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04-30-2008, 05:20 PM | #46 |
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Re: Barracuda?
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04-30-2008, 05:23 PM | #47 |
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I lost a NICE fat yellow jack to one a week or so ago. had it on my stringer, turned around and saw myself pulling a 5.5' cuda instead of my dead fish. Wanted to kill it, but didn't want to risk losing a shaft on a fish I knew I wouldn't eat. My buddy had one bite off the blade from his omer footpocket while he was fighting an AJ he speared.
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04-30-2008, 05:39 PM | #48 |
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Re: Barracuda?
probably one of the stupidest spearfishing related things i've done was shooting this fish. I didn't have a knife on me or a floatline or reel. Fortunately the shot hit his spine and all it could do was snap with its jaws lol.
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04-30-2008, 05:45 PM | #49 | |
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04-30-2008, 09:54 PM | #50 |
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Re: Barracuda?
i remember when i was little I would always see cudas of all sizes when i'd go snorkeling off elliot in like 20ft, long before I started spearing. Now I rarely see them except on deep wrecks and a couple specific deep spots.
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05-01-2008, 05:43 AM | #51 |
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Re: Barracuda?
yeah they get hammered commercialy pretty bad a guy last year told me that he can get up to 3800lbs a night off the bouys in stuart and that he still uses a drag type of gill net to get them...............made me pretty mad
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05-01-2008, 08:29 AM | #52 |
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your not looking in the right spots, i go off elliot usually and can find tons of them, some very large.
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05-01-2008, 08:35 PM | #53 |
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are they specifically targeting the cudas or is that bycatch? And who the hell would buy that quantity of barracuda? or ANY barracuda??
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05-01-2008, 08:43 PM | #54 |
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05-01-2008, 08:48 PM | #55 |
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^^^ lol "chefs secret". I shoot with a friend that has his RS and we sell probably 100lbs of cudas per weekend to fish markets.. where they go from there is anyones guess
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05-02-2008, 08:19 PM | #56 |
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Re: Barracuda?
I will say this... if you are not experience shooter,don't mess with them but I have friends that have not mercy with them,they eat them and assure taste excellent,I've shot them but gave them to my friend he loves them..
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05-02-2008, 10:10 PM | #57 |
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05-02-2008, 10:40 PM | #58 |
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Re: Barracuda?
If you cant find cuda this time of year of in South Florida you are not diving in the ocean. They are everywhere. Find a wreck & you'll find cuda.
But don't shoot them. Patrick would starve.
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05-02-2008, 11:22 PM | #59 |
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I've shot a couple freediving. The first one was about 3.5' and tasted great. easy to clean and nice white meat. The next weekend I get a 4' one. I think great but when I fillet him the meats kind of grey and taste like mud. So I'll stick to the smaller ones. they do make a test for cig. called cigucheck. the jaws come out nice see my avatar.
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05-03-2008, 12:24 AM | #60 |
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the fish house we sell to down here buys them in bulk, i mean containers full to ship to africa. to many for us to shoot. can any one from africa chim in?
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