62kg Wahoo one day, 109kg Dogtooth tuna the next ...

[Phantom Menace]

A mate of mine went to Tahiti for last week and this is what he managed ...


Pics a but small - but both fish are pending world records ...

Here is a video of the doggie coming on to the boat:
[video=youtube_share;MfEmif0mV8I]http://youtu.be/MfEmif0mV8I[/video]

 

[Sam Miller III]

A big congratulations to your "Mate?" FYI in the US a mate is a wife, he appears to be a husband type.

At last a true fish appears on this board! To a true fisherman IF you can lift the fish it is bait, IF you can not lift the fish it is a FISH and your mate spears two great FISH ==and one a world record!

It would be appreciated if you would identify the type of gun used as well as the rigging, which appears to be a trail line with two floats of unknown manufacture.

FYI and others you might enjoy reading about the great Art Pender "the King of sling" and buried in the post are a few fish I managed to stick many (many many) moons ago

http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/passings/473572-art-pinder-spearfishing-legend-king-sling.html

Once again "A big congratulations to your mate for two fish well speared,

SDM

 

[Phantom Menace]

well I am in NZ where a mate is someone you consider a friend and, generally, do sports stuff with. John Pengelly is the mate in who shot the fish - we are both members of the Auckland Freediving Club. John used an Aimrite King Venom 140 cm gun. The orange float will be a Riffe 2atm float. I am not sure about the rest of the rigging but there will have been multiple floats, and a stretchy float line involved.

Both fish are (pending) world records.

The Wahoo was shot at 10m and the dogtooth at 28m. (No tanks involved)

john is is not back in the country yet but I think both fish may have been captured on video.

 

[Phantom Menace]

Johns world records have been confirmed - he is now the holder of two of the most sort after spearfishing world records.

 

[vincent54]

Awesome and congratulations. Cheers