2nd Annual Key West Open

[normanhghntr]

The fish are getting big!! come on all you spearos head on down here and shoot some fish!! all proceeds are going to the red cross , great prizes, good food and friends, pick up the forms and rules at miami and the fl keys, chad if you need a boat ill lend you mine!!

[23six]

I'm looking to hitch onto someone's boat...I'm a freedive spearo. If you need more info on the event click here. (http://www.23six.com/keywest.html)

[Straightup]

I may have a spot open but we will be mostly freediving.

[blueh2oboy]

How many people have signed up for this year and how many people attended last year?
What were the top fish taken last year?
I'm interested in going and hopefully we can gather a good group of guys to come down there and have soem fun at the Tournament.
There are so many good fish down there and the chances for such a mixed bag should be hard to pass up.
DO you have a general concensus on how may and who is coming yet?

[Straightup]

Cam,
We got some room on our boat but we will be diving over thirty feet.

[Straightup]

There is some nice snorkeling that can be done around the bridges. This should give you East coast guys a good shot at the gray snapper division. Sorry I don't think they have a catogory for spotted wahoo.

[Straightup]

Last year stats
Please coorect me because this is just from my bad memory
Snapper 13LB cubera
Sport fish 60lb AJ
Grouper 55Lb black
I can not remeber the hog fish

[blueh2oboy]

Yeah i was actually thinking more along the lines of Garrison bight. There are some good secret spots in there that are in only 7-9 ft of water and given my ailments i've accumulated on foreign soil that is about as deep as i can effectively hunt. Am i correct that the elusive giant threadfin mullet is also in the sportfish category? They are plentiful under the docks at night and I've seen them well over a hundred lbs. God i hope so. If i have to leave the surface to shoot something there is no way i will be able to compete. You guys gonna be using those newfangled dart guns? I've seen some crazy looking guy in a camo get-up in some magazine shooting these giant catfish looking things they musta been shooting from the boat cause the water was only bout 5 feet deep. Think they call it abb ill-er or something. Guess the fish get so sick looking at the guy they just gone and give up! Gotta get me one of them things if i'm gonna make the big time.
See you savages down there.

[normanhghntr]

13lb cubera was correct hey straightup thats about the weight of the tooth around your neck!! chris did a great job getting first place in the snapper catagory, a brand new gun and a great trophy!! there are loads of big fish coming in right now, shot a fat mutton, and saw a few big big big blacks!!! see you all fri!!!

[blueh2oboy]

Weather looks like it is going to be shite. Can it be 2 weekends and 2 tourneys in a row.... Better not. Some Keys fish need to die

[Screen Name]

Originally posted by Straightup
Cam,
We got some room on our boat but we will be diving over thirty feet.

You guys don't want to dive with other people............remember, they might inadvertently shoot Dane with their speargun and drown and stuff. :D

[blueh2oboy]

GR taught me this weekend how to dive deeper than 30 ft.
All you have to do is head for the bottom in 60 ft, lay there for a minute or so and wait for a pair of 8 ft Dusky's to take your 2 hogfish and your float down to your same deptha nd then drag you along at 5 knots. If you can return to the surface don't worry they will immediately drag you back down to a depth of their shosing while one of them circles back and tries to eat the end of your gun. Seems to work pretty well, kind of like an underwater scooter except with big teeth and avoracious appetite. Hope you guys enjoyed the show while they frothed the water and i sat unsuspecting on the bottom. Great spot though. GR got and Chris both shot 7-8 lb MAngroves. Ritchie Slacker managed an excuse about having a date that night and something about messing up his hair and stayed in the boat if i remember correctly. Or was he tanning in his speedo. Damn red tide dive/dance team, you never can tell what they are up to.

[Red Tide]

O.K. Biatccch Boy,
Don't be giving up family secrets. Ritchie still has enough memories of you in a speedo to stop dating for two weeks.
Me , you, Key West in a speedo, should keep the Spear Board Voyers in a frenzey for a while.
Stay tuned for the results.


Red Tide

[normanhghntr]

Dane i hope your not startn trouble again!!!;( any way the weather is shaping up the front is gonna pull on through, ant they are calling for 10-15 from the north!! even if its 20 thats still 10-15 less than last year, off with the skirts and lipstick boys and girls!!!

last year
70lb aj
59.5 lb black
13 lb cubera
7lb hog
4 lb tequilla
10 lb captain morgan
1 bottle of asperin
see you all there and get ready the international "TOP GUN" tourn is on the way 2nd weekend in june, freedive only!!!!