My Catches!

[baghira]

ohhhhh so much octopus??? Don't you get bored?? Only octopuses.. Still amazing though how you succeed in all those catches// Some kind of octofinder.

[148148]

are you trapping or using pipes?

[baghira]

good question 148148. Maybe he has some hidden 'tricks'

[148148]

dynamite laced with poison

[Arti2]

I do not use any special techniques. I just go for them when I go spearfishing. When you get used to the places you go for them, then you know where to search for more next time. With the experience I gathered in years my instinct tells me where to find them. Another thing is to use some 'friends' like the painted comber and wrasses which show you where the octopus is. One more thing is the holes they build with stones and crab left-overs they leave behind.

Ma nuzax xi teknika specjali. Immur ghalihom meta immur bil-harpoon. Meta tidra l-postijiet, tkun taf fejn trid tfittex id-darba ta' wara. Fuq esperjenza ta' snin li ghandi l-istint jghidli fejn infittex. L-brieqex u xi hut iehor jghinuk hafna taghraf fejn hu l-qarnit. Haga ohra huma l-bejtiet li jaghmlu u fdalijiet ta' granci u ikel li jhallu warajhom.

[Arti2]

ohhhhh so much octopus??? Don't you get bored?? Only octopuses.. Still amazing though how you succeed in all those catches// Some kind of octofinder.

When it is a good season I get some kind  of bored. But I catch them all year round. I prefer fish. And in past pictures I posted I had a few catches where I caught some fish. But today there are people hunting fish are know places for fish. I am better with octopus so..

[baghira]

If it is so, well many compliments.
To tell you the truth, I gather not much satisfaction with octopus catch (maybe you know what I mean), I get rather bored searching for them, and after I find a couple of empty holes, I give up.
You still amaze me, although my story is different. I try the more spearfishing places I can, and as regards fish, this helps, but as regards octopus, if you always go same places, as you said you get more acquainted with the hidings.

Even though I have to admit that at the end of the day, when I look in the freezer I loook more for an ocoptus to cook, since that I am not such a fish eating lover, (funny huh).

[mellieha]

Guys it always amazes me that fish tend to love the same places.  I do not know why.  They seem to be always in the same spot even if you caught his uncle, brother or nephew some days before.

I can recall my experience with ''Sicc''.  There is a particular spot from where it always produces sicc and if I do not catch at least one from thi spot I can row all the north side for nothing.  This theory rarely fails.   No scientific evidential base but purely statistically.

[Granitu]

melieha, at times there are spots where fish find food, are a strategic shelter against predators, no mystery if they hang around near these places

[Arti2]

There are places where there are currents and fish like that place for such currents in the water. As for octopus it depends where they tend to go. But I think it depends on currents too. At times I did not find anything and at a particular place ,the same day and at a later time you find an octopus after another. It like they are coming up from the bottom or migrating. Sometimes even fish do the same.

[baghira]

Last saturday I did like you, since I needed some cholesterol in the freezer, and since there are no fish around. So I decided to choose some shallows and go on my own, without any large guns, just the 90, a 60 and a octopuses 'ganc'.

I found a good spot, altghough very fished, and octopus were not nicely sized.

I was amazed how i came across a nice shoal of barracuda, just above me, but I had no gun in the hand. Then these 'Xilep' came to feed beside me and I got one, and also 2 cervjol where I got one of them, but got lacerated and left. This reminded me of you, and I said to myself, you see how he manages to get also some nice fish. Sometimes the fish finds you ,and not the other way round.

[Perla 165]

very najs man

[gozo123]

trigger fish

[Arti2]

Catch 23rd November 2009

[gzarb]

nice catch!