1 Day Spearfishing Course

Learn to Spearfish with our intro to Spearfishing Course!

Locations: Nelson Bay, Port Stephens NSW
Duration: 1 full day (8 hours)
Prerequisites: Be a confident swimmer and able to swim 200m unaided in open water

You do not need to have completed a freediving course to come, but we highly recommend you take a Freedive Intro Course or a Wave 1 Course before attending as you will get so much more out of the course.

NEW COURSES UPDATE: For courses from March onwards. There is a max of 6 people in each course instead of 8, for a more personalised experience. 

Gear Needed: Freediving Gear + gloves. You do not need your own speargun to attend, we will have a training speargun for you to practice with. Gear hire available.
Spots Per Course: 6 people max (3 per instructor)

WHO IS THIS COURSE SUITABLE FOR?
- Complete Beginners to those who have only been spearfishing a couple of times, or those with 'all the gear and no idea'
- Anyone wanting to learn the whole spearfishing process from the very beginning up to being able to store and fillet your own catch

Whats Included:
- 3 hour theory session on everything you need to know to get started 
- 2.5 hour dive skills session in the ocean including target practice / breath hold
- Learn how to comfortably increase your breath hold & relaxation while spearfishing
- Post dive session theory/ fish preparation session

These sessions will be run over a full day and will involve a mixture of interactive theory sessions and open water dive sessions. 

Here’s what you’ll be learning:

• Spearfishing Gear Basics
• Basic Freediving techniques for spearfishing (Breath-hold, equalisation, techniques)
• Fish identification basics, ethics and local laws of spearfishing
• Loading speargun how-to
• Basic hunting tactics that will increase your success rate
• Fish/Bottom Approach
• Landing Fish Correctly (how to safely secure and dispatch your catch once it's been shot)
  
• Spearfishing safety including shark behaviour and reducing your risk of negative interactions
• Dive buddy 101 
• How to clean & scale a fish
• How to filet a fish (and the difference between when to fillet/ when to gut & scale)
• Fish storage

Who you will be learning from:
You will be coached by our freediving & spearfishing instructors, who have over 15 years of experience spearfishing, have shot Australian & World Record fish and have taught students from never ever ability levels, to now comfortably spearfishing at 30 metres plus in depth. 

Asides from experience, our spearfishing instructors are passionate about helping to educate others on this life changing skill and won't hold back in sharing their knowledge of the techniques required to capture incredible fish.

Gear Hire
If you need to hire all of the freediving gear, the cost is $40pp for the day

Make sure you possess a current NSW fishing licence before going spearfishing and download the FishSmart app (nsw.gov.au) to check NSW's local fishing regulations and marine park locations before heading out spearfishing.