My name is Ben Shep,
and this is my homepage:
Deep-Blue-water.com.
I live in
Key West,
FL
and work on the interwebs when not shooting fish.
Took advantage of the great visibility and reasonably calm conditions and went spear fishing yesterday near the Marquesas Keys. Five people went: Brad, Catherine, Mike, Chris and myself. My boat handled that many people reasonably well, and we had a great day, visibility ranged from 60-80 feet all day. In the morning the current was [...]
Read MoreAh Thanksgiving, special day to spend eating turkey with family. Catherine and I spent the morning working and went out on the water in the afternoon instead. For dinner we had grilled triggerfish and lobster instead of turkey. We took some pics and some vids, I pulled something in my arm and had a lot [...]
Read MoreCatherine and I went out spearfishing yesterday afternoon. She didn’t get out of work until 11 , so we hit the water around noon. One of the awesome things about having a boat in the water, is you can jump in and be off without much prep. It makes you use the boat a lot [...]
Read MoreCatherine and I went out for a quick lobstering trip yesterday afternoon and it was freezing. I am from a cold climate and usually when people who live down here say it’s cold I usually laugh and go diving. This was really cold, like for the first time I said this too cold, this is [...]
Read MoreHad a half day of spearfishing today with Catherine, and it kind of sucked. The winds finally dropped down to a reasonable level for the first time in weeks, and there was like 10 feet of vis on the reef in front of Key West. The water was beautiful just a few days ago, and [...]
Read MoreWent out spearfishing yesterday with Brain , winds ranged from 13-19 knots all the day and visibility ranged from a green 20 to a blue 60. The better vis started about mile north of the drop off. I brought some chum and flashers to try to get another shot at a wahoo but the waves [...]
Read MoreWent out spearfishing on Saturday with Brad and Brian, and pretty much got our ass handed to us by the wind. The vis wasn’t as good as it was Friday, probably 40 feet and chalky, and got worse throughout the day. Winds were 20-24 knots from the northeast We shot a couple fish and pretty [...]
Read MoreWent out today with Matt for a half day, first we hit some shallow inshore spots visibility was 15 feet or so got a couple lobsters. Went out to the reef and the water was a nice blue with about 50 feet of vis, but the winds started gusting to 24 knots. Kind of made [...]
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