Speargun reel malfunction is never fun, at 24 meters it can be catastrophic. I may have to chose between my gun and my life.
So, I encounter the first school of yellowtail of the season. I’m at 24 meters, not an exceptional freediving dept, but then it depends what you have to do at 24 meters. My problem, one that can plagues all spearfishermen using reels, is that my reel line was tangled at the tip of my speargun. I let you see what happens.
Large school of mobulas (munk’s devil rays or mobula munkiana) are all over the place. It’s rare I don’t cross one when I go spearfishing in Baja. A school of 50 pound plus roosterfish is not so frequent. They are not a fish we shoot while spearfishing. Well we don’t typically shoot trashy fish like roosterfish. Some newbie spearfishermen cannot resist, but they learn fast after trying to eat one.
