Here are a few pictures from trips in the past couple weeks.
Couple recent trips
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That dorado is insane!
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Wow, that´s a world class bull. Still has its full hue on it!!
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Cojones! That's a massive bull. And the tuna not too shabby either Thanks for sharing chad.
Did the tuna give a hard fight? What's the rigging on the gun you shot it with?
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The tuna was shot using a homemade float (about 45 pounds of floatation) with a cam cleat, and a riffe bungie. The tuna took me and the float down to about 30 feet before I let go - the board went to about 80 feet before coming back up. I have been pleasantly surprised to find that the riffe bungie handles getting squeezed by the cam cleat without damage.
The tuna was 93 pounds.
The mahi was just under 54 pounds - a new state record - with my small snapper gun using a flopper. Fortunately, I hurt him badly with the shot.
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Damn dude,
that's a beautiful Dolphin. The Tuna ain't to shabby either:D. -
Headed back down to the coast in the morning. Getting close to finishing the camp - just trim and paint left. Will spend one day on the water, hope to continue the magic of the past couple weeks.
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Camp???
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yea, you know a fish camp.
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couple more pics
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Looks good. Can you give us some more info about it?
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Fish camp? Maybe those bay doors are for boats and the whole place is like a hotel for people going fishing? So they can stay close to their boats and make sure they don't get vandalized. Maybe I'm totally off.
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Like what kinda fishing, where's it at(and I don't mean La.)? Target group?
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It's near Venice. There are a few of us who shared the cost and will share its use. The bay doors are for boats. The living area is up top, so that if another hurricane comes it doesn't get wet unless the whole area is under more than 15 feet of water.
You guys in Florida are lucky, and unlucky, with how easy it is to get to the diving spots. I live 2.5 to 3 hours from the camp, and right now it's a 60 mile run to blue water. It's great diving here, but it's not easy - maybe it's great diving here because it's not easy.
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Nice place and great idea. What material is that on the exterior, and what material is under the rebar(form)? What is your interior wall sheathing? 60 miles out is definitely a run. 60 miles off of Florida and you're in the Bahamas.
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The exterior is sheet metal, again sheet metal under the 2nd story concrete deck, the interior walls are sheeted with louan (sp?). Had a bunch of friends down there helping the past couple days - finished the interior sheeting, got all the lights up downstairs, ran the main power feed, hooked up the AC equipment, hung the cabinets, hung all the interior doors, hooked up sinks, toilet, water heater, caulked, and did the crown and a good bit of the baseboards.
Had to resort to plan B on the diving since it was much rougher than forecast and blue water was WAY out there. We shot limits of 10-18 pound red snapper, a couple small cobia, a couple 10ish pound grouper, and about a half dozen 6-10 pound mangrove snapper. Not bad for a short day - the work crew was well fed.
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I guess you don't plan on getting out of spearfishing any time soon Are any of the guys that went in with you on this strictly H&L fishermen?
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The other guys don't dive. One fishes and the other is mostly interested in duck hunting.
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Do you have something special planned for a BBQ/outdoor cooking and eating area?
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Pretty dang sturdy. Post some pics up when you're done, if you don't mind. Why luan for the interior, and how are you going to finish it?
Plan B wasn't too bad by the sound of it.:thumbsup2:
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