Anyone know of any good spots for a spear around the dampier archipelago or close to shore out of Karratha? I have a 15 foot runnabout to get me out there. Heard around rosmary island is good for crays aswell?

Matt

G'day

I just wanted to let you all know that our show, Spearing the Menu, is finally on in WA. It is on WTV Perth.

You can find the guide here http://www.wtvperth.com.au/tv-guide.html 

STM is on at 11pm Tuesdays and 11am Fridays. Hope you enjoy it.

WTV are also showing a great fishing show called Adventure Bound. This also has some diving and spearfishing, but also some great line fishing action from WA.

Cheers

Koops 

A new Freediving/Spearfishing Club is starting in Albany. Meetings will be held on the 4th Tuesday of every month at the Marshall Pavillion, Centenial Oval.
The meeting will start at 7pm and probaly go for 1-1.5hrs (maybe longer if people start bragging). The club will cater for divers of all ages and experiance/confidence levels. If anymore details are required i can be PM'd through this site.

Paul

what are the seac sub asso spearguns like?? Thinking of getting one as an opportunistic gun while craying. Probaly just going to go for a 75 or 90 to keep it fairly compact. 

Hey guys,

I'm chasing a bit of advice about my 1000mm railgun.

 I replaced the line on it, but i am unsure whether i have made it the correct length.

How long on average should the line be ?

 Mine is 3 lengths of the gun.

I dont seem to be able to get close enough without spooking the fish, or it could be that i am just a crap shot !

cheers

kev

sorry about my bad spellign :P. on sunday morning me and a mate and some chick friends are heading up there for some landbased spearfishing along that reef that goes out about 1km. any ever worked that reef or know what sort of fish we might run into?

Heard on the news today that a 60yo Spearo died 8km off Jurien over the weekend. Mates came up to find him floating. Surely got to be anyone worst nightmare. Deepest condolances to his family and friends.

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hey i might be going with a few mates to point peron 2 morrow morning. i know it will be a bit windy but i was wondering how the swell and vis will be like 2 morrow? do u guys think its worth having a look or not?

hi have been snorkelling and freediving some local bshorebased reefs and wondered if this fish(red lipped morwong) are good eating

Hi everyone,  Who else is getting excited about the weekend?  Magic weather, calm and over cast to bring my nemesis the mackerel to the surface for longer.  I reckon there will be a few fish caught.  Fingers crossed.   P.S. Since I am new on here I will quickly introduce myself.  I love fishing and spearfishing (DAH), my weapon of choice in a 1.2m Orca but I also love my telescopic SS gidgee passed down from the old man.  My comfortable dive depth is about 8-10m but I have reached 15m.  And I am a totally hopeless fisherman (both types) so I don’t expect to be posting on the brag board much. Cheers

hi everyone recently doing some freediving and some spearfishing and have some questions

could you tell me how all you equilize your ears because the valsalva pinch and blow technique does not work for me if head down and even normally it doesnt work well

another thing i've come across is just swallowing it works but still a bit hard to do head first

so i've heard of frenzel technique, now i can just not really find good info on how to do it, could you shed some light.

and has anyone else had a problem with equilizing head first

I am in Busselton from the 17th to the 30th Jan and love to catch up with some other spearos for a dive any one keen? I am happy to chase crabs or go after fish.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E58I2B6gqSc

Made by a dive buddy on a recent Steep trip.

Bloody hilarious. Essential viewing.

Spearfishing in our big state. Very cool!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWZ5_viRyZ4

Film by Ash Walsh.

Thought I would post up a pic of a dive I did last weekend. 24.4m. Down for 52 seconds only.

Felt very comfortable when I turned and ascended. Am going to have a crack at breaking 30m tomorrow if everything works out and I have someone to spot me on the bottom.

Hit up Hamelin Bay Yesterday.

Southerlies were blowing a gale and vis was average.

Managed a cracker of a red snapper which was promptly taken by a very large bronzie, biggest ive seen and showed a small amount of interest in me, but seemed to be after my fish. So swam holding my fish for quite some time, knocked off a big queenie and a sambo. When I was about 100m from the boat id let the fish go on the end of my rope and i started to get towed backwards again. Popped my head up to see a lot of white wash and my dive buddies standing on the boat with their mouths wide open. Pulled myself towards the stringer and lost only my sambo and a few skippy. Queenie had some impressive bite marks on it but the $20 SD Card I bought off Ebay seems to have sh*t itself. Absolutely spewing!!!!!!!!!

 No dhuies sighted for 4hrs in the water, 8-14m. Did see a smallish nurse shark moping about the bottom.

And after the shark sighting I was 1 dive buddie down

On another note, does anyone know where to get cheap brand name SD cards?

hi all,



I finally got around to buying my mares cyrano 970.  



I've just put it together though am finding that its quite hard to load it.  I'm not loading it to the point that it's clicked in though I'm just trying to slide it say halfway into the gun.



At the moment I'm only getting it a couple cms in.  It seems that I'm putting a fair bit of pressure on it (to the point that the shaft starts flexing) though it doesn't want to go any further.



Does anyone have any tips?  Are they easier to load under water?



Perhaps I just need to harden up!  Only thing is I don't want to push it to hard as it feels that the shaft could bend...



Cheers



Wayne

me and mate are going to go speargishing at point peron(landbased) 2 morrow moring, i ws just wondering what out there at the moment and would it be worth it to pick my cray licence b4 go? any help is appreciated and anyone who wants to come and join us feel free. thanks and any help would be apprecaited

Can anyone give me some info about spearfishing in the bottom of exmouth gulf? I have been told the reefs down there hold heaps of coral trout and plenty of crays. Can someone point me in the right area to find the right ground?

thanks

Darryl

Thinking of heading up that way tomorrow. Anyone know if you are allowed to spear up there? Last I heard you weren't allowed in the lagoon, but whats the go with the surrounding areas?

If you are allowed, is there even anything around at the moment?

Planning on going for a spear during the day whilst it's hot and then fish for tailor in the arvo.

Well, got back from Shark Bay not long ago and had an amazing time. We stayed at Tamala Station as Steep Point was booked out, but what a spot. Amazing scenery, nice and protected and swarming with tuskies and black snapper.

Explored lots of small islands, and there were fish on every one of them. As you can see we were blessed with good conditions too.

Also found some shark nurseries each with atleast 50 tiny little sharks in them, that was a very cool dive.

It was the first time the old man had even picked up a speargun let alone shot a fish and he did very well, we both knocked over some absolutely thumping blackspots and he had a blast once he got the re-loading sussed out.

Planning a trip to Steep in April but definitely keen to stop off at Tamala for a couple of days if we get the chance.

Great spot for anyone interested in fishing or spearing I guess, good for beginners to spearing because its all less than 5m. For those wanting to strecth the lungs we saw over 15m in the middle of the gulf but there were only pinkies and they were no take.

got this 110cm 22kg fella today bloody happy with it to!

Hi

Want to go spearfishing, never been before dont know what to do, where to go, what to use etc etc. Anyy info?

Many Thanks

Tom

Hey guys,

Just wondering if any spearos use the black immersion fins??  I'm looking to find out if anyone has had any problems with them.  I've got a pair and they have been a great fin for what I have needed and very comfortable however just recently they developed a white line just in front of the foot pocket (like a bend in plastic)  and they have now basically lost all their power!!

Has anyone else had the same issue??  How long should you get out of a pair of fins??  (yeh yeh I know it depends on how often you use them)  Has anyone heard of a bad batch?? I've just been told of another pair seen hanging out of a wheely bin with the same issue!!

Let me know. 

hey,

     i'm after a half decent speargun, at the moment ive got possibly the cheapest and defintly the crappest gun (mako) so was wondering if anyone has an old / quality gun cheap even if it needs a bit of a cleanup/rubbers, like the look of the wooden ones, all my spearing is free diving max depths only 5 metres

cheers

"FREEDOM 7" Shark repel units? I purchased a shark repel unit  recently and tested it out this week end, I am very confident that the unit works, had a 2m Bronzy come in and have a look, but it did not venture closer than 7 to 8 m from us. As people have said they tend to stay outside the shock zone, and don't hang around too long afterwards.

It would be interesting if other divers have tried this unit and share their experiences's or finding's with us. noticibly the rays and fish (Dhu) were not at all affected ata all the rass seamed to like bitting the trailing antenna.

I attached two small fishing floats to the antenna to keep the  it from snagging on the reef, It was absolutely no hassel diving with this unit. It gave me a great sence of security, but I still have some concern's as to the white pointers, and how they will react?? thats the million dollar question??

hey does anyone know what are some good reels for a rob allen tuna 800 railgun? i need to buy one soon before we go try get some spanish macks. any help appreciated

Hi guys hoping some of you might be able to help. I'm looking to get  into free diving(read snorkelling with the view to go deeper) I'm chasing mask snorkel finns and a weight belt. I have looked on Mares, Tusa, Cressi Sub websites, but  have no idea what I am looking for. I am  novice so wont be diving to great depths  say max 10m with the view to go deeper.  Any help will be greatly appreciated.

     Cheers

     Ben