Went out spear fishing yesterday with Catherine, Pat , Albie and Gabi. The weather forecast is showing that winds are going to pick up and blow for at least a week, so we figured we better get out there while the weather was good. Visibility ranged from 50-80 feet, there was even good vis in hawks channel, which almost made me want to stay inshore and scour the patch reefs, but since we all have fish still in the freezer from last week we headed out to the drop off in hopes for something big and photogenic.
It was pretty much perfect conditions, except for the current being opposite the wind, both were light but the boat still wanted to creep away on drifts. We shot some barracudas and jacks in the shallows and headed out deeper. On one drift while I was realigning the boat Albie started yelling there was a big Black under him. I told him to wait right there, and I will be over to shoot it for him. He didn’t wait though and got a head shot on it, it still managed to rock up hard. It took at least half hour or more to get him out.
After that we drifted in the deeper water from 80-200 feet chumming, and got nada. I saw some small kingfish and Albie saw some small dolphins but that was it. Also saw this squid.
Oh yeah we also picked up a danforth anchor on the reef.
