Dove some nice ledges in 100 feet. Vis was about 40 feet. H2O temp on bottom was 72 and 88 on the surface. Had a huge bull shark helping me pick out which fish to shoot. Saw lots of red snapper on the bottom but couldn’t pull the trigger on them. Big grouper kept just out of kill range. Shot a nice hog snapper and at the end of the dive shot a 10 plus pound sheepshead and left him hanging on the spear when surfacing. That turned out to be a mistake. The wounded fish sent out a dinner bell signal to the barracuda. Swimming the 50 yards back to boat and all of a sudden I get pulled back and down under the water. Looked down and barracuda were eating the sheepshead and a huge barracuda was up against my leg getting ready to attack the hog snapper which was attached to my BC. Quickly clipped it to the speargun cord and the barracuda immediately started ripping it apart. Very scary situation to be in.
Bottom fished and landed some nice BSB and snapper.
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Plufmud this is Jim went diving with you january 09. Ya’ll need to lift bag those fish. We have been diving off a bouy ball and lift bagging it is easier and alot safer. I had a bad situation with a bull shark last winter, and said then that I would never carry them on me anymore. Just make shure you are free from the lift bag that is the only danger.
when we dive we always use a boat driver to stay over our bubbles, (usually the next set of divers), always use lift bags and the boat picks them up before the cudas and sharks have time to think about them! use an anchor ball on the down line so the boat is free to follow your bubbles!
If it got any better I couldn’t stand it.
One can bet I will never carry fish up strapped to my side again. Way too dangerous.
I had my lift bag with me but was too lazy to inflate and attach the fish. Never again.
Jim, I have been trying to get in touch with you. Mike couldn’t find your phone number. Will you email it to me? Plufmud@hotmail.com
Thx, Steve
S’ville Angler
“E-Sea Living”
2870 Pursuit w/twin 225 Yamahas
Glad to see you made it out Steve.I assume you got rid of your boat seeing that you are in Neals.We need to get together soon.All my gear is being serviced now but should have it back soon.