spearing

joe has been taking me spear fishing this winter and i love it! i haven't actually thrown the spear. i only decided i was ready a couple of times ago, and actually haven't seen a fish since then. we went out saturday and sat for 3 hours, but didn't see anything. it's actually fairly peaceful. you sit in silence in a dark house looking down into the hole. the water is so clear. joe has said it is like watching tv without the sound. he just moved the house a couple of weeks ago into more shallow water and now you can see the bottom (9 feet down) and the weeds that come up from the bottom. i haven't actually seen a fish in the new location, but i'm hoping i will because the view is so much clearer than the other location. joe speared this one when he was with ricky, his kinship partner. it was a 10 lb. northern.
this is the view. it is hard to tell from the picture, but like i said, it is pretty clear. the decoy (live) is on the right side of the hole. i hope to eventually post a picture of a fish that i spear!