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Ruby Red Lip
 
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| first off, i know how claydoh is about telling where he goes diving, but this one i don't think he'll mind. maybe it'll help everyone get out there and KILL THOSE F-ING SHARKS!!!!!!!!!!!! we got out today at about noon to the pete tide where we were greeted with 2 average sized bull sharks and 1 larger than average reef shark. there weren't very aggressive until they smelled the grouper i had on my stringer, so, powerhead was engaged......DUD.....no fire, which if anyone is wondering wheather the sharks like that or not...we'll go with not. we bailed on that dive, got to the boat, drank a beer and decided to go to the rubble pile nearby. not sure if it was csx or blackwater??? dont matter much. it was only about a mile ride and guess who followed us. i shot a decent grouper 12-15 ish pounds, brandy got a decent jack, the sharks came to us very agressive, getting too close to our comfort zone. brandy poked them very hard a couple times and aborted the dive. i stayed down putting the lift bag on the anchor so that we could get out of dodge when one of them got my stringer which i keep hooked to my gun with a 20' 3/8 nylon rope. after they ate 1/2 of the grouper i snatched my stringer from them which really pissed them off causing them to charge at me. i poked one directly in the eye, which he didn't like too much, so he circled back around at me. i turned my gun around to hit it with the blunt end. he got ahold of the nylon cut it off and took off with 2 stainless clips, and my stringer with grouper. i blew the lift bag and got the F#** out of there. everyone is safe, and slightly pissed off and the lack of fish brought back. i will be devoting my time over the coming months to thinning out these sharks. any diver that is using the powerhead as self defense can fire away and you can have 2 sharks per vessel i am told. LETS GO DEFEND OURSELVES LADIES AND GENTS!!!! OH........AND.......CLAY HAS SOMETHING TO ADD TO THIS POST THAT HE DIDN'T WANT MY VERSION OF IT POSTED. CHEERS GUYS ....SAFE DIVING
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Snapper
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Looking forward to the rest of the story. Great account of your dives........Thanks
WOW!!!!! WHAT A RIDE.
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White Marlin
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| Man, for the sharks to still be aggressive in the cold water, is really something. By this time last year, the sharks mostly disappeared once the water started to get cold. I guess they are just populating our wrecks more and more. Sean, keep your stringer on you man. Having it that far away just invites them to take a bite out of it. And in my opinion keeps them around a bit more. There are different schools of thought on that, but I have yet to have a shark take a fish away from me. Now a cuda is a different story.
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Snapper
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| I haven't been diving nearly as long as most of the guys on this forum, and spearfishing for even less time, but I'm of the same thought process as Telum Pisces. Keep it near your body, I think they (the sharks) are more apt to approach a lone stringer dangling 20 feet under a diver than they are one that appears to be part of the diver. This won't negate the situation, you will still have sharks come in on you, but with it being that close, you have more positive control over it. The more fish we can keep away from these sharks, the better off we are as spearfishermen. It's just like chasing girls, with the exception of my wife, in the past after several thwarted attempts of talking to some ladies I'd say F%@k this, I'm going to drink some beers. I don't know if a shark feels discouragement, but I'm going to do my part to discourage those things. Secondly....COOL report. I'm looking forward to hearing the other half/side of it. I'm glad to hear the grouper are starting to come in, that is my goal for the winter months, knock off some grouper. Thanks for the story.
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seanmclemore (11/28/2008)
OH........AND.......CLAY HAS SOMETHING TO ADD TO THIS POST THAT HE DIDN'T WANT MY VERSION OF IT POSTED. CHEERS GUYS ....SAFE DIVING That always seems to happen when Clay goes diving! As far as the stringer thing goes, I prefer the best of both worlds. I have a stringer with 10ft of 12strand tied to it in such a way that I can keep it wrapped up and clipped close to me, or I can drop it down 10ft where I can see the fish and the shark and I can defend them. Either way, there are too many sharks in the water and it's time we started doing more shark fishing. We saw 4 when we went out on Wednesday, 3 grey reef and 1 hammerhead. They are getting obnoxiously thick out there. They are about as endangered as red snapper!
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Ruby Red Lip
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| well, in reply to having the stringer on you...i agree and disagree at the same time. i always keep my stringer on my when i am spearfishing, but when you know that the sharks are circling you and are already agressive and you have to put the lift bag on the anchor with your back to them, i disagree with having it attached to you. these sharks were already bumping into us before we started shooting. now, why the hell would i turn my back to them with the fish attached to me without any buddies...i,e, clay who had already gone to the boat (which we planned so that they could follow the anchor line while i shot the bag. SAY WHAT YOU WANT, BUT WHEN YOU ARE IN THE SITUATION ALL BETS ARE OFF.
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Snapper
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Word = Freedom7
Changed the Signature to reflect the recent turn of events in the nearshore GOM... Good report but poppin' sharks just to pop them prolly isn't a great idea, if they are aggressive HellYa! B-oo-m Hate to waste a beast like that without cause.
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