Course Overview:
To join a spearfishing beginner course, you must have already completed a Level 1 freediving course.
After going over the equipment, safety and other hunting basics in the classroom, we have lunch.
After lunch we do some shallow water target practice and manoeuvring with the gun in water. We then head out on a boat to look for fish around the Rumpons.
Any fish you shoot can be given to a local restaurant, prepared as you wish and eaten that evening.
Rumpons:
‘Rumpon’ is the Balinese word for ‘Fish Aggregation Device’ (FAD). These bamboo structures are built by local fisherman and anchored offshore.
Small fish hide in their lattice structure, attracting the larger predatory fish that we are hunting (Rainbow-runner, Mahi-Mahi, Wahoo etc).
The Guns:
Andre spearguns are very high quality and hand made in Bali. We have a 110cm wooden Andre gun for beginners, 125cm / 135cm reef roller guns for those who want to try something more powerful.