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.
Well grouper season has been open and I have had some stellar trips. But none of them have the involved a camera. Catherine came out one day with me with her camera and of course the vis sucked and no one shot anything that great. Well I shot a black and 2 reds all of [...]
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Well just got back from Panama and am still tired. I caught some minor bug either down there or by being on the plane and have no energy but I want to get this up while the trip is still fresh in my mind. The flight there is quick out of Miami but then there [...]
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Just a quick report I did not get a chance to post from last week or so. Augusto Coutinho was visiting from Brazil. We had a nice day on the water, nothing huge but he landed a nice cobia and a large barracuda. We had great vis and flat seas and spent a lot of [...]
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Got out last week with Cat , Andy, Stoner and Albie. the conditions were perfect but the fish were not to be found. Since grouper is closed, they were everywhere. We did not see any wahoo or big kings either. We did drifts in the deep water to see if the triggerfish were out yet [...]
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Cat and I headed out of Key West this past week and to North Carolina. The weather allowed us to get a day out on the water up there with Albie and Lydia. It wasn’t freezing like last time I was there, air temps were in the 70s and the water temps were 65-70 degrees. [...]
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Got out the other day with Andy and JP. The wind kind of sucked in the morning but it died down a bit in the afternoon. We went first to check for wahoo but the huge waves made that kind of unpleasant. We gave it a little bit but only saw some bonito and a [...]
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Well taking advantage of this calm weather, got out yesterday with JP, Julian, and Mike. We headed west and spent the whole day trying for wahoo. The water had some tiny particulate in it but I could see a color change on the bottom where the reef ended in around 100 –110 fsw. We did [...]
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Finally had a break in the weather and got out yesterday. Catherine was able to join us for the first time in awhile which was nice. We headed out a bit late because JP had to work in the morning. Also joining us was Stoner, and Julian. The first couple spots we hit on the [...]
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Been some great diving this past week. Was able to make it out one day with Cat so I got some photos. My friend Julian is visiting and we have gotten a bunch of diving in this week. The conditions have been great , clear water , light current not a lot wind. Really just [...]
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Well the weather and Cat’s day off collided again and we were able to go diving together again. Stoner joined us as well and when we got out to the reef the water was blue all the way into hawk’s channel. We dove hawks channel for a bit but all the only thing I saw [...]
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