My week off diving the south coast.

 After a lot of anticipation about my week of R&R and getting wet I was finally on the plane home!!

first day I was off to windy harbour for a boat dive and to pick up my new dive gear and test it out. Wind was a problem but vis was good and we managed a good feed in the few hours we where out with a nice blue for my mate about 14kg and I got to shoot my new gun and got my first boarfish.

The next day I was back in Albany and went for a quick shore dive at a spot that has always served me well, 30mins in the water and we had our 2 blues with me getting a nice one at about 13kg and Toby a small one about 6kg

finaly Friday morning came around and 4 of us where up early to head off to a spot I had been looking at for months. A crazy 4x4 to get into the spot and almost 2 hour trip from town to a very isolated piece of coast that I was sure would hold some insane fish. We got to the spot suited up and jumped in and almost straight away a nice boarfish was sitting right in front of me. First fish on the float line and this was looking great!! Worked our way to the deeper water and spent the day working 12-18m and the plate coral reefs with just fish everywhere I looked!!! Grouper, queenies, bonito, sambos, salmon, big skippy, boarfish, harelquin and other reef fish just apearing everywhere in the great vis!!

At the end of the day our haul was 5 boarfish, 4 queenies, 3 harlequin, 2 fox fish, 1 skippy 2 bonito and a breaksea kept with us being so fussy on what we took.

 

anyway that's enough out of me and here is some photos of the weeks efforts. 

Go pro is on its way so soon ill have some underwater action shots.

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carnarvonite's picture

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Tops

Sun, 2013-05-26 22:45

Some real quality eating amongst the catch

grantarctic1's picture

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Nice feed

Mon, 2013-05-27 12:24

Nice feed Chris , i didn't realise there were that many Boarfish down that  way .

Adam Gallash's picture

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slayed it

Mon, 2013-05-27 16:34

Now thats quality landbased spearing!  Well done Chris

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