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.

Clear Blue Water

Filed under Spearfishing Photos, Spearfishing Reports by on November 2, 2010 at 7:19 pm {no comments}

pb012113_0402 Finally after weeks of wind and terrible visibility, we got a calm day with clear blue water. Nate and crew were out and reported the blue water was pushed in to the west. So as soon as possible we loaded up and headed west. Also for once the calm day fell on one of Catherine’s days off, so I pretty much couldn’t ask for better luck.

We loaded up and headed out in Eddie’s boat in the morning. It was Eddie, Catherine, Andy, Dan, Andrew and myself. The plan was to go far west to the tail end. On the way out when we were running past Cosgrove shoal the water looked so clear it almost looked like we were running across air. There had to be over 100 foot of vis on the reef. When we got further west, it came down to maybe 70-80 feet of vis but it was still awesome.

We did very well on fish but no really big fish. The sheer volume of spearable fish was pretty amazing though. There were 2-4# hogfish and grey snappers everywhere. Yellow jacks and amberjacks all over. Groupers were not as thick as we had hoped but we got some anyway. No large groupers though, biggest black was around 15# and largest red grouper was probably around 8#. I saw one grouper around 25# yesterday but saw no really big groupers.

We had a great time and Catherine took a bunch of photos. No sharks or any other big animals spotted out there.

Clear Warm water

Filed under Spearfishing Photos, Spearfishing Reports by on September 14, 2010 at 4:28 pm {3 comments}

20100910_60-day_0717 Went out diving a couple days this week, had a lot of fun. One day Catherine and I went out and practiced freediving on the wrecks out front. It was fun but we really didn’t see any fish; even the jewfish were missing. We came back in to the reef and I shot a black grouper and a mutton snapper. The water was clear with at least 60-70 feet of vis and around 85 degrees. Not a lot of fish but still a great way to spend the day.

Then one day I went out with Andy and his girlfriend Cally. We did some dives on the edge of the reef in 65-70 feet of water. I saw a couple nice groupers but couldn’t get them. We drifted in the shallows and I shot a 15# black grouper. He was just chilling in the sand in the middle of nowhere. I almost felt bad shooting him, I think he thought he was camouflaged.

We found a grassy garden in the shallows filled with conchs and hogfish, it was pretty neat. We also hit one spot where there must of have been 4-5 black grouper all in around 45 feet of water. We both took off chasing the larger ones of the group. We were then joined by a big nurse shark with a yj in tow, he surprised the hell out of me suddenly appearing at the tips of fins and then following me on my dives to look up in rocks. I poked him with my spear but he came right back. He kind of screwed up my dives but I already had a grouper so I really didn’t care. I wish I could have gotten a photo or video of how ridiculous this nurse shark was acting.

Both days we left around 9 and 10 am and were back around 5 pm. I think total amount of gas burned was around 25 maybe 30 gallons for two days. Pretty sweet really, dive in 70 foot vis 85 degree water and shoot enough grouper for a cookout and a bunch of dinners. People may get better bigger fish diving in the other places of the US, but it always seems to involve diving in cold and dirty water or driving really far, and sometimes both. I think I am going to stay right here personally.

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