A beginner's experience

[Granitu]

peprina pm me i know a place from where i get down to spearfish from gnejna, i see loads of parrot fish in the area, i tell you where exactly with a photo

all u need is grounding bait and hniex tal korea or gambli

[Kevin G]

yesterday while spearfishing at gnejna saw about 50 small parrot fish feeding with there mother.The mother probably weighing about half a kilo it was very nice but left it with family only 1 octopus caught.

Question for u granitu, I have a beauchat mask and I have a problem with it, (titapan hafna), I tried diferent methods that i was told like rubing sliced potato, rubing sea grass, rubing with saliva, but no luck.

What can I do?

Thanks.

[polidmar]

Kevin,

There are special drops you buy from any diveshop which are used to condition the glass .. after the first bottle most masks will be good enough with a couple of spits   Some people have found toothpaste as a good alternative.

Also make sure that you aren't sweating alot before you wear the mask coz otherwise the perspiration will condense with the mask since water temperature is lower than body temperature.

my 2 cents worth gudluck

[Granitu]

mm there is only i method which realy works

but you have to be really careful. use a lighter and lightly!!!!!!!(keep the flame 4-5cm away from mask... you need only heat) burn the excess silicone, both lenses... you should see it burning

after this treatment, you need to treat the rubber. i suggest that you fill a container with hot(not boiling) water added with washing detergent(sapun tal platti) and leave it overnight

then give it try and see how it goes. but it works for me. or at least minimizes a lot the problem. ultimately use helps to reduce it, and washing the mask beforehand with sea grass or spitting helps. beauchaut masks suffer this problem because of silicone


i go a lot from gnejna, if you have no buddy pm me and we can go together. sometimes i have no buddy with me although it is not really a concern for me because i love to do some depth


sorry but it is a little off topic, if skip wants to move/ delete, go on

[Kevin G]

I am still a biginer and when my family or friends go swiming I always take it with me, without any transport i cant go any where i want.

Thank you for the info I will try and let you know.

and sorry for skiping to another topic but I couldn't find how to start a new topic.

[Granitu]

by any chance, 2 sat ago you saw 2 as*h***** going down after the boat houses, it was us ta

[Kevin G]

no i wasn't there lol.

[shanook]

i used jif a well. wash it with jif and then rinse it well. It retains a bit of ammonia smell but otherwise its ok. i prefare to use a type of grass and it usually stays clear.

[Kevin G]

Thanks to all.

[Peprina]

I got curious about the behaviour of the 'bobbin' in the shallow water at Gnejna and I looked up about it and about the behaviour of mullets. I found the scientific link below which has got a lot of interesting information on their behaviour which can give some useful hints on how to catch them.   

http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1679-62252007000100012&tlng=en&lng=en&nrm=iso

[SPITEC]

If you wanne catch the bobin from Gnejna.Go in the water till up your knees with a 4 or 5 meters pole.Use monofilament from 0.10 up to 0.14 a very small float and a small split shot at least 10cm away from the hook.The hook must be size 14 or 16.You better use bread for bait,just soak it in water but don't make it paste and hook small pieces of it or else you can use small pieces of shrimp but they must be cut very very small.When you see the float running pull up because many of the times you will see the float running on the surface and not go under water.Most important please catch and release because the ones that you find at Gnejna are very small not even 15cm.

[Peprina]

Actually there was a school of slightly larger ones when I was there besides the very small ones. However I think it was just worth studying their behaviour, the way they swim together and then all dash for the bread. And they reach their goal of confusing any predators.

Last night I went to St Thomas' Bay, Marsascala. The water was beautifully clear. And I spent the night on a boat, my family and my brother's family. Sure I was eager to wake up early and fish at sunrise. As it turned out, I didn't need to wake up: I remained awake all night! I can still feel everything bobbing up and down. It was windy last night. I did fish early but there was only cawl around. In fact a couple of fishermen came on their boats, spent some time and left. So it's not my bad fishing. Till now I have never been successful on windy and choppy days. I wonder if that is a general trend or not. I've also read that damselfish are quite aggressive and they chase away even mullets from their territory. But then for every aggressive creature, there is one more aggressive and I did observe the barracuda chase the cawl away!