SPEARIT
01-04-2004, 07:27 AM
Took member Gumshoe and 2 of my mates out to see where the gags are. Left New River Inlet 0830 running S/SE with the seas about 2ft chop. Ran 33 miles till we found 60deg water so I put them on a ledge that was marking good fish. 111ft of water with about 5-6ft of relief. It was a productive dive with all 3 getting fish and I could have filled cooler with black bass(the biggest I've seen in about 15 years). Vis was real snotty on descent but cleared out real good on the bottom to 40-60ft. I was going to move to another ledge further offshore to try to get some reds and scamps(we were close to the rec. limit on gags) but they said the fish were there so I just moved down the ledge about .15 of a mile for the second dive. Besides the wind was building, 15-20knts S/SW seas 4ft whitecapped chop. Second dive about the same, plenty of gags, no bugs and only two small hogs(probably around 10lbs) too small to shoot. Not a bad day overall, ended up with 8 gags(1 18.9lbs, 1-16, rest over 10lbs), some black bass, caught 1 King Snake and Bonita on the light line. Back at the dock tied up at 1445. No pics now but I think the guys took some so maybe later.