Saturday Dive Trip

[biggun]

Well 4 of us headed out of rollover headed south. We got the mouth of rollover and it was nice green trout water..

Pointed Finchaser due south headed for the Verm Blks.... Got out about 3 miles.. Seas were building to 2-3' with winds out of the east. Damn.. Weather man missed it again..

Had to pull back a little.. With 4 divers, gear, 8 tanks.. Finchaser had a load..

Still was able to do about 21 knots with the side sea. But it was water capping bad as we got farther out..

Got to a good depth change and the waves were a farther apart..

Well made to 75' of water. Geared up and over my son (Cody) and I went..

Snapper were EVERYWHERE... We saw Snaps up to 20-22#..

Well mangroves were far and few between... They had some legal scamps. so I shot a few of them 17-20"..

Cody made a pass at the other end of the platform.. Starts tapping his dive knife on the speargun.. Off of the merc come about a 6' ling..

Cody could never get a shot on him..


We moved platforms several times.. We finally found one platform with some nice mangroves..

Speared a few.. Saw a few small sharks at the surface as we decented down..

I was coming to the boat after my safety stop. When I was at the ladder taking my fins off, I looked down and out of nowhere there is a 6' shark about 10' down and to the side of me.. He smelled dinner hanging from my stringer.

Ended the day with a few mangroves and scamp grouper.. I could not believe scamps were such shallow water.

Coming in; it slicked off to 1-2'. It was an awesome day. Can't wait to get back out and get back into the water.. I'm back in So. Tx at work.

[duckman1911]

Sounds like an awesome trip gunner. You got a bigger ballz than I do bro. Be safe out there bro.

[mr crab]

Great Report. That is close for scamps. Glad yall found a few

[Crawl79]

Awesome trip! It is time to get my gear wet..

[Let um land]

Crossed a 24' with tanks at the no wake sign Saturday afternoon in rollover, had some friends came meet us at the camp that afternoon that wanted to make a quick crab run. Ya'll? If so ya bunch looked tired! Lol

[speck-addict]

How far out where you? Miles wise.

[biggun]

Must have been us.. About 4 PM? They also had a pontoon boat with young guys and gals with a BOAT LOAD of Little children, and BABIES in diapers with NO F ing Lifejackets on them..I wanted to Flip out on them..

Was that U??? Or were U the 2 gator tail boats pimped out just turning out of the landing that asked if we had done any good.

About 32 miles out..

Crawl79.. We always looking to dive with new guys.. Send me UR info if U'd like to be included.

Biggun

[Montauk17]

Always wanted to try spearfishing but can't get past the shark part. I'm a big puss when it comes to that.

[Let um land]

[QUOTE=biggun;705464]Must have been us.. About 4 PM? They also had a pontoon boat with young guys and gals with a BOAT LOAD of Little children, and BABIES in diapers with NO F ing Lifejackets on them..I wanted to Flip out on them..

Was that U??? Or were U the 2 gator tail boats pimped out just turning out of the landing that asked if we had done any good.

About 32 miles out..

Crawl79.. We always looking to dive with new guys.. Send me UR info if U'd like to be included.

Biggun[/


Gator Tails, our kids always have jackets.

[SuperDave]

That is something I've always wanted to do but I guess I'm concerned about the sharks....