7am Friday morning saw Andrew, Wikus, Steve, Grant and myself kitting up at Ysterfontein and heading out. It was the first real calm day after a few days of SE. I had heard the tail had been around the island the previous day and wanted to see if they were still there.
We headed to the island and spent the morning jumping on scattered bird activity that wasnt great. Grant was very keen to get one and dived hard. He did manage to get a spear into one but it came off.
We headed to the west side and found all the commercial boats catching snoek. Steve shot a nice hottie on a shallow bank….but no tail. At about 12 we headed to the inside of the island again. What we found was great. The tail were swimming north into the wind 100m from the shore. We started doing drifts south with the wind down the side of the island. I was dropping the guys near the birds and they swam to them and dived knowing the tail will be below. The team quickly learned that shooting tail isn’t easy. The guys hit 6 shoals in a row seeing hundreds of fish swimming all over the place.
It was hilarious from the boat watching everyone pop up after a dive shouting with excitement. MANY lessons were learned and alot of growth for the divers
It was a great day and Im so glad that every one got 1 fish in the boat, well done guys you earned it
Steve
