Most days are slow days during winter in Baja. The fishing is difficult, deep and the water is cold. People showing up during the winter are shocked by how challenging it can be. I’ll shoot fish but I have to work for them. Fortunately, there are some fish that stick around. One of them is… Read More »
When it comes to Cuberas, you don’t have much time to shoot when they are outside of their holes. It’s a quick draw game. Otherwise you have to follow them to see where they will hole-up and hope it’s not in a maze of boulders with 1000 exits, which is exactly what I was dealing… Read More »
Yesterday I shot a 31 pound yellowtail from the bottom and it took 30 meters of reel line before I reached the surface. It swam all over the place in the rocks and it took me 15 minutes to get to the fish. By that time three morey eels were eating its guts. I was… Read More »
Je viens d’apprendre que je ne peux plus retourner au Canada! Ca tombe bien, je n’étais pas chaud à l’idée des couvre-feux et de l’interdiction de voyager. 🤣 A Baja, la vie normale suit son cour. Évidemment il y a des cas de covid mais personne ne panique. À La Paz, où je suis, ce… Read More »
Channel catfish is my new favorite freshwater fish! The channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus) are found in heavy current and most divers and spearfishermen have rarely even seen this type of catfish. It’s called “barbu” in Québec and here is the government chart for the fish : https://mffp.gouv.qc.ca/faune/peche/poissons/barbue.jsp To be honest, it’s barely “spearfishable”. You may… Read More »
There it is! I made a roller speargun with clothe-line rollers and a 5$ cedar plank, and it shoots great!
For years, I waited for a side by side comparison of rollers vs standard spearguns. Oddly, there were none. So I made a roller and now we have a comparison.
Shot this yellowtail at 23 meters near La Paz. I was fishing with my 130 with two bands and a 7.5 mm tahitian shaft. After landing this fish I started using a slip tip. Given the power of those monsters, I didn’t trust my ability to always get a good shot. It took forever to… Read More »
So I was aiming for yellowtails. Since I had shot a 45 pounder recently, I used a slip tip on my 150 cm with 3 * 16 mm bands at 3.5 (very stiff considering the lenght). The shaft was a 7.5mm and the slip tip was a Spear Master (so was the shaft, I love… Read More »
This is my largest yellowtail yet. I couldn’t grab its tail, too large… so I improvised.