I entered my first spearfishing tournament. It was a blast!
Here's our team.
We spent a full 13 hour day out on the water and came back with this!
Dean, our captain, would have had two trophy fish. The first one (a 60 pound Cobia) he would have landed, but his crew lost it at the boat. The second, a 50 pound permit (half eaten fish above) got chewed on by a bull shark before we could get it to the boat.
Out off all our fish, the half eaten permit got the most attention at the weigh in. Fellow spearo's from the crowd applauded when we pulled it out of the cooler. People screamed "tax collector" referring to the shark that took his portion on meat before letting us depart the sea with the fish.
Of course my beautiful wife was there to support me.
All in all it was a great experience.