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    Underwater hunting - pics

    I started spearfishing (freediving w/ snorkel, mask & flippers) about 13 years ago on a trip through C. America. I got back into it a few years ago and it's an awesome way to get your hunting fix in the off season!! We need more spearo's in BC... Here's a recent trip:

    The family had some plans near the coast, so I brought along the gear and decided to try to find my first ling. Drove all night on the red-eye express & awoke after a few hours of sleep to an awesome coast line shrouded in grey...sheets of rain & fog, but more importantly - the swells were still small & I had high hopes for visibility underwater!



    I headed out to the rocks that I had scouted on G-Earth & ran into a retired commercial fishing captain on the trail. We bs’d for a while & he figured the storm would break after noon. I trusted him & decided to catch some zzz’s, in the meantime.

    A few hours later, I awoke to the calm after the storm, just as that old sea dog predicted! After a steep climb down the rocks I slipped in... Although I’d never dove in ling habitat before, I grew up in the water, was a lifeguard & have been spearin’ for ~13 years. It was a cool new aqua coloured world w/ 20’ of vis!.. kelp, jellies, bait fish, seals & lions barking in the distance. I worked the rocks for a few hours, shot a few meals and got a feel for the habitat & the fishy spots within the kelp forest…



    Near the end of my dive, I started to find the ling lying in ambush at the bases of the thick kelp & bumped a couple that quickly disappeared into the forest & endless caves in the rocks. Hunting them is similar to still hunting whitetails through the thick bush. I was psyched that I’d at least found one!



    Back in town I hooked up w/ some spearos that I knew from another board. They were awesome guys & turned out to be even better spearos. We drank a few beers, told some lies and planned to head out in the morning on their boat to some islands… (continued)
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    Re: Underwater hunting - pics

    Nice action and cool pix, where were you diving?
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    Re: Underwater hunting - pics

    Now thats cool. Please post some more pics when you get the chance. I could see myself doing this one day?

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    Re: Underwater hunting - pics

    This is the coolest thread in a long time!!

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    Re: Underwater hunting - pics

    hey,,that fish has a divers knife in his head!!,,,and a spear through his gills i think he may be dead..lol
    cool pics!!

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    Re: Underwater hunting - pics

    Awesome thread. Looks like a lot of fun!
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    Re: Underwater hunting - pics

    Really unique and distinctive. Its hunting to me not fishing lol. You just shot him with an underwater bow. Very cool. +1 for coolest thread in a while
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    Re: Underwater hunting - pics

    I can't wait to hear the rest. Great story.
    It sounds like a blast.
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    Re: Underwater hunting - pics

    Cool pics. West coast of the Island? I used to spearfish too using scuba gear. Awesome fun. Once a big octopus grabbed my speargun which I had set down so I could take some pics. Quite the tug of war to get it back.

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    Re: Underwater hunting - pics

    Great pics!! I love underwater shots, another member here is a free diver had the greatest pics, but I think he got married or something........What was his name um Colon.
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