Fishing this morning

This morning was fairly adventurous. We got up with the sunrise at 5:30 to go spear fishing. We finally bought a spear to maximize our efficiency yesterday. It was raining as we traveled along the mud roads on our bikes. We were ready to catch our food for the first time out of necessity rather than just for fun. As we got to our favorite dock, it stopped raining. We swam around a little bit and eventually found where the larger fish congregate. Slowly learning what works and what doesn't, we eventually got a few black snapper. We saw all kinds of crazy marine life, stingrays, starfish, lots of colorful fish, some dolphins swam by, it was awesome.
A few of the local guys were on the same dock and showed me how to catch a barracuda. They showed me how to throw in our sardine net, put a lively one on the hook, through the mouth, then cast it behind the barracuda, slowly pulling it past him. The baros hang out in really shallow water and the water is crystal clear, so we could see when it was checking out the bait. It didn't show much interest unless the sardine was moving. Eventually he went for it though and I caught him! That was exciting.
Later, we fished behind Jeff's apartment in the lake (the conventional way for the most part), and we caught a ton of little snapper. We learned the cheapest and easiest way to fish is by winding the line around a glass coke bottle, then casting off the end of that. No fishing rod is necessary! We had fish tacos for dinner!