Started down the anchor line into an abyss of pea soup.  It kept getting darker and darker till my speartip hit something hard.  I could not see what it hit..  I inch a little closer and see the wreck.  I look up and wait till Jeff comes within a distance that we can see each other and tell him to abort the dive.  We could not see a damn thing.  After all the talk of good viz last week, I was hoping for the same.  But appearently, the rough seas over this past weekend shook up a mess into the water.

So we talk a bit about where we want to go next realizing that we were going to have to farther south to get into some clearer water.  We head to some natural bottom and get down to 20 foot visibility or so.  We proceed to find some good ledges and see monster red snapper everywhere.  I swear they have a clock.  This spot was loaded with small AJ's as well.  I litterally had a cloud of them swim with me keeping me in the center of their school the entire time.  Probably 50-60 of them.  It was pretty cool.  I see some big eyes hanging out and I remember someone telling me that they were some good eating.  So I put one on the stringer for a taste test.  Jeff came up with a smallish grouper (23-24" or so).  The grouper were just not were we went today for some reason. That was the end of the dive.

We head out futher to another location that I have dove that I know holds plenty of good fish.  We drop down to another pea soup with 15-20 feet of viz.  But as soon as I get down, a school of AJ swim by and I pop a good one.  Stoned him dead in his tracks.  That's always a good feeling.  We came up and went to pull the anchor only to find it stuck.  I guess the anchor made up it's mind for us where we were going to dive for our third dive.  So after a short surface interval, we headed back down to find the anchor had drug into some rebar.  Got the anchor out and went on the hunt for some grouper.  None to be found on my part.  Jeff did get another grouper though.

Total for the boat was two AJ's, two grouper, and one big eye.  Not a real productive day.  But it satisfied my addiction for a bit since I had not been out in while.  It was VERY cold out there though.  Surface temp was 65-67 degrees.  And my computer read in the 50's for the bottom.  But I don't think that was right.  But I did get cold in my 7 mil suit.  So I don't know what to believe.  No pictures of the adventure.  It was to damn cold to get the camera out to take pics. 

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Yeah, I thought about that Josh.  What you can't see don't hurt ya right.  But it was spooky heading down there on that first dive with all the shark stories recently.  That's why I did not want to even attempt to look around for fish in 4'-5' viz on that first dive.  I did that once and had a shark swim by me where I couldn't see the head and the tail at the same time and about browned my suit.  It's bad when they sneak up on you in good viz.  It's a totally different ballgame when they do it in next to nothing viz.

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sorry i didnt take a few pics of the two grouper i shot. werent too impressive though. everyone use you imagination.

both were 22-23". not a great day. vis sucked though.

SSI

Sniper Spear-It

If you're not afraid to shoot it, its not big enough!!!

Haven't eat it yet.  Will probably try it this weekend or so.

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Jon

released one once huh Jeff....How'd that work out for you?