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Last week I ventured to the other side of the country, the beautiful Exmouth of WA, to compete in the 2011 Australian Spearfishing Championships. The competition attracted some the top competitive divers from each State and as always I learned lots, laughed plenty and had an absolute blast. However, the actual competition heats proved extremely...

I opened my email last Monday, after a weekend of cold and dirty water with not much fish, to a few pictures from my friend John Hurlstone that reminded me of a time, before winter, when we could go out for a day and come back with an awesome haul of quality fish!The spearfishing in...

You read about the Bundaberg Skindivers Competition on on Thursday, now you can check out the first video filmed with my new Contour - enjoy!

It has been a busy couple of months with competitions! The Curtis Coast Skindivers Club (C.C.S.C) held a very successful interclub competition in August. Attended by 37 divers from various clubs on the East Coast, the 1770 competition went off without a hitch and was a great success for both divers and sponsoring businesses, including...

With a day off to spend in the blue office, Andrew and I headed for the top end of Moreton in near perfect conditions. We were greeted at the first dive spot with 40m vis. Diving a small patch of reef in 22m,we noticed a small school of Cobia following some black rays heading reef....

Lately in Cairns the Fishing gods have smiled upon us with some great breaks in the weather, allowing us to get to the outer reefs chasing bigger fish and dive in some very very clear water! We have managed to get Spanish averaging 10-12kgs almost everytime we have gone out with the biggest being 17kg....

Some more pictures from Fiji....[gallery link="file"]

Here is a short clip of shooting a small mulloway. note how the shaft becomes stuck in the barrel of the gun, this is an easy way to bend a spear.

Little video of shooting a mulloway. When shooting these fish along with many other species getting a good holding shot is needed for that first run. Hitting a fish in the head and through the gill plates almost always holds the shot plus if aimed right will kill the fish quickly along with not putting...

Went for a quick swim this afternoon, good numbers of Australian Salmon ( not that bad when smoked) plus plenty of small jewfish mulloway in the range 4 - 10kg. nothing better than swimming in the murk and having a large grey nurse shark almost head but you either.Here is a short video of the...