Jan 16 KW no current on the " Bar"

[Md Spear]

NO CURRENT It was nice & calm today. First of 4 tanks spent Bug diving. Capt Steve from Subtropic Dive Shop went w/ me and we hit one of his Lobster spots East of Sand Key. Scooped up 9 fatbugs ,passed over lots of shorts[ next yrs dinner]. 2nd tank we went to east end of the "Bar" 1 mile out fom the K marker .
50-60 ft of vis blue 75.5'F water. I think we saw Mobile Diver cat diving inside reef line near K marker. Anchor line lay slack w/ no current. Chased 4 grouper @ 50 ft deep, but failed to kill. Settled for stickin afew hogs.
Next Bar site the saftey current line behind the Scarab became a mouse nest around the motors due to 0 current. Saw 1 grouper running away, settled for hogs.
4th tank in the middle of the Bar I finally caught one dozing and was able to kill it. [26" rather thin grouper ]shot some gray snapper & a few more hogs. Capt Steve was circled by about a dozen enormous ocean amberjacks. He said they looked to be 4+ feet in lenght. I saw a school of 60 or so Atlantic spade fish hanging around the anchor line
Did more hunting than killing today.
An absolutely fatastic winter dive day in Key West. Tomorrow may be last calim day as new weather pattern predicted for Sunday


WADE reverting to hunter gatherer

[Mobile Diver]

I was out there all right. Wish I found as many bugs as you. Only got one & had to let two go. Killed a 21lb black on the Cayman. The viz was awesome again; looked like the Bahamas. We need to hook up sometime; we're burning double fuel. Take care.

[Md Spear]

Mobile Diver

killing on the Caymen..... how did you find a time w/ no dive shop boats w/ diving tourists so you could kill there? The few times I dove it the grouper instantly bee lined deep into the coral gardens ocean side. I could not even film them. They did look good to eat.
How to harvest the Caymens Grouper population has always intrigued me.
Wade

[Mobile Diver]

I dive it at night a fair amount. Killed a 23lb Gag there last week on a night dive. This last time I got there @ 8am. A dive boat arrived just as I was getting ready to leave. And the coral just north of there will hold fish when a lot of divers have been around, but I have not been able to kill anything there, ...yet.