Headed out from Raglan with Sam

The result



Great day. Had a shot lined up on the fourth dive down but left it. Then about 30 minutes later was schooled by about 20 of which this wasn't the largest but I had a good angle and got him with a sweet shot. Just under the 12kg mark. My Personal Best.

Then later when drifting beside the boat along the reef I had a line tangle with my stringer but decided it wasn't worth the effort so was looking around and saw an absolute monster (I thought it must be a shark at that size) so dropped down and saw a yellow tail on a massive kingiiee and as I lined up what I had little doubt would have been high 30's kg beast If not far more (compared to what I had speared earlier it was enormous and fat) then had second thoughts with a tangle rubbing beside my arm and tugging on my suit and at 8-10m thoughts of being dragged down so past up what would have been at best an average shot with a poor angle. 10 minutes later I saw another big shadow and when I dropped down I got close thinking this fish will be even bigger. and it was. A shark as long as me rubbing up the flasher rig. I thought since it was my first shark I have encountered and due to its size I'd peek out but I watched it for a little before returning to the boat and calling it a day.

Big thanks to Sam for taking me out.

good stuff man good your getting some good fish now. good xmas steaks

Nice fish, sounds like a good day out. Kudos for not taking the 50-50 shots, what kind of shark did you see and how clean was it out there?

Looking for someone to help recover a very sentimental ring in the water at Raglan. A metal detector can be arranged. Contact me asap.

Ian