Yeh i used to go spearing and octopus hunting around La Pa almost every weekend, ran into a few little baby PJs a few times, Saw a couple of Sea Horses once, that was amazing i had never seen them in real life before and a couple of Sting Rays, but over the years there seems to be less and less of these types of creatures there... this was on the restaurant/cafe side, i hear there is good fishing on the other side of the old jail..tried once off the bridge but no luck.
But the octopus were great, always a guaranteed feed, never forget the time i went into the water with no spear/knife and grabbed a good sized occy hiding under an old door that was in the water, snuck up on it quick and grabbed it before i lost it in the ink...the looks on the faces of the kids on the beach that day hahaha it wrapped around my whole upper arm/chest area as i walked out onto the beach, one little fella started crying coz he thought i was being attacked by it!