Broward Beach Conditions

I won't be shorediving very often now

uughh the water is gettin cold and the air is even colder!
sorry in advance to all u cali/lousiana guys and olga in russia,, i know 72 degree water an 52 degree air may not seem like anything to cry about

meade solo today 10am
ocean pretty flat as i paddled out and pretty choppy as i came back in (1:30ish)
started at second reef and swam into the first then south along ledge.
viz was pretty poor and it varied from spot to spot.
skys looked pretty clear but somehow i was in the shade the majority of the day, fish were pretty active though. big schoools of spades, porkfish, grunt and margates moving around. i managed a couple hogs before the air inside my snorkel finally started to freeze and the seas picked up.
hope everyone else out there is staying warm!

what?? the air inside of your snokel froze?? lol really?

haha, no but it sure felt like it

haha i know what you mean.. but count yourself lucky because when I woke up this morning, it was 35 degrees here in Tampa! Imagine diving in that! lol

starting to look good out there...

http://magicseaweed.com/Fort-Lauderdale-Surf-Report/837/

that will flip a kayak

in the surf maybe... lol. But the seas are looking better and thats good for viz!

yeah just the swells,, viz was much better at the end of last week than it was yesterday which is weird,, but im sure with all these cool, rainless days ittle get better again soon

I should have my yak by the end of next week. Hope to meet up with you guys soon. :yay:

sounds good jbrew
thinkin bout hitten the water in the a.m,, supposed to be the coldest morning of the week though,,

hell yeah J brew...awesome more yak spearos

1100 am north of dania peir with scott
it was cold as balls, but the viz was damn near perfect, at least earlier on. we could see fish in 30 feet of water lookin over the sides of the kayaks. pretty mellow sees on the way out some swellls but very little chop.. the wind really picked up and shifted after about 2 and a half hours though and some chop built up. didnt see much on the way from the second into the first,, zero macks lately which is a bummer i love macks there so fun to hunt and easy to clean.. any way i hit a section of ledge along the first that was super lively and missed a very nice hog.. definetly 25++ inches.. and it took my shakey hands so long to reload that he got away,, plus the first shot really spooked him.. besides that not too much a lot of 11-15 icnh hogs we ignored and the usual,, more margate and porgies out than usual. we crossed over the easternmonst point of the euro jacks and theere was a ton of life in there,, scott chased a decent hog around in them but to no avail.. i saw the biggest green sea turtle ive ever encountered over the second and it let me pet its head and stuff and didnt bug out at all just chilled there with a doofy expression on its face.. which was as cool as shootin any fish i think,,, and saw a lot of nurse sharks which is nice.
stay warm everybody

Sounds like a rewarding day. It happens sometimes like that on days that make you debate whether to go out or not, such as now because of the cold. Watch out for those sea turtles, I heard they can snap at your hand turning their head backwards.

anyone with an extra yak or a tandem want to go out friday??? I'd dying to get back in the water!

ben id love to but got work, good luck gettin out there the viz should be good.
and dan yeah i beleive it this guy had a mean lookin beak on him,,

I saw a pretty mellow huge turtle on monday north of the inlet he had some healed up shell damage or growth on the rear left. He was walking around on the bottom like a dog. Maybe it was the same one.

thats what this one was doing,, very wel could be the same one