I have done Plenty of Fishing![]()
I have done Plenty of Fishing![]()
I've done fishing with a fishing rod, and with a speargun.
With a fishing rod, you get to stand there holding the damn thing, waiting for fish to come bite the lure/ hook. With a speargun, you get underwater and go get the fish you want. Meanwhile, you get in a good bit of exercise. I guess it depends on where you're at. If you're in a freezing cold lake with zero visibility, I guess fly fishing is the way to go. Best to go with a buddy, so you can talk about stuff.... or just enjoy the scenery. However, if you're in tropical ocean waters with 50-foot+ visibility, screw the fishing rod. I'll just dive and get me some snapper or grouper. Maybe even a lobster or two while I'm at it.
Now deep sea fishing... that's something else. You go a mile or so offshore and strap yourself in a chair and do battle with a marlin or something of that nature... that sounds a bit more exciting than lake fishing. But this usually is more about the trophy than about eating the fish.
A mate of mine dives hes older than me probably given up now but we were talking about sharks cause of me surfing and him fishing via scuba gear. At a place called sth Walkerville here where we surf he recons he was in the water with a bag of fish off a rope connected to the buoy he was standing on the bottom of a sand hil thats underwater the same one we surf around. He recons the water shifted in his vicinity and he turned to the deep and an eye the size of a tea cup cruised past checking him out and thirty feet of great white behind it kept coming to look at him as he was frozen to the spot. He had a power head on spear and thought about going for it with a prod but got the feeling this thing may just go off the dial so slowly backed out up the hill into the shallows. The next week or so he was out a hundred miles further down the coast and went to prod a small shark in the head with it and it was a dud!
Lucky escape the week before.
He was just the other side of those rocks the fishermen are standing on.In the deep just behind that patch of rock you see in the water there with sand all around it.
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Last edited by Andre; 10-26-2014 at 01:36 AM.
Sharks are the one thing I've never run into while snorkeling or scuba diving. Good thing, too. Blood might not be the only thing sharks can smell in the water.
Seriously, though... meeting up with a shark while dragging a bag full of fish can't be very pleasant. My dad used to dive and had that experience more than once. But I can't say I have. Good thing we don't have great whites around these parts. Reef sharks, tiger sharks, and a few more species... but no great whites.
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