Took advantage of the nice weather and went out yesterday with Catherine, Mike and Andy. We had calm seas and decent visibility. I would say the clearest water we saw had around 50-55 feet of visibility. Strong current flowing to the east all day. We dove mostly in 30-55 feet of water. The fish we got was nothing spectacular: an amberjack, some yellow jacks – I got one yellow jack that was around 21-22 pounds – some mangroves, a cero mackerel , a hogfish. But we still had a great time, the air temps where kind of cold for riding around in the open boat soaking wet but it wasn’t that bad.
Andy recently got new shafts with the Tahitian flopper on them and they suck. He lost a bunch of fish including a a cobia, it was tough day for him. Some of the rocks that were covered in fish the other day were empty. Catherine was finally able to get back in the water after a dry spell. The unseasonably cold weather coupled with the spring wind, has made many days not worth going out. Catherine had a camera malfunction while swimming in the middle of a huge school of horse eye jacks, which now has her talking about buying a real video camera for under water. We saw tons of nurse sharks laying around the bottom in the groups, large schools of rainbow runners, and huge horse eye jacks.
The big yellow jack I shot, broke my shooting line but I found his body with the shaft shortly thereafter so it worked out. I have been shooting the gun with a single wrap of mono and it is so much more enjoyable then dealing with all the extra line. I think I may just stick with the single wrap unless the vis is like 100 feet or when grouper open back up. I saw several grouper today a couple were around 25 pounds possibly more.
Took advantage of the nice weather and went out yesterday with Catherine, Mike and Andy. We had calm seas and decent visibility, I would say the clearest water we saw had around 50-55 feet of visibility. Strong current flowing to the east all day. We dove mostly in 30-55 feet of water. The fish we got was nothing spectacular, an amberjack, some yellow jacks, I got one yellow jack that was around 21-22 pounds, some mangroves, a cero mackerel , a hogfish. But we still had a great time, the air temps where kind of cold for riding around in the open boat soaking wet but it wasn’t that bad.
Andy recently got new shafts with the Tahitian flopper on them and they suck. He lost a bunch of fish including a a cobia, it was tough day for him. Some of the rocks that were covered in fish the other day where empty. Catherine was finally able to get back in the water and a dry spell. The unseasonably cold weather coupled with the spring wind, has made many days not worth going out. Catherine had a camera malfunction while swimming in the middle of a huge school of horse eye jacks, which now has her talking about buying a real video camera for under water. We saw tons of nurse sharks laying around the bottom in the groups, large schools of rainbow runners, and huge horse eye jacks.
The big yellow jack I shot, broke my shooting line but I found his body with the shaft shortly thereafter so it worked out. I have been shooting the gun with a single wrap of mono and it is so much more enjoyable then dealing with all the extra line. I think I may just stick with the single wrap unless the vis is like 100 feet or when grouper open back up. I saw several grouper today a couple were around 25 pounds possibly more.
I bet it did! Nice!
The big permit bottomed out a 35# scale
Nice Permit! How much did it weigh? I’ll be down in a month. We’ll have to meet up. Steve.