given all the small fish there are an abundant amount of u.....m....larger fish. Rainbow runners 4ft, where normally when we go spearfishing oceaniside they are 2 ft (but more in a school). Dogtooth Tuna - Shaped like torpedoes they have the backteeth of a dog. So the dogtooth tuna and the rainbow runners are the goal for shooting, there are other predators there at the coral head ( read - the bottom half of a pine tree underwater starting at about 15 ft going down to 120 ft, but mostly the fish in the dawn and dusk hours hang out at around 30 ft.....but will come up to 20 ft if they are given incentive (read lure - read inside of a frito bag glued to a venetian blind cut into the shape of a fish kinda -very shiny)the problem is the sharks. Most of them aren't more than 5 ft long, but some are a bit longer. I'm not sure why the bigger ones are more scary, other than the rule of the fish world seems to be that the bigger you are the scarier you are. Sharks up to 6ft can easily be scared away. Sharks in general though don't act very scared of humans. You can yell at them underwater and they turn away.
Yea...so the problem is the sharks...too many of them. You can dive deep and shoot a fish ...read ...rainbow runner or better yet dogtooth tuna....at around 35ft but you get all the (15 or so or more) sharks all fired up. So before you get back to the surface you basically shit your pants. NOT because the sharks will eat you, but because they want your fish. The deal is...the fear is ...there are so many of them that ..well the whole frenzie thing...they go bezerk. They move so slowly most the time you see them you forget how fast they can be...until you spear a fish.
