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Spearfishing

Coasts you go hunt — charters or a shore scene you can find. Worldwide, by country, on the map.

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Top countries for Spearfishing

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Luisbecerrafotografo · Pexels

Mexico

Show up, book a boat, hunt the same week

Pacific ports and the Cortez side run dedicated spearfishing charters a visitor can book without a club. FADs, drop-offs, and shore days are on the same trip. A simple recreational fishing licence is the usual paperwork.

  • Dense visitor charter market
  • Simple fishing licence
  • Reef, FADs, and shore
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Jonathanschmer · Pexels

United States

Hawaii shops and Florida boats

Hawaii is walk-in shore hunting with shops that sell and fill guns; a boat is optional. Florida adds guided days you can book like any other charter. Florida uses a saltwater licence; Hawaii is mostly closed zones rather than a visitor permit.

  • Hawaii: shore and shops without a club
  • Florida: easy guided hunts
  • Low paperwork outside closed areas
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Alejandro Orozco · Pexels

Costa Rica

Pacific FAD weeks you can actually book

The Pacific coast sells bluewater spearfishing as a fly-in product — mahi, tuna, and wahoo off FADs, with captains used to visiting hunters. Shore is secondary. A visitor licence is normal and usually handled with the boat.

  • Charter desks that take spearos
  • Big-game FAD hunting
  • Simple visitor licence
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Guillaume Kremer · Pexels

Indonesia

Warm-water boats a visitor can find

Several islands have dedicated spearfishing charters a traveler can book in English, on water that still holds reef fish and pelagics. No heavy visitor licence; the constraint is marine parks. Hunt the open water the operator already uses.

  • Bookable spear charters
  • Strong fish and game
  • Park zones, not a pricey permit
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Neron Photos · Pexels

Panama

Pacific bluewater with visitor boats

Pacific gulf and island boats run FAD and open-ocean spearfishing for fly-in guests. Fewer desks than the busiest Pacific ports, but you can still book a week. Permits go through the operator.

  • Bookable Pacific charters
  • FADs and pelagics
  • Permit via the boat
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Xt7core · Pexels

Philippines

Reef weeks with spear guides

A visitor can book spear-specific guides on several island groups, not only scuba boats, over reef that still fishes. It takes a message before you fly rather than a walk-up desk. Stay out of marine parks; there is no heavy national licence in the way.

  • Spear guides you can book ahead
  • Reef fish and reliable days
  • Parks, not expensive paperwork
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AXP Photography · Pexels

Honduras

Bay-island boats and simple paperwork

The Bay Islands have spearfishing charters a visitor can arrange with a shop or skipper, on Caribbean reef with workable fish. It is a smaller market than the big Pacific desks, but the week is still bookable. A simple fishing permit is the usual path.

  • Island charters and shops
  • Caribbean reef hunting
  • Simple visitor permit
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