Rescue at sea

[LeMonstier]

Gene and I went out last Friday.
There was a nice size tog that had gorged itself on crabs and mussels and we all know what happens when we go swimming after eating, well Gene ended up having to rescue this tog from drowning with his spear gun then ate it.

[the fishing pro]

where did you get it

[LeMonstier]

wildwood. Where did you get the monkfish? That is one of the only fish I will buy at the fish market. It's amazing how well it cooks on the grill as kabobs. I saw a huge one once in North Wildwood while diving at night with a little tiny net and a flash light. I was looking for tropical fish for the fish tank and swimming really close to the rocks. The monk fish was about 6 inches from my mask when it revealed itself with it's big ugly teeth. It was so ugly and awesome.

My first choice of an ironic death is to be killed by a taxidermy mount of a Great White shark that falls off a wall and kills me but my second choice of an ironic death would be to be eaten by a school of monk fish.

Come to think of it, oceanic bottom feeders are my favorite fish. Sea Robins, Oystercrackers and fish like that are the coolest things in the North Atlantic. Well, next to underwater pirate ghosts and Oarfish of course..

[The Bug hunter]

thats my brothers post and i will answer for him because he wasnt there when we got it. it was about 17lbs and we got it on rocks a little north of sea girt reef and yea they are evil one attacked my dad.

[LeMonstier]

What is Sea Girt reef? Is it a shore dive or out there a bit?

[The Bug hunter]

its about 5 or 6 miles out of belmar nj and has over 20 ship wrecks that were sunk on purpose for fishing and diving. But we got the monk on rocks north of it in 75ft of water. Google sea girt reef and you will sea all the wrecks that are on it.

[jmik90]

were you guys scubadiving?

[OysterToadFish]

Nice tog

[The Bug hunter]

Wrecks and rock piles out of shark river inlet.

[jmik90]

Wrecks and rock piles out of shark river inlet.

not where were you scubadiving,i was asking were you scubadiving or if you were really good at freediving.

[The Bug hunter]

Yea we were scuba diving.

[D The Impaler]

whats your average visibility out there at 75'??

[jmik90]

im cool with scuba as long as you guys stay in 60-70ft range anything shallower and im not a fan

[The Bug hunter]

Visibility is usually good we have had it every now and then that we couldn't see our hand in front of your face but usually we can see 15-20 ft and a few times we had 35+ feet. And the vis gets way better the farther out you go like 15-20 miles out the water is usually blue and clear on the surface but that doesnt always mean the bottom is clear but a lot of times it is good vis and that makes the dive way more fun

[Jersey Jim]

LeMonstier, here is a monk fish I got on the offshore paddlewheeler (on scuba) back in May of 2006. Not sure how much it weighed. Man I must have cabin fever, replying to a 7 month old post!

[LeMonstier]

I'm kinda proud of myself. It was a good post, full of silly nonsense...


"My first choice of an ironic death is to be killed by a taxidermy mount of a Great White shark that falls off a wall and kills me but my second choice of an ironic death would be to be eaten by a school of monk fish.

Come to think of it, oceanic bottom feeders are my favorite fish. Sea Robins, Oystercrackers and fish like that are the coolest things in the North Atlantic. Well, next to underwater pirate ghosts and Oarfish of course.."