The search for new spots and a monster blue.
Went on another adventure with 2 mates this weekend to another remote piece of coast after some blues, kingys or boarfish on top of our wish list. Finished work on Friday and drove 2 hours out to our spot and set up camp for the night. Woke up nice and early and jumped in the wetsuits for a morning dive. Did very well with 5 queenys up to 95cm, 2 grouper up to 17kg and a nice boarfish and fox fish to top it off with some ok vis in mostly 14-18m of water off the rocks with a few deeper ledges. Had a spear pull on a nice blue right on the bottom in 22m and bent my spear a bit but we still got plenty. Went for an arvo dive and came face to face with a 30kg+ blue in a cave but couldn't get a good shot on it before it took off and the water had started to get dirty so we headed home early. 
Woke up late today and went to have a look at another new spot, not many fish around just a few blues and little queenys until we found some lumps out deeper that my mate got a 90cm queeny off and I went a bit deeper and was looking at a big black shape right on the bottom in the sand on the edge of my vis, ended up being a 25kg blue and my first monster from my deepest dive of 25m!!! So happy with it, only wanted one big one so no more for me I'll stick to the little ones from now on. No more diving for a few weeks for me and a good way to finish off my spear that is now looking more like a U shape than a straight piece of steel haha
always looking for a new challenge!!
Jorie
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nice fish gotta be happy
nice fish gotta be happy with fish like those shame about the big one taking off
big john
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You've got the south coast spearing scene wired Chris!
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woody
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You boys are crazy bastards!!
You boys are crazy bastards!! Well done yet again.
jigsaw
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can I ask
2 hours east or west of Albany, roughly? Great catches. Whats the boarfish like on the tooth?
Chris fish
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Boarfish are one of the
Boarfish are one of the nicest tasting fish I've eaten but not very common in shallow water and line fisherman very rarely see them because of there tiny mouths and that they usually like deep water.
always looking for a new challenge!!
Chris fish
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Yeah it's good when there is
Yeah it's good when there is enough different spots that we can get a decent feed each trip. We are trying to have enough spots so we don't have to dive the same place for at least a few months so we aren't fishing out the reefs to badly and what we shoot is always about a tenth of what we actually see. . was roughly 2 hours drive east including a very long 4x4 along a beach to a rocky headland then a 20 min walk with all our gear to the beach we started at on sat and we went to the other headland today. All up in 2 days and 3 dives we swam over 10km so not easy at all especially towing float lines with 20kg+ of fish on each.
always looking for a new challenge!!
Adam Gallash
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ballsy
Yeh you got a few brass nuts there Chris, bloody good effort.
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carnarvonite
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Boarfish
You can keep the others but give me the boarfish and foxfish any day
Boarfish along with baldchin and nannygai make up my top 3 eating fish with foxfish not far down the list.,
Well done on finding and proving a new spot.
Brock O
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Nice Shooting Guys
Top report, i like your idea with having a variaty of spots.
Good idea having the sticker along your gun, would help gauge the size of the fish before shooting, not that you have a size issue there!!