Posts by japsw

  • Broward Beach Conditions

    maybe old news but becareful out there


    Police are searching for a hit-and-run boater who struck a scuba diver Friday afternoon off Fort Lauderdale beach.


    Emergency crews took Perry Anderson, 37, to Broward General Medical Center with injuries that are not life threatening, Fort Lauderdale police said.


    Anderson and two other divers had kayaked out from the beach and attached a dive flag to the kayak. While diving, a single-engine boat hit Anderson and continued south without stopping, Fort Lauderdale Det. Travis Mandell said.It happened at about 2:20 p.m. near the 3500 block of North Ocean Boulevard.


    [url=http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/broward/fort-lauderdale/fl-lauderdale-diver-injured-20110930,0,5501382.story]Scuba diver hit: Fort Lauderdale police search for boater who struck scuba diver - South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com[/url]

  • Broward Beach Conditions

    Quote from Nate

    So, my roommate has been working an angle on this chick who lives next door. He's got her coming over for dinner tonight, and he hit me up last night asking if there was any way I could hook him up with a few lobster. Apparently these land dwellers don't check water conditions, but I've got this inability to say the word "no." After class today, the mission was a go. I put in at 12:45pm, out at 1:30pm. My plan was simple.. get to where I was going, hit 1 ledge and grab at least 2 bugs, when I had those 2, I was coming in. Well, when I hit the first ledge and there were 6 bugs, I couldn't help myself. Even though the swell is up, it's really not that bad once you get through the surf. My only worry is the yak disappears from sight in the trough of the waves, and boaters damn near run me over even when they CAN see it in calm seas. I didn't even bring a gun, just a minimalist approach. On the way back in, I had everything stowed in the hull, I'm not so confident in my landing skills. Sure enough, I rolled on the way in, the first time in my year of yak diving. So, 45 minutes, 6 roller coaster stricken bugs, and a headache later, I've got an in debt roommate. I told him if he gets lucky, he owes me a steak.. I'm getting burnt out on seafood.
    Viz was 20 in 15ft.
    Swell was oddly enjoyable, even though it kicked my ass.
    Total haul was 6 bugs and I almost caught a triggerfish in the net.


    You have balls of steel

  • Hogfish and conservation

    Quote from pantoja

    sure thing , there's more people hunting today , that is a fact , and tomorrow there'll be even more. if it's a personal choice of yours to shoot only 16 " hog fish so be it. still i don't think there's need for it. where i'm from there has been a decline in the mutton population , a big, huge decline, but this year there was so much mutton that you can't imagine, and every year there's more and more fishermen. i sure think that there'll be a day when the fish will be so scarse that we'll swimm for hours and come out clean. but the reason for it won't be us. i think.


    The thing is to avoid that day, but I am by no means a biologist for FWC so I guess we can wait for them to make there bright decisions <img src= " class="smiley" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x" height="23" width="23" loading="eager" data-tooltip="biggrin" aria-label="biggrin"> Ill keep shooting my 16"+ hogs and hope for the best in the long run. And I agree on the muttons this year was alot better then last year.

  • Hogfish and conservation

    Quote from pantoja

    those making the mistake of measuring the wrong way should pay for it , but it does not mean that because of it there should be a change in size from 12 to 16 like stated. education and more control will do the job. but regulating us more without any actual study of any kind will just put the rope to our own necks . i don't think we are doing anything wrong by respecting the law. don't try to make lurkers think so and give them ammo to screw us. if anyone here thinks that going in the ocean to watch butterfies is the shit , then go for it . but i consider myself a hunter in the ocean or land and will never stand for any unjustified closures . i do not agree with the statement that hogfish is declining because they come around or not very season. and it needs a study to find out if there's a decline in the population. i've been fishing for a long time and this is the way it is. when they spawn , sometimes there's a lot of them and some other times there's not so much. and the ones that are here today will not be next year. the decline in fish stock is not in the hogfish population but all fish population , all over the world. .and all other land species too. so , come on guys , think.


    I see where your coming from but its a fact that hogfish change sex at about 14" when the need for a male in the group arises, a hog takes 3 years to reach 12" which is still not old enough for them to peak in reproduction. :S maybe im over thinking this? you have to remember there is more people hunting today then there was 10-20 years ago.

  • Hogfish and conservation

    Quote from Dan

    I think Miami hogfish are genetically different than the hogfish in Cuba. Here a hogfish can be shot and injured 2-3 times over a period of a few months, and still allows a diver to approach it. In Cuba they don't need to have a bad experience with a diver to become weary, they're naturally weary. Maybe it comes from many years of pressure where only the cautious fish survived to reproduce.


    "pico de pato" Dan what part of Cuba did you fish?

  • Hogfish and conservation

    Anyone notice a decline in hogfish over the past couple of years? I remember going to any patch reef and picking and choosing through them anywhere from Miami down to the lower keys. Hogfish are supposed to spawn between the months of November and June, so why not have some closed season or up the minimum size to 16" since most don't reach maturity to 14" yet they are gtg at 12"? Every spearfishermen I have talked to agrees on declining stocks and need for large bag size. What say you??????

  • Closures again

    More regulations don't mean a thing if they can't be enforced. Also the commercial fishing and fresh water dumping are the real concerns.

  • Broward Beach Conditions

    Quote from sdeisen

    yeah thats all true also
    at my work we call them catalufas as well,


    and japsw when there are other fish around I ignore them as well but to be honest I find it better than mangroves or similar sized snappers just a little less yeild.. I could tell you the ceviche it made was hogfish and youd believe it.


    going to have to try it, to be honest I only shoot mangos if they are over 18-20 inches, not a fan of cleaning small fish unless its hog <img src= " height="23" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x">

  • Broward Beach Conditions

    Quote from sdeisen

    I miss olga did you scare her off :rolleyes: <img src= " height="23" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x">


    Shoredive half way down south today,,10-130,, got out to the second and found a new spot that looked PERFECT for hogs,, I followed it for 2 hourrs and didnt see a single hog,, which sucks..
    anyways eventually found some very big toros swimming against the current and I wound up with two of the biggest ones. Thats all i saw in the way of fish today,, but now i have ceviche which is great cause i cant afford to buy meat anymore <img src= " height="23" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x">


    hows the meat on those things? i always toss them back when doing H/L fishing?(

  • 9/2/11

    thanks guys <img src= " height="23" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x">