Last time I dived, I saw a man with a speargun and a tank on his back entering the sea. He did not stay for long in the water, and probably caught nothing... but I was dumbfounded, since I was under the impression that spearfishing was not allowed to scuba divers: could someone deny/confirm ?

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You can do this in Vic and WA. Not in Tassie NSW or QLand, not sure about SA or NT

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I think you can spear them as long as you don't shoot the big blue ones.

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What about ACT?

Fairly certain u can't in SA either.

It's legal here.

They shouldn't be allowed spear fish or take crays That's cheating.

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I reckon it'd be harder on tanks to get crays, how often do you find one in a ledge that'd fit you plus a tank in it?

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The fish were blinded by overexposure to his pure awesomeness!

I spoke to a bubbly before about crays and he said he gets charters out especially to get crays. There could be 8 people on the boat and they could all potentially get 2 crays each. There would be some people on the boat that probably backed the protection of Blue Gropers, I can't understand that

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na man, you deflate your BCD and take it off, shove it into the crevace and in you go. A lot of people have massively long (~2m) hoses for this purpose.

Yep, I once watched a bubbler remove his tank etc to get into a ledge and get a cray. Looked like a bit of a hassle to me...

Comes in handy sometimes. Biggest Cray I ever caught in Vic was on SCUBA in 60 metres of water on Lonsdale wall. Not intending to catch cray so had no catch bag. Very interesting tussle during a very long deco stop. 6.5kg.

Holy crap. That's a monster from the deep.

You know what I want to see Brett, or should I call you Greg?

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The fish were blinded by overexposure to his pure awesomeness!

There used to be a photo on the picture board in my old dive shop. Predates digital cameras and computer photo storage. There may be a print hiding somewhere. Will have a look.

Haha! Good call...