DiveGal
07-27-2006, 03:32 PM
diverik scared me out of diving Ft. Pierce and we went to West Palm. I really wanted to start diving at midnight, just to have done it. Well, like I've seen from other posters, the bugs all go somewhere at night and aren't in or on the reef. :confused: Apparently, everyone else in WP knows this. We were the only boat on the water all night!
In the Keys, I understand that they go out on the grass flats to feed. But we don't have grass flats around here. Are they just out in the sand feeding or is there some special night time lobster party going on somewhere?
Between midnight and 5 am, 3 divers each doing 3 dives caught a whooping 3 lobster. We entered the water for our 4th dive around 5:30ish AM and could tell when the sun was coming up. It was so cool. Everything on the reef was coming to life and the lobster were walking from the sand to the reef. I limited on this one dive. WOW!!!
I went down on the next dive to 'observe' the other two divers. They limited out on the second morning dive. By this time the bugs had made it back to the reef but were just sitting in their holes watching the world go by - easy pickins.
Many were still carrying eggs, but none were short.
Never saw an FWC boat, never got checked, had no line at the ramp, yada, yada, yada... Unbelievable.
I still enjoyed the night diving, but no bugs. Where DO they go?
BTW, we had less that 2 foot seas all night. We were in 50 foot of water with 50 foot of vis and 78 degree bottom temp. Great day!
Dive Safe! Dive Often!
In the Keys, I understand that they go out on the grass flats to feed. But we don't have grass flats around here. Are they just out in the sand feeding or is there some special night time lobster party going on somewhere?
Between midnight and 5 am, 3 divers each doing 3 dives caught a whooping 3 lobster. We entered the water for our 4th dive around 5:30ish AM and could tell when the sun was coming up. It was so cool. Everything on the reef was coming to life and the lobster were walking from the sand to the reef. I limited on this one dive. WOW!!!
I went down on the next dive to 'observe' the other two divers. They limited out on the second morning dive. By this time the bugs had made it back to the reef but were just sitting in their holes watching the world go by - easy pickins.
Many were still carrying eggs, but none were short.
Never saw an FWC boat, never got checked, had no line at the ramp, yada, yada, yada... Unbelievable.
I still enjoyed the night diving, but no bugs. Where DO they go?
BTW, we had less that 2 foot seas all night. We were in 50 foot of water with 50 foot of vis and 78 degree bottom temp. Great day!
Dive Safe! Dive Often!