EP18 - Barramundi - Spearfishing Barramundi tips and tricks. Spearing the coast of Mackay QLD

After having a bad run of weather for the last few months I found myself going through a heap of my saved footage. I realised I was sitting on quite a bit of Barramundi footage from spearing the coast of Mackay QLD . In this latest episode I run through a few tricks I have learnt from more experienced divers. It's a bit of a Barramundi how to, along with some Barra how not to.....I also finally work out how I lost a monster barra from last year. There is some older footage some of which has been in some of my older videos, there is heap of unseen footage as well. I hope you enjoy, be careful Spearfishing Barramundi is very adictive 🍻
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[@NoobSpearoSpearfishing]

I predict many more subscribers mate:) Great natural commentary, awesome footage and sequences!

[@ExhaleAdventures]

Thanks for your support mate. I really enjoyed making this one. Let’s hope I can get out for some fresh footage 🍻

[@ZombieHoard]

I tested these pinned shafts about 18 years ago and broke all 5 in the furthest forward pin. I only use shark fin tabs for all of my guns. Superior in every conceivable way. Stronger and the welded tabs reduce the shaft harmonics so they shoot flatter with comparable shafts. Great video and happy hunting.

[@ExhaleAdventures]

That’s some good info to know. Logic says it has to be weaker there with a hole all the way through the shaft. What you said about the shark fin tabs is interesting and also makes sense. I’ve got all notched shafts at the moment, maybe I should switch it up to shark fin tabs on my next shaft order?

[@ZombieHoard]

@@ExhaleAdventures Provided they clear the band elevators of your roller gun and have a loading tab (This is the contributing factor to minimise the harmonics) Hunt are currently making some really good shafts. I love your editing, looking forward to more content in the future.

[@Dstick1Spearfishing]

That was a great video mate well done, nice Barra footage, and great tips! Really enjoyed watching that! Cheers for sharing it!

[@ExhaleAdventures]

I'm glad you got something out of it mate. Thanks for checking it out 🍻👊

[@rizkygenzy6577]

I am from Indonesia🇮🇩 support you video👍👍👍

[@ExhaleAdventures]

Thank for checking it out, all the way from Indo 👌

[@alastairwilliams9550]

Yeeeew awesome video! Defiantly going to look for them if I break out!

[@ExhaleAdventures]

Happy hunting mate 🤿

[@robhodge7773]

Keep em coming man! Rate the commentary/explanation. Super helpful for a greenhorn like myself.

[@ExhaleAdventures]

That’s awesome to hear Rob. Thanks for your kind words. I’m glad my vids have given you some info to help with the learning curve 👌🏻

[@catchitgrowitcookit]

Fantastic vids!! really enjoying the channel-If the weather is good going to dive the Cloughy Challenge-be great to catch up with the Mackay guys haven't dived the comp for over ten years

[@ExhaleAdventures]

Thanks very much mate. Hopefully the weather plays the game. It should be a good turn out this year.

[@Andysfishing]

Back to work for me now, ha ha

[@ExhaleAdventures]

Thanks for checking the channel out mate. Your latest vid is on the list to watch tonight 👍🏼🤿

[@4amwaj]

awesome.

[@ExhaleAdventures]

Thanks for checking my vid out 🍻

[@aidenberardi2121]

Your my hero

[@Simplicities]

Sick video, a barra is on my bucket list 👌

[@ExhaleAdventures]

Thanks for the kinds words. They are good fun to hunt, I’m keen to do some winter diving and pick up a few more this year 🍻

[@Hugo-bx3qc]

Awesome vid, keep up the great work, you must be on the same shift as me, last week on days on the other crew got 2 mint days and now its pissing rain again haha. You've actually peaked my interest in spearfishing, ive done a free dive course so im not such a danger to myself and went and bought my first spear gun today, cheers!!

[@ExhaleAdventures]

Seems to be stuck in a cycle hey, last year I had an awesome run. That’s awesome you have done a course. You are doing it the right way. Where do you live?

[@Hugo-bx3qc]

@@ExhaleAdventures yeah every days off I charge the batteries and prep in hope of a weather window haha. I live out at blacks beach so all your vids get me keen.

[@ExhaleAdventures]

@@Hugo-bx3qc Awesome mate, looks like this winds calms down when we are due back to work ....

[@Hugo-bx3qc]

@@ExhaleAdventures haha yeah 10knot variable by Wednesday, story of my life haha.

[@TbazBoys]

Awesome video

[@ExhaleAdventures]

Thanks for checking it out lads 👍

[@TbazBoys]

@@ExhaleAdventures no worries mate 🤙🏽🤙🏽

[@benway1035]

Geez man you hit TWO barra and didn't land one?! That's pretty green! Haha! But seriously I was only just talking about shooting barra head on the other day with the guru! Thanks man I'm seriously keen now!

[@ExhaleAdventures]

Hey you had something to do with that Barra that had a second shot on it already 😉

[@kiwibloke2000]

very nice vid. Subscribed

[@ExhaleAdventures]

Thanks for checking it out mate 🍻

[@Gtsp777]

I have found coral trout, gold spot cod and maori wrasse back when we could take will sulk if you loose off the spear. Coral trout that sulk in holding tanks of live trout exporters actually die from skin ulcers when stressed.

[@ExhaleAdventures]

Thats interesting about the trout in the holding tanks. I wonder if released line caught trout get stressed enough for the same. Probably not.

[@Gtsp777]

@@ExhaleAdventures I think the skin ulcers are the beginning of the end. My mate Bruce was a live trout factory manager, he would give me 10 or 20 trout a month that he couldn't sell because of ulcers.

[@EthanYeo1]

Another great video, I’d love to shoot a Barra one day! It’s interesting that the species that are more difficult to hunt are the more fun ones haha. What’s the reason why you don’t wanna shoot them front on? Do they have a hard skull or something?

[@ExhaleAdventures]

Thanks mate, they have a very hard skull. They have big thick scales, everything on them is pretty tough. You definitely don’t want to go in under-gunned 😅

[@FishingwithTrev]

I see what you mean about the beams and structure in the water

[@ExhaleAdventures]

It’s cool hey, there is plenty of that going on when you start looking.

[@heavyweight0111]

My favourite fish to hunt for sure. I'm guessing the broken shaft was a spearmaster from OBD??? Had the exact same thing happen to me with one of those on a big trout.

[@ExhaleAdventures]

It was a Rob Allen 7.5mm with the loading tabs. It broke on one of the little round tabs. In RA defence that shaft shot a lot of fish including some decent Barra, Spanish, Grey Mackeral, Jacks etc. It did a heap of work it just failed at a really bad time haha.

[@heavyweight0111]

@@ExhaleAdventures yeah true. Don't you wish it failed when you missed a 40cm trout and jammed in a bit of coral instead of a trophy Barra!

[@APpoacher]

@@ExhaleAdventures I noticed the fish was shiot while quatering toward you , this will alswy put the load on the shaft at an angle likely to put more bending stress on thshaft and welded or cut areas of a shaft are stress raisors that will initiate a break when heavily loaded on these angles, of course if you wait until the fish is quatering away you may miss a lot of opportunities to get a fish so most of us will still take a shot on the angle you did.

[@ExhaleAdventures]

@@APpoacher thanks for the comment mate. In fairness to that shaft it speared a lot of fish, from Mackerel and Tuskies to Jacks and Barra. I’ve just had the same style shaft snap a loading tab. Might be time for a change I think.

[@APpoacher]

@@ExhaleAdventures if they weld the tabs after the initial heat treatment and don't re temper or heat treat the shaft it's possible they may create a weak point. I'm not sure about process used by that manufacturer or any other but with 40 odd years in Engineering related employment I have a rough idea on what can go wrong

[@come_adrift8448]

Man im frothing for a barra, Jewies definitely sulk and hide especially during their spawning season. I shot a couple and seperated a school, talking on the surface to my partner about how i wont take another from that spot and look down and theres one sitting under the rock below us. Just sitting and watching us 2m away. Ive got some awesome close up footage of it.

[@ExhaleAdventures]

Thats pretty cool, I havent chaised Jew yet, the last few years we have had the new 'tonnage' limit that limits the recreational and commercial take. Once the commercial guys have hit the limit it's season closed. The commercial guys normally burn through the years total in a month or so.

[@come_adrift8448]

@@ExhaleAdventures yeah thats only for black jewfish though. I would think you would still get mulloway in mackay? Ive not hunted a black jew either.

[@ExhaleAdventures]

@@come_adrift8448 Nah black Jew mate. My dive buddy has the Australian record for black Jew speared here in Mackay 👍🏼

[@come_adrift8448]

@@ExhaleAdventures yeah right. Its crazy how just a few hours up the coast the species change so much, we get plenty of mullaway off brisbane.. large numbers.

[@timothyhutchins4668]

Mackay hey, any crocs? I am not a fan of them. Nice video!!

[@ExhaleAdventures]

Yeah mate in Mackay. There is definetly crocs around, we have spotted them on the surface while fishing etc, I'm yet to bump into one underwater though.

[@clinton9118]

Do you ever get worried about diving in murky water? I’ve only been spearing for a little over a year and find the days with low vis daunting.

[@ExhaleAdventures]

When I first started diving I was that keen it didn't worry me I just wanted to dive. If I havent been out for while (like now) and I head out into some dirty water i'll start getting 'worried thoughts'. I can generaly put them aside and carry on. Sometimes Its harder to push the thoughts aside, like a feeling of being watched, those days I just get out and change spots.

[@patrickvanpraet5487]

​@ExhaleAdventures I tend to stick closer to the boat or a bigger bommy in the beginning of the dive just till I get relaxed and comfortable... too dirty around here in broome to not dive when dirty cause I'll be barely diving 😅

[@180sxdking]

What’s the water like up there compared to say Melbourne lol

[@ExhaleAdventures]

I think it’s cold 🥶 at the moment, melbournians would probably think it’s hot 🥵 haha

[@georgeandkatherinedrager3705]

Nice vid I love spearfishing I started when I was 9 and am now 56 I know how to handle sharks but do you know how to handle crocs ? I would love to know I sub your ch

[@ExhaleAdventures]

Hey mate, nice to hear from you. I haven’t had to deal with a Croc yet. I’m not sure how they would react in the water, if you ever find any info on it I would love to see it. Thanks very much for the sub, Cheers Kurt 🍻🤿

[@tomb6875]

Where you based man

[@ExhaleAdventures]

Out of Mackay mate

[@spearo16]

Those wire tabbed spears like the one that you had snap are just garbage.

[@ExhaleAdventures]

Yeah I learnt the hard way. In it’s defence it speared a lot of fish before this one 👌🏻

[@spearo16]

@@ExhaleAdventures I had a good king snap a brand new one by just doing a 180 mid water, no pressure on the shaft and it just gave up at the pin. All RA had to say was oh yeah that happens sometimes, was pretty underwhelmed by that product backing.

[@pilbarraboiz8075]

Trout do the same

[@ExhaleAdventures]

Got that right, just have to be able to get in to them when they hide. Sometimes they are deeep

[@pilbarraboiz8075]

1 of the boys are over from port hedland atm he would be keen to see what the waters like over your way… Darin vujevich or on youtube(GIFTED)