Sodwana/ Bait Bomb

I was up at sodwana this weekend.
Conditions were excellent with great vis 20m+, there was a reverse current going, which was fairly strong. Fish wise it was quiet, we only saw a few kakaap. The kakaap we managed to shoot, half were taken by potato bass. On almost every reef I went to I was 'shadowed' by one of them.
Some local guys got a few snoek at the Mapelane Lighthouse.


Other than that Colin Gray is making a few bait bombs/chum boxes for a few local spearos. Ive dived with Colin using the chum box and it works really well depositing bits of chum on each swell movement and obviously bringing in the gamefish. Its quite easy to use, just bomb your broken up bait in the top and connect to a bouy.
Contact Colin if you are interested at 0824408681
Chains and connections arent shown in the diagram which connect to the bouy line.

Dive Training Session

Hi Guys

I spoke to Fernando from Centurion Freedivers, about the possibility of having a Dive Training Session here in Richards Bay.
I went to one of Fernando's training sessions Peter van Wyk organised in Durban about a year ago, and it was really helpful, opened my eyes up to a few things about the body and its capabilities. Everyone increased their static breathhold time safely. I added a good 30 plus seconds onto my breathhold.

It will cost R150 per person, and we will need a minimum of 10 people to make it feasable for Fernando to come down to Richards Bay from JHB.
If you guys are interested, let me know.

Check out this link on one of Fernandos Courses down in Salt Rock.
Training session

Cheers
Warren

Vidal Conditions

I was at Vidal on saturday. Hardly any fish came out. The water was really warm 28.8 degrees perhaps that is why the fish were scarce. The water was clean though.

I will be heading up to Sodwana this coming weekend.

Vidal Conditions

Vidal seems to be the only place where the water has been clean enough. I heard Billy MacCarthy got some snoek on Thursday and Koos got some couta and snoek on Friday. I thought I would get down there and get in the action, as my luck would have it, the water was pea soup! The dirty water seemed to be coming from St.Lucia. Even out at Deep Oscars it was dirty. The sea was like a lake and not a drop of wind, we fished and managed one Dorado. Everyone out there seemed to battle to get fish, although I heard one Marlin came out on the radio.

Cheers 

Warren

Speargun Rubber Lengths

Howzit

Got this off an Aussie website.
Its quite self-explanatory.

Short will give you maximum power, and
 If using double rubbers select your gun length but use the next largest diameter for the length of each rubber.

Otherwise I hear the conditions have been bad everywhere. I was itching for a dive on the weekend, and phoned literally everyone hoping for some good news regarding the water visibility. There is hope though....I see the south wind is blowing and maybe that will clean the water enough for a dive by Wednesday or Thursday.