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This brings us now to our weapons of choice.
We're going to start off looking at a polespear.
Often people start with a pole spear.
So to take quality fish with a polespear is tough.
It's really tough.
It's a matter of getting really close to the game.
However, taking fish is quite possible
and crayfish as well if you are in Queensland.
Okay, let's just have a quick look at it.
This is a pole spear.
You got rubber on this end here, okay?
That's your source of power, okay?
Rubber gets stretched like so.
Boom, that gives you your shot.
On this end you've either got a pranger.
You've got your four prongs there.
Very sharp.
And you've got
or you know
in some of them you've got a point.
And even some spears for the very sophisticated ones
that are chasing big fish
you can even have a breakaway on it
and with the head breaks away in the fish
and you play the fish on the line.
But this is the very basic thing.
So there is some
tips for getting fish on a pole spear
and probably the best one is to target the caves.
So the reason for this is that the fish
often feels quite safe in a cave.
So it'll see the diver come down
and next thing it zooms off and goes into a cave.
So the diver comes along
and he's got a spear
and he sees a cave down there.
And the way to approach it
is don't go down there see the fish,
then load your spear
and try and shoot it.
The fish's going to be long gone.
The way to work out a fish out of a cave
is to see the cave you're going to target,
you go down to it
and as you approach load the spear.
On this one here
I would be loading this here
up to this here
into this area here
and then get down to the cave.
You go down to the cave
and put your head
and spear into the line of the cave at the same time.
You've got to make a fast decision.
The fish think they are safe.
They'll only think that for about a second
before they go,
oh something's wrong here,
and it's gone, you know.
So you've got to actually be on the ball.
You go down there like that
and all of a sudden you see,
Oh I want that, that's a jack.
Boom!
And you take it, okay.
So polespears
you're going to need a
if you want to take a bigger fish
you need a heavier spear.
This is a heavier one here.
You can get small fish
and flathead and things like that on a light one.
It's not that important.
In Queensland, we can take
crayfish with a pole spear.
We cannot do that in New South Wales
and I'm not sure on the other states at this point in time.
I'm sure your local divers there will be able to tell you.
But it's simple as pie with that.
You just go in there
and you see the crayfish
and you go chunk!
And take the crayfish out of the hole.
So it's pretty straightforward in that.
So it can be effective,
you can get good fish.
You've just,
you know, when it comes to setting up ambushes
you see a fish go down behind a reef,
you can set up an ambush
and every now and then you're going to pull that one off.
But swimming up to a fish in the open water
the fish has got to be a completely daft fish
to let you get that close.
And most of these fish we target
aren't quite that dumb.
Now that brings us on here to safety.
Polespears are fairly safe
and that you have to wind them up.
You've got to get that rubber happening
before they develop power.
However, this is the crucial point in New South Wales.
I remember one time someone was coming up the beach
up a beach path with a tip uncovered
and tripped and went forward
and hit a girl with the end of the spear.
So we must cover this area.
Look we're given one of these.
But look a bottle cap,
you know, a bleach bottle cap will do it.
You just put that in there like that
and that renders it safe, you know.
So I think that's important on the safety on the polespear.
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