Over 100 lb AMberjack

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GringoJohn

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This was really really awesome. We got this doing a SCUBA / Spearfishing dive on my favorite bottom fishing spot. After this trip, I just bought 20 tanks and a ton of spearfishing equipment, after one trip I'm hooked! Check out this monster:

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and you ate all of it afterwards ? Or gave it to the starving poor when you returned to the port ? Or did you kill it just for 'sport' and to show how skilled you are with your ton of spearfishing equipment ?


Buy a decent camera instead. :mad:
 
The Amberjack here is awesome to eat, everybody on the boat took some home and then I also work with a drug rehab center here and all the extra fish goes to support them. I have never killed a fish for sport, and we release 95 percent of what we catch.
 
I am very happy to hear that, and apologise for any suggestion that you were killing purely for pleasure.
 
Yeah, and I know about the camera. The thing is, the non waterproof camera just last a couple of hours in the boat it seems like, and the waterproof cameras stink at pictures. It's like a catch 22. This camera was actually a fuji waterproof one, and the stills aren't great but at least it lasts more than a week. Sony need to make a water proof camera!
 
GringoJohn said:
The Amberjack here is awesome to eat, everybody on the boat took some home and then I also work with a drug rehab center here and all the extra fish goes to support them. I have never killed a fish for sport, and we release 95 percent of what we catch.
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WITH A GREAT BIG SPEAR WOUND?? come on who you trying to kid??
 
GringoJohn said:
We fileted it and ate it. The spear doesn't even ruin any meat, and is very similar to using the gaff when you catch one on rod and reel. I'm going to take a shot in the dark and say you don't fish... (and are probably a vegan...)
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Been fishing for more years than I care to remember, but with rod and line, deffo not averse to eating my catch either, but I refuse to join them in the water, come over to the UK and see how you would be able to survive. Stopped using a gaff years ago, landing net allows release without damage.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnR6eFTtDXo&feature=player_detailpage
 
We don't even use a net when we are going to release, obviously don't gaff fish we are going to release either. We can lift them out of the water by the tail, it does less damage..

You're right, it would be hard to spearfish where the water is cold! :eek:
 
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