly.
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Nice king Misael :thumbsup1:
Good to see the Jon boat back in action.
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July 31/2010
Myself, Gerald, Jenyie, Nider, and driver Julio went out on Jenyie's boat. Conditions were good; sea flat building to about 2ft towards the end of the day, little or no current, rashguard temp water, could see shadow of bottom structure in 60-70ft.
We dove 60-70 most of the day, a mix of artificial and reef, and finished the day in 45-50. Slowly but surely the cooler was filled with fine examples of our local fish. I'll let the guys tell their stories. For my part I was content with my performance after a long time out of the water. I went back to my old one piece teak wood gun and every reasonable shot I took was good, including a nice 9lb mutton. I hope Gerald chimes in with the pics.
Jenyie, thanks for taking us out.
your stuff got there later than it should have so..