Spearfishing at Talland Bay (Cornwall) Bass and my first Mackerel!!!

[@johntonkin516]

Beautiful mackerel...my favourite to eat too... within an hour of catching them... with a lure though 😂

[@johntonkin516]

Fantastic mate... fair play to you... wish I was young enough and could hold my breath like that... brilliant 👍

[@jackmetcalfe8542]

@@johntonkin516 there’s lots of older guys in spearfishing, some of the best UK divers are 60+. Definitely a sport in which experience trumps athleticism

[@williamharris9529]

Superb, Jack! Makes me wish I was there with you. Carry on living the dream!

[@PilzE.]

My “ex-girlfriend” was pretending to be pregnant, is an absolute classic line! Hope you've not suffered too much heartache/break, brother. Great session, would have enjoyed seeing the cook up too! Hopefully the lack of sea life was due to tides, as you said, because thinking we've over-fished, polluted, or, in some other way, destroyed so beautiful an ecosystem simply doesn't bare thinking about! We live up on the North Coast of Cornwall, near Portreath, Porthtowan area, and it really is a little slice of purest heaven! 🤍

[@jackmetcalfe8542]

Talland was a pretty tough mark, saw 4-8 other divers in the water both times I was there, and I think the fish definately prefer quieter places Was not ideal circumstances on that trip for sure!

[@UKSpearo]

Ah bring back that summer viz!! Great video dude, well done on the mackerel 😎💪

[@jackmetcalfe8542]

Thanks, would like to target a few different species this season, a Sole from N Wales is the main goal as I've seen a few small ones but haven't heard of anyone actually taking one!

[@robertsoso7093]

Hi jack! Great job Really good you slowed down the video to show what’s going wrong during the hunt You earned new subscriber I hope to see more videos from your trips

[@jackmetcalfe8542]

Glad you found it useful!

[@joelfildes5544]

Nice stuff,a mate of mine shot a pipe fish once ! We ate it,and the bones were bright verdigris green.Hell of a shot,it was about twice as wide as his spear tip ! Tasted quite nice.

[@jackmetcalfe8542]

Have eated a few and they're good aren't they. Seen loads surging past when off the Llyn headlands but never actually pulled the trigger on a Garfish, they're so thin and fast moving it's hard to line a shot up

[@joelfildes5544]

@@jackmetcalfe8542 aye,this was off The Llyn,cheers.

[@archiexter4960]

(and a member of the seahorse family)

[@joelfildes5544]

@@archiexter4960 I had no idea ? Does that mean they mate for life too ?

[@ddd34660]

Great video, shooting mackerel is always fun! I also wondered why every time I go to Pembrokeshire it feels like there is significantly more fish and crustaceans that in English channel. The visibility usually poorer but even in 1-2m vis I managed bass (they approach up close), this rarely happens in Devon/Cornwall. Could be a self-persuasion though :)

[@jackmetcalfe8542]

Had the same experience. In Cornish areas that get speared a lot the fish spook very easily, North Wales they just don’t spook

[@monewa4887]

Woww nice

[@nicknixon2859]

Awesome video man

[@jackmetcalfe8542]

Thank you

[@moritzdreesen6300]

Nice video what is your dive watch

[@jackmetcalfe8542]

Seac Partner. Cheap and fairly reliable, however after 2 years of use the buttons on the dive setting stopped working

[@nuffseed596]

Noice, down in my part of the world. Bring on April!! Your ex sounds like a classic psycho mate, well done for escaping 👍

[@jackmetcalfe8542]

Breath hold got a lot better once the stress was over haha

[@tomTom-xg1it]

My ex hit me in the head with. Saucepan while I slept, you’ll look back on it and laugh …… one day sick spearing every days a school day

[@rafaljarosz7094]

Now we know why ''ex''. She apparently wasn't 😀

[@jackmetcalfe8542]

😂 mate she was thoroughly crazy!

[@rafaljarosz7094]

@@jackmetcalfe8542 😀