Spearfishing BIG KOB - then losing it! - Port Elizabeth, SA (Mulloway/Jewfish)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 ก.ค. 2024
- Hey Everyone. Welcome to this video of a kob / mulloway / kabeljou I speared while diving in Port Elizabeth South Africa, and then lost! A sad but memorable day and dive. I hope you enjoy the video, please consider subscribing and leave a like and comment!
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00:00-01:46 Intro
01:46-5:52 Dive starts
05:52-09:33 KOB
09:33-10:26 Ending
nice vid. i always wondered if that area would work for fishing from the side. Now my kids can enjoy a fairly safe spot to fish.
Hey, yeah well done on figuring out the spot 😅 basically that precise area you can only get to the rocks at low tide except if you are ok to swim across it at high, when there would be more fish. But for sure a fishable spot 😊 thanks for watching!
Dude i totaly know the feeling, i lost a beautiful snoek two weekends ago, i stil get flashes of it in my mind the whole time, had a super amazing holding shot, pulled it in and as soon as it came close the flopper went down and the shaft pulled right out and off he went😢 sucks alot hey!! Anyways awsome video as always bru 😊
Ahhhh no man that sucks! I hope you get out there soon and get that fish. Thanks for the support dude👊
Nice video Jean
Shot Brian!
Unlucky man next time 🤙
Yeah 😔
Sadly, dusky kob are at 1.3% of their pristine biomass (2023). Likely to be recategorized from endangered to critically endangered next year by the IUCN. Silver and squaretail are *slightly* better off, if you can tell the difference before firing, but I am nowhere near good enough, especially when it's sandy.
Well the decline definitely has nothing to do with spearfisherman, its trawlers and long line fisherman doing the damage. A kob is a fine fish to take when spearfishing since it is rare to get a oppurtunity on them here and they are excellent eating. I do not think you get silver kob here, only dusky. I do agree its sad how fish numbers have taken down for lots of species and i hope it can be reversed!
@@Jeanlerouxspearfishing I'm afraid that's not true. We love to blame trawlers and commercials for our woes, but a lot of our species are hit inshore. Most of the pressure comes from recreationals, boats and shore, with an unknown element from illegal gillnets in estuaries. I encourage you to google "status of south african marine fishery resources 2023" (I can't post a link here). Spearos like us aren't the main contributor for dusky kob, true, but do we really want to contribute, even in a small way, to this decline? 1.3% is absolutely critical, possibly beyond collapsed. I really hope the government can impose a total fishing ban on dusky kob, ASAP.
Luckily we have good fish in SA, many of which you have seen and shown us. No need to hunt the endangered species.
@@Jeanlerouxspearfishing I'm afraid that's just not true. We love to blame commercials and chinese trawlers for our woes, but the reality is that we recreationals are responsible for the decline of a lot of inshore species. I encourage you to search for "Status of the South African Marine Fishery Resources 2023". There is a good estimate of different fishing pressures on various fish (not all, sadly, but the most important, including dusky kob). The summary is that recreationals, boat and shore, comprise the vast majority of that pressure. Spearos less so, but do we really want to be adding to the strain? 1.3% is really critical. We're talking about population collapse.
I'm afraid that's not correct. We love to blame commercials and chinese trawlers for our woes, but the reality is that we recreationals are responsible for the decline of a lot of inshore species. I encourage you to search for "Status of the South African Marine Fishery Resources 2023". There is a good estimate of different fishing pressures on various fish (not all, sadly, but the most important, including dusky kob). The summary is that recreationals, boat and shore, comprise the vast majority of that pressure. Spearos less so, but do we really want to be adding to the strain? 1.3% is really critical. We're talking about population collapse.
@@mat86100 dude I just had a rare opportunity to try and spear a kob which basically noone in pe gets, in transkei and natal spearos are spearing them daily, i am really aware of endangered fish and choose what i want to spear, for intance i have left dozens of large rockcods. No need to get pressed