What a beautiful flat calm ocean yesterday for those that made it out. We had been planning to go to an out-of-the-way spot that we had never dove before for quite a while and the conditions finally lined up for us. We checked the first spot for some freediving but the vis was really poor (prolly from the rain). We went down 70ft or so to the anchor chain and weren’t seeing any fish so we moved to a big school of spades for the newby spearfishing boys on the boat to shoot the gun a little. We shot 2 at a time for a bit and then moved on to the deeper spot hoping it would hold a bunch of African Pompanos.
We marked the spot with a marker line and then anchored down current from it. I was the last one in the water and they made a few drops not seeing more than AJs and within 30 seconds of being in the water i swam down and shot a mid-upper 40’s cobia. The shaft was stuck right in the spine so i pretty much had to cut the spine and break its neck back to get the shaft out. Regrouped and went back out and next drop i saw a school of kings. Got a good shot on one but within 1 minute the barracudas came in chasin it. It went crazy and as it swam past me i watched 5 cudas tear it to shreds 5 feet from my face. It was awesome!!!
We did a few more drops down to 50 ft and was mostly just AJs and cudas. Then my buddy missed a king and i dropped down right by the boat to only about 30 feet and the African i was looking for came in. I got a good shot on him but he got all tangled on the marker buoy line so it took a team effort to get him to the boat before the cudas ate him.
I was telling my buddy Jake on the way out how alot of freediving is luck with timing ur dives and sometimes there is a lucky guy on the boat. For whatever reason i got to be the lucky guy yesterday. I felt bad for my other experienced guys not seeing anything but we are
