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Hello everybody!! We are diving in New Caledonia. My name is Guillaume BRUNEAU and my teammate Nicolas PEREZ and Edward HARRAULT

We dived outside of lagoon, forty-five minutes From NOUMEA to spear some pelagic and other good fishes the 10th of December 2011. The weather was so cool. A weak wind between 5 – 8 knots and a weak swell. Everybody in the boat was so motivate and exciting. Of course Very good conditions for us.

Wetsuit this week:

This is the end of the winter, the water was warmer. The yellow fin tuna and mahi mahi’s season is coming; the temperature was between 26° C and 27° C and so nice.

We wore 3mm suit, it’s was absolutely enough.

3mm suit: cool enough for a hood and full suit

Visibility:

The visibility wasn’t bad but there were many particle.

25-50ft= Wooohoo!!! It’s good enough for anywhere.

Shark Factor:

there were sharks like hammerhead, dagsit, albimarginatus, obesus but We were lucky, it were just curious not exciting.

1- Might see one but nothing to worry about

Weapon of choice:

Best choice for me this day: RIFFE PADAUK 3 power bands

Best choice for Nicolas: RIFFE BLUE WATER 4 power bands

Best choice for Edward : RIFFE BAJA 3 power bands

Cannon: (130-Tuna gun)

Best Bets:

Our goal for this spear fishing day was speared something big for dinner !!

If you want to shoot something big this week hunt:

If you are just looking for dinner hunt:

There were some Wahoos during the diving, but small wahoos and some of them was shy and it was difficult to approach this fishes.

In order to attract them, we threw in the water some pieces of fishes with patience and motivation my friend Edward speared a Wahoo of 12 Kgs (= 26 Lb) nice shot and nice fight with the fish.

And later a big Spanish mackerel over 22 Kg (= 48 Lb) came into the pieces of fishes very excited and starved.

So my friend Nicolas swam to him slowly and the mackerel let him to approach it so close… WOAW!!

He shot it and land it so easily at the beginning!! But the fish woke up and fought with Nico while a long time. When Nico caught the fish in his arms, the size of the mackerel was impressive! Nice fish!

Later, Nico and Edward return to the boat while me, I stayed in the blue water with a friend and I continued to cut some pieces of fishes with hope to make my own pelagic. I was there, seeing the fishes’ pieces flowing to the depths. And a moment, I felt a presence in my back, so I turned my self…

Surprising!! a pretty good Mahi mahi very curious came to see so close to me with beautiful colors… I shot it and land it so easily No fight and a good shot, I was so happy!!

So everybody in the boat was glad, it was a nice and cool spearfishing trip.

It’s the kind of day we can’t forget

BWH : Nicolas PEREZ Spanish Mackerel (over 22 Kg = 48 Lb)

BWH : Guillaume BRUNEAU Mahi Mahi (over 8 Kg = 20 Lb)

BWH: Edward HARRAULT wahoo (over 12 Kg = 26 Lb )

By Guillaume BRUNEAU, Nicolas Perez and New Caledonia Blue Water Hunter Team