Hi Guys,
I'm a wimp. I tried spear fishing last year and loved the hunt. But when the tau tog didn't die after I speared it and rammed my knife through its head I felt really guilty, in fact it swam off my knife and crawled away to die, but I found it again and got it into my keep bag which the poor thing valiantly tried to escape from (despite the fact that it's inards were also trying to escape from inside the fish). I admit it, I'd be a vegetarian if I had to kill for meat.
But having said that on a recent dive I was very close to a huge flounder (at least 2 feet in length) and I was sooo tempted to stick my knife in it. Afterall I do like to eat fish. BUT, here's the question...I want to kill the fish quickly, no swimming off my knife like the last one did. I know that for flat fish you need to have the knife perpendicular to the fishes spine otherwise they can swim away and cut themselves in half. I also realise that fish are pretty much like chickens in terms of not needing much of a brain to be alive. Any advice?
I'm a wimp. I tried spear fishing last year and loved the hunt. But when the tau tog didn't die after I speared it and rammed my knife through its head I felt really guilty, in fact it swam off my knife and crawled away to die, but I found it again and got it into my keep bag which the poor thing valiantly tried to escape from (despite the fact that it's inards were also trying to escape from inside the fish). I admit it, I'd be a vegetarian if I had to kill for meat.
But having said that on a recent dive I was very close to a huge flounder (at least 2 feet in length) and I was sooo tempted to stick my knife in it. Afterall I do like to eat fish. BUT, here's the question...I want to kill the fish quickly, no swimming off my knife like the last one did. I know that for flat fish you need to have the knife perpendicular to the fishes spine otherwise they can swim away and cut themselves in half. I also realise that fish are pretty much like chickens in terms of not needing much of a brain to be alive. Any advice?