Text & Photos: Memo Arikok

Blue water spearfishing has not been discovered till last few years in Mediterranean
waters. We can also see the nasty stain on fish population with the constant pressure on
reef environment with advanced commercial fishing in our waters. When things are not that
good and morales are low, there is nothing better than trying new things isn’t it!
Last few weeks, my dive buddy and I were thinking about preparing a entry stage blue
water session and it was definitely the time to go. Burley was ready, guns were checked,
new shooting lines were on, spears sharper than ever and few emergency floats were rigged
on the rib.  It was around 2pm when we started chumming and no later than 15min we saw the
first blue/yellow glitters around the boat!


On top of a 70m deep reef, we were trying to take attention with smelly burley + few simple flashers and mahi bulls were all around!We glided down the endless blue and all of a sudden the nervous bulls were circling around us dressed with aggression stripes. Few went for the sinking burley and the rhythm
was picking up.Mesmerized with the beauty of the scene, I was already daydreaming when the first nice
bull decided to have a look to the fat cuttlefish sinking down below. It approached
slowly but steadily and I squeezed the trigger to a solid part of the body.


Fish was stoned for a second and then revived leaving me speechless. After all this was blue water
fishing isn’t it? The next 2 hours went flying and we were in the boat once more giggling
with 5 nice mahi bulls.What can I say? Mahi carpaccio is beautiful and the thrill was at the very top!