Posts by seaweed

Very high quality video. It brings you in so much I flinched when he shot, and that wasn't even in HQ mode.

How much that thing weigh?

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Thanks Davie. Nice people. I would've kept the shark though

I was thinking the same thing.

It also doesn't look like a bull . Some people say it's a spinner shark which frequently jumps, so that explains that.

Video here

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/vid…/10/ruiz.shark.boat1.wsvn

There's a picture of it in the boat.

I've had them before a noticed no difference. I'll try and discern them this time.

Headed out of PE with my uncle in the Jonboat today. Conditions were 2-4 ft all day and crystal clear blue water. There was also a strong current predominant throughout the day.

We started on the first reef picking bugs, then we went to 2nd reef where I have a honey hole in 35' to round off our limits. Current made it tough be we managed the rest and left plenty behind for next time.

Cool part was when I found a big empty lobster shell. It was a molting and I was able to find the bug that molted it walking around the reef. I knew it was him because his shell was soft like a sponge.

With only an hour left we headed to the third reef to take turns drifting. My uncle caught a yellowjack then it was my turn. I saw 2 nice yellow jacks and when I go for the biggest one. As I aim I notice that the other yellowjack is actually a big mutton. So I chase him down to the bottom and he lets me get close so I whack him. Put up a nice fight and came in at about I'm guessing 8lbs.

My uncle jumps in again and hits another yellowjack. I jump in and as I drift I see a nice permit, about 15-20lbs. As I head down for it I'm going over the story I plan on telling the FWC on how we were 3 miles out doing bluewater diving on a jonboat. I hesitate and look around to see if there is anything else to shoot before I shoot the permit. I see a big mutton far away that looks like a cubera so I swim over. He wont let me get close and my air is low so I hail mary shoot and hit him. I was very surprised. Later in the boat I see that the shaft only went in about 1/2" past the flopper. If he would of thrashed he could of easily tore off.

Headed out with my uncle today got our limits of bugs and these 2 beauties.

26" and 24" mutton.

Homemade gun I made out of a bedpost.
Also known as "sweet dreams" since most fish are stoned.

63" shaft, 2 5/8's, poseidonsub mechanism, maorisub reel, Aimrite Handle (Free)

Likes- Really really accurate

Dislikes- Gun is delaminating due to the wood glue holding it together, now zip ties hold it together.

Mares Phantom Carbon 115 cm

Likes - looks cool

dislikes- everything else, bows like a bitch when loaded

Cant figure the gun out, accuracy is horrible with 2 5/8, and single 3/4 band is too slow for 7mm shaft.

Will try a 6.5mm shaft or 2 9/16s and see what's up.

Update on weighing:

I went lobstering from 8-30 ft during miniseason and switched to 5lbs of lead wearing shorts and a shirt.

Later in the day we went to 50-70 ft reef to shoot some fish. I forgot to change down to 2.5 lbs and decided to go ahead since I used to wear 6lbs before.

The difference was incredibly noticeable especially kicking up to the surface. I was neutral at about 15-20 ft but man I really felt it kicking back up. It was really uncomfortable trying to get back up and my dive times decreased from before for about 10-15s. I would reach the surface with the need to breath where as before I would hardly feeel the urge while diving longer.

A couple of dives in I changed back to 2.5lbs and all was well again.

They are not native.

Read this article from 2005
http://www.anapsid.org/floridaiguanas.html

"Wildlife officials approve of Johnson's trapping and euthanizing methods, which Johnson said are a lot more humane than what private homeowners were doing to the lizards. Although iguanas are not a protected species, state animal cruelty laws do apply."

So is it cruel to kill them or just to cause them harm for no reason?

I don't think they are the same Iguanas, these are beefy. I've seen some here easily pushing 6ft.

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An iguana is going to die.. What do you recommend to catch it? I have a long bow but many times they sit on the asphalt or pavement and I don't want to break any arrows.

A broomstick...

When I used to fish the everglades right as I would leave at dusk the frog catching crowd would come in. They use airboats to get them. There are no regulations here on frogs.

I hate those toads and would never touch them. The frogs I have no problem with.

Nice Frank. Slim pickings in Ft. Lauderdale, 7 for 2 guys, I dont think they moved in yet. We would only pick up one here and there as opposed to the usual 4 or 5 under one rock.

Sergio you need to go to that area by tenneco where we caught like 20 lobster under one rock.

My guess is that those big fish are snook congregating for spawning.

We saw a school of over100 fish all over a reef in 60fsw. The average weight was about 40-50 lbs.

Peek in the rocks with a light and shoot them.

If your breath hold is ok, go down away from the rocks and slowly swim towards them.

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I've seen them hang around the last bouy going out of PE which is 100 ft.

Bingo!!! I guess it was 100ft, no fish finder on board.

They were congregated on a floating object in 120-150 ft. I think that's the only place you can find them.

To him it is only 92 ft. I'm certain to him that's like a 30ft dive to us.

I had the opportunity to dive with Derek LeVault and he was filming some video. He would outdive the person he was filming and as soon as they got up he would follow the next person down a couple seconds later and do the same. He dove 120ft deep in 10ft vis and followed a hogfish around down there like it was nothing.

Just ate the rainbow runner and it was better than I expected and up there in the list now. It was like a combination of all the fish I like but not too much of any one fish.

The meat was light tan grayish and flaky but the flakes were very firm like a red grouper and stringy like a scallop only smaller strings. Taste was like a mutton/mackeral and the meat had it's own salt. The breader I used made it a bit saltier than I like. It had just enough light salty fishy taste but not the lingering aftertaste like a mackeral.

I had a piece with skin on it and it was a very very fishy taste like old frozen mackeral.

Salchichon = salami .

We didn't know the name of it in spanish so since it looks like a salami we called it that.Just like we call black margates bembones. Lots of meat on it, fillets will make a meal for 3 people today.