The beauty is still here, reporting it has taken a toll on my enjoying it ....

So ...the spearfishing thing.  Atolls are supposedly the top of ancient volcanoes.  This Kwajalein Atoll holds the largest lagoon in the world.  Meaning the largest ancient volcanic opening.  Nothing would let you think the word ..volcano when you're out here in the "lagoon he winds have been blowing the opposite of the normal direction for about a month now....so it's made us go spearfishing in places we've not gone before.  One of these places is a completely active - meaning tens of thousands of fish - mostly small - around 8 or 9 inches long ..coral head inside the lagoon.  Its a special spot for scuba divers out here because of all the fish.  Its' the place with the most fish in one spot I've ever seen out here, oceanside or lagoon.
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.

So Liz and I are there at this shark loaded coral head.  I tell her, because well we normally have Mike and his wife Kristen with us and have this plan-mostly unspoken- from other places that the person that shoots the fish gets the fish out of water ...swimming back to the boat with the fish and spear out of the water slightly and the others fend off the sharks.

Its better when there are more people and less sharks.  So the other day it was only Liz and I.  I told her that its not so bad for the person who shoots the fish as it is the person who has to find off the sharks.  Even joked that a garbage can lid and a stick would work nicely.

Heeding my advice, I make sure I shoot the first fish in the most densely shark ...ok ...fish populated spot on the atoll.  Trust me, it wasn't instantaneous.  We were there for 2 hours both afraid to begin the frenzy.  We both chased dogtooth and the huge rainbow runners down at 40 ft.  2 ft from the ends of our guns but too afraid to pull the trigger because at 40 ft it takes too long to get back to the surface and we knew the sharks would be too much.  So I shot a little rainbow runner near the surface.

I assumed the plan was that we would both get in the boat and pull the fish in. My spear gun has a reel attached to the spear.  I shoot a little rainbow runner 10lb and let go of the gun holding on to the line and head ass to the boat....I assume Liz is too.  Knowing how the sharks respond I'm practically launched into the boat.  As I'm pulling the line into the boat...I'm looking for her, and for a few seconds...nothing...then...all of the sudden my spear with my fish...and Liz

She went with the old plan...where you scare off the sharks.....it was the wrong plan ...but it worked......

we need to talk about our plans before  the whole ….yea I got this scar from....

Its better when there are more people in sketchy situations....but Mike an Kristen were off island

Mon 10:03 PM

Jason

I’ll do my fishing from inside the boat!!! I kinda like being on top of the food chain!!!

7:50 PM

well ….at least here....even in the water we are top of the food chain.  We're bigger.  Fish seem to go by size.  I'm going to go with that ..

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So Liz and I are there at this shark loaded coral head.  I tell her, because well we normally have Mike and his wife Kristen with us and have this plan-mostly unspoken- from other places that the person that shoots the fish gets the fish out of water ...swimming back to the boat with the fish and spear out of the water slightly and the others fend off the sharks.

Its better when there are more people and less sharks.  So the other day it was only Liz and I.  I told her that its not so bad for the person who shoots the fish as it is the person who has to find off the sharks.  Even joked that a garbage can lid and a stick would work nicely.

Heeding my advice, I make sure I shoot the first fish in the most densely shark ...ok ...fish populated spot on the atoll.  Trust me, it wasn't instantaneous.  We were there for 2 hours both afraid to begin the frenzy.  We both chased dogtooth and the huge rainbow runners down at 40 ft.  2 ft from the ends of our guns but too afraid to pull the trigger because at 40 ft it takes too long to get back to the surface and we knew the sharks would be too much.  So I shot a little rainbow runner near the surface.

I assumed the plan was that we would both get in the boat and pull the fish in. My spear gun has a reel attached to the spear.  I shoot a little rainbow runner 10lb and let go of the gun holding on to the line and head ass to the boat....I assume Liz is too.  Knowing how the sharks respond I'm practically launched into the boat.  As I'm pulling the line into the boat...I'm looking for her, and for a few seconds...nothing...then...all of the sudden my spear with my fish...and Liz

She went with the old plan...where you scare off the sharks.....it was the wrong plan ...but it worked......

we need to talk about our plans before  the whole ….yea I got this scar from....

Its better when there are more people in sketchy situations....but Mike an Kristen were off island

Mon 10:03 PM

Jason

I’ll do my fishing from inside the boat!!! I kinda like being on top of the food chain!!!

7:50 PM

well ….at least here....even in the water we are top of the food chain.  We're bigger.  Fish seem to go by size.  I'm going to go with that ..

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but they don't seem to mind checking you out casually - read - with no fish on your spear - within 4ft or so as long as you're not confronting them.  If you have speared a fish....well that is a different story.  It is also the problem with going to that coral head I've been trying to talk about.  The place is full of sharks.  Full- meaning - the more sharks per square whatever in one place than I've ever seen out here.

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.

So Liz and I are there at this shark loaded coral head.  I tell her, because well we normally have Mike and his wife Kristen with us and have this plan-mostly unspoken- from other places that the person that shoots the fish gets the fish out of water ...swimming back to the boat with the fish and spear out of the water slightly and the others fend off the sharks.

Its better when there are more people and less sharks.  So the other day it was only Liz and I.  I told her that its not so bad for the person who shoots the fish as it is the person who has to find off the sharks.  Even joked that a garbage can lid and a stick would work nicely.

Heeding my advice, I make sure I shoot the first fish in the most densely shark ...ok ...fish populated spot on the atoll.  Trust me, it wasn't instantaneous.  We were there for 2 hours both afraid to begin the frenzy.  We both chased dogtooth and the huge rainbow runners down at 40 ft.  2 ft from the ends of our guns but too afraid to pull the trigger because at 40 ft it takes too long to get back to the surface and we knew the sharks would be too much.  So I shot a little rainbow runner near the surface.

I assumed the plan was that we would both get in the boat and pull the fish in. My spear gun has a reel attached to the spear.  I shoot a little rainbow runner 10lb and let go of the gun holding on to the line and head ass to the boat....I assume Liz is too.  Knowing how the sharks respond I'm practically launched into the boat.  As I'm pulling the line into the boat...I'm looking for her, and for a few seconds...nothing...then...all of the sudden my spear with my fish...and Liz

She went with the old plan...where you scare off the sharks.....it was the wrong plan ...but it worked......

we need to talk about our plans before  the whole ….yea I got this scar from....

Its better when there are more people in sketchy situations....but Mike an Kristen were off island

Mon 10:03 PM

Jason

I’ll do my fishing from inside the boat!!! I kinda like being on top of the food chain!!!

7:50 PM

well ….at least here....even in the water we are top of the food chain.  We're bigger.  Fish seem to go by size.  I'm going to go with that ..

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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.

but they don't seem to mind checking you out casually - read - with no fish on your spear - within 4ft or so as long as you're not confronting them.  If you have speared a fish....well that is a different story.  It is also the problem with going to that coral head I've been trying to talk about.  The place is full of sharks.  Full- meaning - the more sharks per square whatever in one place than I've ever seen out here.

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.

So Liz and I are there at this shark loaded coral head.  I tell her, because well we normally have Mike and his wife Kristen with us and have this plan-mostly unspoken- from other places that the person that shoots the fish gets the fish out of water ...swimming back to the boat with the fish and spear out of the water slightly and the others fend off the sharks.

Its better when there are more people and less sharks.  So the other day it was only Liz and I.  I told her that its not so bad for the person who shoots the fish as it is the person who has to find off the sharks.  Even joked that a garbage can lid and a stick would work nicely.

Heeding my advice, I make sure I shoot the first fish in the most densely shark ...ok ...fish populated spot on the atoll.  Trust me, it wasn't instantaneous.  We were there for 2 hours both afraid to begin the frenzy.  We both chased dogtooth and the huge rainbow runners down at 40 ft.  2 ft from the ends of our guns but too afraid to pull the trigger because at 40 ft it takes too long to get back to the surface and we knew the sharks would be too much.  So I shot a little rainbow runner near the surface.

I assumed the plan was that we would both get in the boat and pull the fish in. My spear gun has a reel attached to the spear.  I shoot a little rainbow runner 10lb and let go of the gun holding on to the line and head ass to the boat....I assume Liz is too.  Knowing how the sharks respond I'm practically launched into the boat.  As I'm pulling the line into the boat...I'm looking for her, and for a few seconds...nothing...then...all of the sudden my spear with my fish...and Liz

She went with the old plan...where you scare off the sharks.....it was the wrong plan ...but it worked......

we need to talk about our plans before  the whole ….yea I got this scar from....

Its better when there are more people in sketchy situations....but Mike an Kristen were off island

Mon 10:03 PM

Jason

I’ll do my fishing from inside the boat!!! I kinda like being on top of the food chain!!!

7:50 PM

well ….at least here....even in the water we are top of the food chain.  We're bigger.  Fish seem to go by size.  I'm going to go with that ..

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