Posts by Undefendable

We definitly don't limit every time. There's not many good days to run offshore here in a 20'CC, it gets rough, so when we can make it out we try and make it count. I'm not worried about overfishing my spots. I've probably only taken 25 grouper this year and we left that many still swimming around this one spot yesterday, which was only a small area in a large field of live bottom. Not many people dive here and they are tough on hook and line. I'm also only going to be here maybe another year, military.
My buddies got into this with me at the same time last year. I just train harder and take better care of my gear, plus I'm the one with the boat and the spots, so that makes me feel better. I think I went a little overboard yesterday though, next time I'll slow my roll and give them more opportunity.

Here in NC gags are the only grouper around and the limit is only 1 per person. I'm a little better than my buddies and usually wind up shooting more than 1 before we limit out, but I feel kind of bad about it. Interested in how you guys work this problem. Do you only shoot your personal limit and let the rest of your buddies get thiers? I keep diving for other fish but when I see a 15lb gag its darn hard not too shoot it. Some of my buddies are not great and we hunt deep water, left to thier own devices I'm not real confident they would wind up getting theirs. Yesterday 4 of us in the water I shot 3 of the 4 grouper and a Cobia. My friends don't seem to mind, we split all the fish evenly no matter who got them, but again I feel a bit guilty.

I am by no means experianced, but I've so far had encounters with bulls, sandbar, dusky, spinner and blacktips. They all seem to approach you differently but for most part its a cautious and curious type approach. Being aggressive with them, swimming towards them, jabbing at them has so far worked to convince them I'm nothing they need to mess with and they move on pretty quickly. This has all been floating on the surface with no fish in hand. Though one did start circling me shortly after he ate a fish I shot. The first encounter freaked me out, it gets me less so everytime, but I still have a healthy respect for them, keep my head on a swivel and am prepared for one to turn on me unexpectadly.
I had one rush me on the bottom while holding a grouper, I dropped the fish and calmly swam to the surface. Lost sight of both, when I got to the surface I started hauling up the fish and never saw the shark again.

Haha no I dive with one, B/U shot. Hit him long shot swimming away from me in the shoulder, shaft went through to the back of his skull but didn't penetrate so during the fight it backout out till the flopper was barely under an uncomfotably small peice of skin.

Thanks! Still kind of newb, but I do ok. Pics as requested (if they work) was actually in the neighborhood last Sept and got a pair of C90s from Dan, awesome fins!

Been at it almost a year. Took the class with Ren and Ashley. Have a wetslip 20'CC run out of Topsail to hunt gags, mahi, cobia etc. Have one friend that goes with me but he has ear troubles and is deploying soon so might need some new dive buddies.