Author: Cameron Kirkconnell

Kob, jewfish, white sea bass, redfish, red drum, black drum, totuava… What do all of these fish have in common? Whatever you call them in your ocean, they are big, delicious, throat-drumming, monster fish. If you can find them, you can usually get a spear in them and then they go nuts, giving you a great fight. Below is the story from Jaco Blignaut, an active member of www.spearblog.com, who crushed a monster 120-plus-pound kob in South Africa. He’s got some great pics from other dives and some other nice Kob too but this one is an absolute monster. Mexican…

Pictures like this draw a mix of feelings… Initially you feel a sense of awe at the sheer size of the fish. Then you can’t help but think that there is no way that boating that monster marlin is about to happen without flipping the crazy craft. Questions follow: Where? How Big? Did the boat sink? In decades past, images of Zane Gray, Hemingway, and the other greats of big-game fishing, brought respect and fame to the men who posed next to hanging fish. These photos drew thousands into the sport we now love. Just because this fish wasn’t taken…

While the sight of yellowfin and bluefin tuna is nothing new on bdoutdoors.com, the following story is one of the most surprising tuna catches we’ve hear of to date. While diving the cold, dirty water near Portland, England, in mid-July, a few freedivers had the surprise of their lives. They found themselves spearfishing for tuna. Here is the story from the angler who shot the fish, Brett Morison , as told to Cameron Kirkconnell of spearblog.com. It all began with a plan to head up to Portland, Dorset, with my dive buddy, James Keith from Cornwall. We were loaded like…