Winter Wahoo

Filed under Spearfishing Photos, Spearfishing Reports by on January 8, 2012 at 1:22 pm {one comment}

Well it’s winter and the Wahoo are here. Got out a couple times in the past couple weeks and both days were fantastic. Day number one I went out with Stoner and Pedro. We got out into the blue water and in like the first twenty minutes the first wahoo came in . I hit him with a solid shot and my float took off. I thought we would have to follow him with the boat but he didn’t make it that far.

We fought him for a while, the fish mostly swimming down which was different and then finally stoner shot him again and it was over.

After that it was slow pickings. We drifted for hours seeing nothing, then we saw two wahoo but they disappeared as quickly as they came. I got a nice kingfish. Then came another long period of nothing. Stoner started saying something like “ I can’t believe we are just going to fish for wahoo all day, this is boring“. I just laughed and in like the next ten minutes a school of 7 or 8 came in. The biggest one slid past me, but I drilled one that was following him. There was huge one swimming with the wounded one and I yelled to stoner to get him, but it wasn’t meant to happen.

The next time I was out was with JP and Mike. The day started slow . Jp had a big wahoo swim under him when his gun wasn’t loaded. Then nothing for a long time. We drifted over dozens of triggers and cero mackerel, but no wahoo. Hours passed and nothing. Then I saw what at first I thought was a king down kind of deep but it looked like it had stripes. I dove on it and around 50 feet down it came into range and it was in fact a small wahoo. I shot it in the tail. It was a baby but better then nothing.

More drifting, more nothing. Repeatedly the charter boat Linda D ignored our dive flag and ran close to the divers. At one point they got very close to another dive boat which happened to have kids in the water.

Then Mike nailed a nice king. A hammerhead showed up for a bit so that was pretty cool. Then it was dead again for awhile.

Then I had another wahoo come in , I dropped to his level and he started swimming away. I stopped swimming and he kind of came back and after a second was in range so I took the shot and landed him.

Sometimes I just seem to have a lot of luck.

Frying Pan Shoal , North Carolina

Filed under Spearfishing Photos, Spearfishing Reports by on December 21, 2011 at 7:55 pm {3 comments}
Went diving in North Carolina my new home, and it is cold. I mean really cold. Air Temperature on land is below freezing. When we left in the morning there was ice all over the deck of the boat.Now I had both my camera and my video camera with me and got like two photos and couple videos. I don’t know what I was thinking. Still kicking myself, the camera just sat in the boat. I am going to make myself take some photos next trip even if Cat can’t go.  I have been neglecting this website a bit, mostly because I don’t get any good photos unless Cat goes and she hasn’t been able to go out at all recently.

Anyways we left at 6 in morning and it was freezing on the ride out. the ride to frying pan shoals is around 30 miles or so. It felt like a long 30 miles. We jumped in on some rocks Albie said were loaded with fish last week but there wasn’t much on them. A couple sheepshead, and schools of amberjack was it. There were schools of Amberjacks everywhere by the way.  I did not see the monster jacks like Albie had seen the week before but there were jacks everywhere, almost every dive.

We dove the actual tower and Albie got a grouper off it and we both both got a couple sheepshead. I stoned a 50# aj off the tower as well, that’s a big fish for the Keys but nothing for North Carolina. Albie said he saw jacks that were 60-70 pounds all over the week before, and I had hoped to shot one big jack bigger then anything I had gotten in the keys but it wasn’t happening. The water was also supposed to 69 degrees the week before but when we got to the tower it was a balmy 63 degrees. Frankly the idea to run up there was kind of out the blue and I wasn’t really prepared to for it. By the after noon I was freezing.

We ended up getting the boat limit on gags. Someone from NC was trying to tell Albie that the gags are same as blacks in terms of spookiness. They are so wrong, at least from what I saw. I could pretty much swim down and put the gun on the head of a gag at the shoal.

We dove a deeper ledge and I shot a around 35# king fish which spooled my reel and took me for a ride. I don’t know how it got off, I think maybe a shark bit it. There were a number of sandbar sharks hanging around, they didn’t take any fish but they wanted to.

On the way in we hit a shallow wreck that was loaded with sheepshead and black sea bass. Of course black sea bass were closed and we couldn’t  take of them.

I did not see one hogfish all day.

I took a couple short video clips, not enough to really make a video with but I’ll post them on here anyway.

Windy and Dirty

Filed under Spearfishing Photos, Spearfishing Reports by on November 15, 2011 at 6:32 pm {4 comments}

Haven’t posted on here in a bit, frankly with this weather there hasn’t been much going out. The cold water has both driven many divers out of the water and driven the lobsters in shallow. We have been catching our “limit” almost every time we have gone out. The north wind has made for some decent vis inshore.

Been out to the reef a few times but two out of three have been pretty rough and the water has been diveable but not crystal clear. Not many photos because Cat has had to work on most of the days we have been out. Cal shot 25# black in like 150 fsw the the other day but other then his grouper, I haven’t seen a lot of grouper. In the next couple weeks they should come in.

There are fat mangroves on the reef line now, not that big a deal but they are everywhere. I haven’t seen any big schools of yellow jacks or cero mackerel yet any day now though. I shot a cero that was probably over 10# on the Vandenburg the other day but the cudas devoured it. We shot some as payback but they had the last laugh when a float line broke and big cuda ran off into the waves trailing a custom wood spear gun. If you find a wood enclosed track gun with the initials JT on it , contact me. My friend who lost it is willing to pay some sort of reward for it.

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