Tuskfish from Sunabe seawall. It's the third day in a row there for me to ge there - too convenient to do a lunchtime "workout" in the water. On Sunday, I saw a pair of "fishzilla" Tamans that I'd estimate to be 10+lbs each, reminiscent of the one Ken shot there several months ago. I'll be back..

Hoffman forgot to post this pic of himself.

Hedo Point
Made the trek north to Hedo Point for the first time today. Tim and I had heard stories about this location and we were excited to give it a try. We drove up along the west coast and the ocean was flat like a lake all the way up until we hit the point. There, we could see the swells rolling in and 3-4 ft waves crashing on the reef. Beyond the waves you could see coral fingers extending outward in clear water. We had to climb down a cliff face to reach the water and then swim under the waves ti deeper water. Once in I could see why people talked about this spot with so much excitement. We were immediately greeted by a pair of sea turtles and there were schools of fish everywhere. We saw the some of the biggest parrot fish we ever seen. There were coral trout at about 50 ft that were larger than anything I had ever seen. We got some good sized parrot fish and I shot a nice coral trout. If we could hit 50ft comfortably, we probably could have had some large coral trout. We were only in the water for about 2 hrs because we became concerned with the exit through the waves as the tide was rising. Getting out was an adventure and I lost my brand new Riffe knife in the surf. This was Tim's last Okinawa spearfishing adventure since he is leaving us next week for Camp Pendleton. This was a nice way to finish.

View from the top.

My harvest. Ceviche tonight!

Tim finally made the blog on the last try!

4 blue parrots, 2 red parrots, and a coral trout.

Here's the lobster camping trip catch. Total of 16 lobsters, the unlucky ones we had for breakfast didn't make it home for the pictures. It started out as a bad night, I almost lost my brand new float but lobsters started coming out around 10 p.m. Missed a big bumphead sleeping in hole when a wave pulled my float taking my aim off the big fish, but overall it was a good night.

Caitlyn's fish slowly getting bigger!

We love the coral trout!

6lb 11oz bump-head parrotfish!

blunt head parrot fish and green wrasse

Four good parrot fish for Caitlyn

Peacock Coral Trout from Oura Wan

Older picture of Coral Trout but still blog worthy!

Here are a few pictures from the last month or so of Ken, Carey and Caitlyn's spearfishing adventures. There has been some good fishing, and good eating, as the pictures can attest. Most notably in the bunch is Carey's most recent capture of a 6lb. 11oz bumphead parrotfish taken near Okuma Bay. Caitlyn is also coming up the ranks quite nicely and getting bigger fish with each hunt. Her record stands at about a 1lb 5oz parrotfish, but we have outfitted her with a slightly bigger gun which hopefully will bring her some better range. We hope you enjoy the pictures as much as we enjoyed the fishing!!

Preparing for dinner

It's been awhile since I posted on the blog, but I got a couple of nice lobster as a reward from the ocean gods for swimming my butt off for 3 hours in the middle of the night and these 2 bugs were caught at the tail end of the 3 hour swim. Probably too much work for 2 lobsters, but that was enough for two people!!

Dinner is served!