2006 NCKA Spearfishing pool

Entry fee $5 per species

1. All fish entered must be caught from a kayak, without the aid of a powerboat, using and spear and using methods deemed legal by the California Department of Fish and Game.

2. Photographic evidence of fish, size (length/girth) must be provided.

3. Fish caught prior to payment of entry fees are ineligible.

4. All fish entered must be caught in the Central or Northern California Regions as defined by the California Department of Fish and Game (refer to http://www.dfg.ca.gov/mrd/fishing_map.html for map and regulations)

5. The pool covers the following categories: Halibut, Rockfish, Cabezone, Lingcod, and Abalone.

6. No out off season or oversize (fish larger than the legal limit per species) may be entered.

Prizes

The angler with the largest fish in each category will receive full cash payout of all entry fees for the category.

why $20.00?  the others are only $5.00...right?

Updated, $5 per species. This pool will be run like last years big fish pool for now.

Yeehaw!!! Let the games begin...
Bill, does this mean SCUBA from a kayak is OK? Or just free dive.

Mooch, you can't spear the fish after you reel it up to your kayak. Has to be done under water. 

Are there different categories for Scuba and Freedive?

Mooch, you can't spear the fish after you reel it up to your kayak. Has to be done under water. 

darn!  Guess I'll have to learn to hold my breath 

I will let you guys decide. See the poll at the top of the forum.

I'm not trying to be a feedive snob, I don't like that 'tude. But scuba gives a huge advantage to a spearo; especially for deep-water species like vermillions. This may work against me 'cause I might not be able to freedive too much in the future, the way things are going with my ears. But having done both, I'd rather lose freediving than win on scuba. We might as well say power boats are OK for the fishing pool (are they? ).

I agree with Rich...scuba divers have it easy. We should keep the derby for free diving only.

I'd prefer it simply be 'heaviest gamefish', gamefish being one of the above.  Probably a ling or halibut being the winner.  maybe a WSB is one gets caught up here.  That'll make it just $5 to enter.

$30 is alot to lay out next to the 30 for the rod/reel competition.  You can't just be lucky or good at one thing this time either.

I'm sort of in favor of heaviest fish; however that might cause me to want to shoot a big ling, which I generally try not to do; just personal preference in eating. I will probably enter all classes though; just to support the cause. And I won't hesitate to nail a 10 pound early season ling!

I agree with the no-scuba rule.

Just like we use kayaks instead of powered boats... we should dive on our own breath, not using scuba tanks to "cheat"   

Ok I think we have the no scuba thing down, one last poll on the format, it will run for 3 days then I will call this baby done.

I agree with Rich...scuba divers have it easy. We should keep the derby for free diving only.

Agreed - SCUBA spearfishing is not the same as freediving...It's illegal in most countries and should be here, but that's another issue...

Another question - what about diving from shore? I know that this is a kayak site promoting the sport of kayak-fishing, but I usually don't dive from my kayak, but what's the difference? The taking of the fish happens underwater, regardles of whether you have a kayak or not...In fact, I would say diving from shore is more challenging.