Personal best Galjoen

Mark Jackson gave me a call on Monday and again on Tuesday with a water report on a favourite spot of mine. On Monday, Mark commented that Tuesday would be good as the water had great potential to clear by Tuesday.

My cellphone rang on Tuesday at about 1pm. Mark says that the water is flat, clear and it is paradise. I leave the office and get my gear and am in the water at 3pm. A good afternoons spearfishing and a personal best to show for it.

The water was cool, but there was plenty of fish, often not the prize fish. Bronze bream were around in hordes with other scraps. Unfortunately no baardman - which I expected to encounter.

Mark had suggested that the dive window of opportunity was small and would last for the Tuesday afternoon only. He was right. When I reached the shore the westerly had started to whip the water and a surface chop was evident.

Galjoen - just under 50cms. Weight 2.48 kilograms - gutted. SA Spearfishing record 5.2kilograms.

Anyone in Cape Town have a good recipe for me to do this fish on the coals? Email me please or send me a link.

Thanks to Mark for the water report - much appreciated.

Click photographs to enlarge.