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Luckily for me GR, Craig, Troy and MArk all got here a day before i did and worked out some of the kinks. We had to deal with finding enough place for everyone to sleep and now it looks like a halfway house with everyone on the floor of the place and about 20 guns strewn about every available inch of space left.

Mark started strong by getting his backpack ripped off losing his laptop, underwater camera and all his money. I followed by having the airlines painfully take my bags off right in front of me minutes before we left the ground in Guam.
So that sucks….

Day one
We’re met with 20 knot winds and can’t reach the honey hole that I really wanted to hunt while we were here…
WE hammer it out into the wind to make due at our “back up spot” which is closer to the island and one of the sharkiest places I’ve had to dive in the past.

I leave all my guns in the room to concentrate on filming and its a good thing since we all feel like ass after having travelled for three days straight and feeling the effects.
First spot, hop in and I follow Healey who quickly sorts out the bottom contours and positions above the best looking spot.
WE should use float lines and bungeys
About an hour in we are both feeling like crap and after seeing some small dogtooth tuna at around 100 ft we’re drifting and in comes a monster.
When the big ones come in you can tell because they look like a dinosaur with all kinds of scars on the face and a body like a 55 gallon drum.
I could see about .0005 seconds of hesitation and cursing going on in Marks head as he realized the 130 Riffe Euro with a reel in his hands was a lot less than he needed.
Ahhhhhhhhh!!!!!
OF course he took the shot and I hauled ass to the surface as soon as I saw him lining up on it.
The 150 lb Dogtooth turned about 15 feet out and he drilled him just behind the pectoral fin and Heals started pumping for the surface..
A big head shake and the fish swims about 20 feet and I think that we might have a chance at landing him with just a reel and 200 ft of line but…
No way.
The fish hauls ass north towards Japan and mark towards the surface and with 50 feet to go the line comes tight and the Gun is wrenched from Marks hands.
At least I got it all on video.
Painful as hell to lose not only the fish but also to keep wracking up the list of stuff he’s donated to the islands already!

Another drift and we see some more dogs and I “borrow” GR’s gun to to try a dive. As luck would have it a pair of small doggies come in and a 35 lb one takes one through the side and I haul him in from the surface while GR and Troy push the sharks off.
A bit later we see one in the 200 lb Range and some big Giant Trevally and Healey pulls off another shot on a 70 lb one that takes him in the rocks at 100ft and luckily pulls off so we don’t have a repeat.

The sounds from the whales and the sharks on the surface and all around us every time we pulled the trigger kept it interesting but today is when we are going to start really diving. We are a bit more rested. Everyone is amped and I can only imagine what we see out there today is going to be some of the best diving in the world.
Cameron Kirkconnell