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Im1chunkymunky · 10-09-2006, 12:00 PM

so i skipped a few trip reports, including some cobias, and snappers, mackerel, triggers, and of course cudas...yesterday was no exception.

les, shane, patrick and myself decided to try some bluewater diving early saturday morning. we had the boat out the inlet just as the sun was peeking over the horizon, figuring we'd find a weedline witin 10 miles due to the easterly winds all week, we set out at full throttle due east. after 7 miles of nothing we go north and make a loop heading back west towards shore, then all of the sudden, shane makes a statement..."this is why i dive b/c i hate just sitting on the boat looking for places that MIGHT have fish", i told you all of that to tell you this story (as pointless as that was, you know you had nothing better to do than read an entertaining tale of ADD spearos, or you would be working, and not on spearboard

): so we ended up at our favorite reefs and the fun begins (after 2 hours of, well...boat riding). first stop on the way to the reefs was a buoy drop, with absolutely nothing. next spot, another buoy loaded with blue runners, and barely legal triggers. so shane (experimenting w/ his new gun, all one shot,

, then switching to ol' trusty) and patrick (perfecting the delicate art of scaring fish

) shoot a few runners to burly and a trigger tries attacking patrick to get his fish, so what does he do? being the stealth, cannonball, bellyflop, ninja diver that he is, he sticks the trigger with his RA knife and gets it!!! i never woulda believed it if i hadnt seen the trigger flopping on the end of his knife above the water from the boat. shot another runner then moved on to the reefs. we didnt see much on the first set, so drifted over the next reef down. shot a cuda to sell, and luckily had a good shot b/c my shooting line got tangled on my bands preventing my shooting line from pulling out reel line, so i had to drag him up from 50 ft. shane took the second drop and stalked a nice black that kept just out of range, but before surfacing the fish sniper spots a nice mangrove about 10 ft off his right hip, and from swinging the gun off the black to the mango, lining up the shot and then executing, didnt take more than 3 seconds. about a 6 lb mango. next drift, saw a ray cruising across the reef w/ 3 cobia on it. i took a rushed breath and hauled ass down. following the cobes for a moment i line up on the biggest of the 3 and place the shaft a few inches behind the gills but a little low. the shot was taken from the length of the mono so the shaft only entered 1/2 way. he tried wrapping up on rumble so i kept tension as i ascended, then to really piss me off i had to tug of war with a MONSTER jewfish that attempted to swallow my cobia, only being stopped by the shaft, and my tugging. after gettin the jewy to let go he tried to hole up again, but i managed to keep him up, and just as i grabbed the shaft and was about to shove it all the way through, he ran so i let him go as i didnt want him to tear off. after gettin half way down he tore off. F********CK!! looking back i shoulda made one more kick and lined up a little better, and asked for another gun (which was hard to do while battling a fish 3 times my weight in tug of war over another fish), and also diving down to the fish to avoid the surface fight, and either shoved the shaft through or bear hugged him down at like 15 ft. next drift, once again i see the ray, and make a dive, lined up on the next biggest cobe (the other one took off, and prob died) and the safety somehow got switched on, after flipping that off, as the fish were swimming off i made a quick line up and missed an inch low and grazed the ray. (i will now seriously consider removing the safeties on my guns) made one more drop on that reef found nothing and returned to the first spot. i made a drop on the rubble just down current from the wreck and spotted a way, way over legal black in the opposite direction from which i intended to go, as i got excited and my brain shut off i tried dive bombing him, and you know what happened, phwooo! gone. i go down to grab a chum bag sitting on the reef, and almost lose a finger to a green moray. so i switch with les, who so diligently and fantabulously (yes, fantabulously!) held the camera all day, and he made a dive to the bag. while on the top of the wreck he sees the ray with 3 cobia on it swim below part of the wreck. so he surfaces to share his sighting and shane asks ME if i want my gun.

so i say "give it to les", and at just after that, les yells "yea wat about me???" so he grabs a gun and makes a drop to find them, but too late, he returns to the surface to share that he just saw the biggest margate of his life, dwarfing shane's current club record of 8 lbs (8 lbs?) shane and i simultaneously ask why its still down there. so another dive is made, and i watch les enter the wreck with the gun, and leave....alone. "DAMN!! big ass margate, huh??"..."nope big ass wreck" lol. between the lost cobia and the new addition to the wreck, i dont know what we heard more about the rest of the day. so a donation shaft is found, and of course it was bent. so shane had shitty luck the rest of the day, but still managed to put some fish on the boat. noon time rolls around and we move south. once again stealth diver patrick flops overboard, and not a minute on the spot surfaces with a trigger, and since noone else was in the water he puts that gun on the boat and take my RA 90 and puts another trigger on the boat before we can even get the first on in the cooler. i guess that flip flop into the water really does something for those fish.

after moving the boat and dropping anchor les and i get the head cam prepared and les puts on his european biker hoodie, to do some modeling OMG!!! i haven't laughed so hard in a very very long time!!! it was really an experience! i load the "pump action Rob Allen" haha (highly recommended gun)

and jump in. didnt see very much except les work hard to feed the family with his beast of a porgy!

i moved on and saw the biggest triggerfish of my life, but stayed out of range for the 90. a few baby gags made an appearance, but nothing shootable. little later les got some footage of a kingy and permit, and i saw a school of decent spanish a ways off. and i got a schoolmaster. we moved to the trench and first drop down, i look around, brush up some sand, and see a good mutton off to the left, so i took the shot and put it on the boat. we moved back north to the second reef we hit and shane picked up a hog. patrick got another trigger at some point, but i never even saw it get put on the boat. we hit another risky drop, and shane put a really nice schoolmaster on the boat, and patrick strung a cuda. on the way in we had to drag some kid snorkeling off the jetty out of the current, back to the rocks, and then headed in. cleaned our fish, watched patrick get taco bell on our way west for fish dinner and private screening of footage.

i think i'm missing some stuff, but the guys will fill in the blank spots. and i'm sure some jokes too boot.

i like writing long stories, b/c i know when i can dive there is someone who cant and would love o read about it. when i cant get out, i love reading other stories.

keep an eye out for this stuff on our dvd to come

Im1chunkymunky · 10-09-2006, 12:03 PM

ask shane (not patrick, my bad) for a "Jesus dive" demo!

it's awesome!

DiveGal · 10-09-2006, 01:20 PM

WOW!!!! Sounds like you had an awesome day! Great story...

El Cid · 10-09-2006, 02:33 PM

Oh man, that report was classic!!! Sounds like a great day of spearing all around, with just enough fish on the stringer but plenty of broken hearts to make you wanna go again!! You guys gotta let me tag along at Thanksgiving, y'all have the funniest stories!

primalpete · 10-09-2006, 02:40 PM

how you been dave? I bet its cold up there by now. Im already freezing my royal rastafarian neenies off here in tally.

SeaBass · 10-09-2006, 03:27 PM

Damn pete wait untill winter actually comes, you'll have nipples that can cut glass!

primalpete · 10-09-2006, 04:33 PM

damn i just cant wait. Im getting my 3 mil wetsuit before i come back home for winter break.

El Cid · 10-09-2006, 05:35 PM

Pete, it's not too bad up here, I'm going to have to break out the 4/3 come November but for now I'm suckin it up. Got some cool pics of a crazy weekend that I'm gonna put up here...I've developed a new training method to improve breath-hold time!

Im1chunkymunky · 10-09-2006, 06:14 PM

elcid- we'll take you out! when this colder water comes the cobia will be crawling...i've already shot 3 and the water has barely cooled down. we have been seeing ALOT of nice fish!! i was shooting my inaccurate gun today and missed what was either a 10-15 lb cubera or mangrove..if it was a grover that coulda been world record (was hiding between 3 jewfish, so i couldne see very well)....i was livid!!

Hector · 10-09-2006, 08:44 PM

Good stuff guys, sorry bout that cobe justin.

Im1chunkymunky · 10-09-2006, 09:57 PM

it happens dude..today the guy holding the camera for us got footage of a bigger one that what i hit...he was pissed he didnt have a gun, and i was pissed he didnt tell me

Seahuntress · 10-09-2006, 10:36 PM

Great story,and photos!!

23six · 10-10-2006, 11:54 AM

Overall, it was a good day...I got a lot of useable footage including the above Cobia/Goliath melee and even some head-cam stuff. Looking forward to more days like that.

Im1chunkymunky · 10-10-2006, 01:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 23six

Overall, it was a good day...I got a lot of useable footage including the above Cobia/Goliath melee and even some head-cam stuff. Looking forward to more days like that.

this weekend sound good?

NOTANX · 10-10-2006, 03:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Im1chunkymunky

this weekend sound good?

why not.

im not doing that blue water crap again for a while though.


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10-09-2006, 12:00 PM	#1
Im1chunkymunky Scooter misses the ocean Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: west palm beach, florida Posts: 925	it's about time i wrote a report! so i skipped a few trip reports, including some cobias, and snappers, mackerel, triggers, and of course cudas...yesterday was no exception. les, shane, patrick and myself decided to try some bluewater diving early saturday morning. we had the boat out the inlet just as the sun was peeking over the horizon, figuring we'd find a weedline witin 10 miles due to the easterly winds all week, we set out at full throttle due east. after 7 miles of nothing we go north and make a loop heading back west towards shore, then all of the sudden, shane makes a statement..."this is why i dive b/c i hate just sitting on the boat looking for places that MIGHT have fish", i told you all of that to tell you this story (as pointless as that was, you know you had nothing better to do than read an entertaining tale of ADD spearos, or you would be working, and not on spearboard ): so we ended up at our favorite reefs and the fun begins (after 2 hours of, well...boat riding). first stop on the way to the reefs was a buoy drop, with absolutely nothing. next spot, another buoy loaded with blue runners, and barely legal triggers. so shane (experimenting w/ his new gun, all one shot, , then switching to ol' trusty) and patrick (perfecting the delicate art of scaring fish ) shoot a few runners to burly and a trigger tries attacking patrick to get his fish, so what does he do? being the stealth, cannonball, bellyflop, ninja diver that he is, he sticks the trigger with his RA knife and gets it!!! i never woulda believed it if i hadnt seen the trigger flopping on the end of his knife above the water from the boat. shot another runner then moved on to the reefs. we didnt see much on the first set, so drifted over the next reef down. shot a cuda to sell, and luckily had a good shot b/c my shooting line got tangled on my bands preventing my shooting line from pulling out reel line, so i had to drag him up from 50 ft. shane took the second drop and stalked a nice black that kept just out of range, but before surfacing the fish sniper spots a nice mangrove about 10 ft off his right hip, and from swinging the gun off the black to the mango, lining up the shot and then executing, didnt take more than 3 seconds. about a 6 lb mango. next drift, saw a ray cruising across the reef w/ 3 cobia on it. i took a rushed breath and hauled ass down. following the cobes for a moment i line up on the biggest of the 3 and place the shaft a few inches behind the gills but a little low. the shot was taken from the length of the mono so the shaft only entered 1/2 way. he tried wrapping up on rumble so i kept tension as i ascended, then to really piss me off i had to tug of war with a MONSTER jewfish that attempted to swallow my cobia, only being stopped by the shaft, and my tugging. after gettin the jewy to let go he tried to hole up again, but i managed to keep him up, and just as i grabbed the shaft and was about to shove it all the way through, he ran so i let him go as i didnt want him to tear off. after gettin half way down he tore off. F********CK!! looking back i shoulda made one more kick and lined up a little better, and asked for another gun (which was hard to do while battling a fish 3 times my weight in tug of war over another fish), and also diving down to the fish to avoid the surface fight, and either shoved the shaft through or bear hugged him down at like 15 ft. next drift, once again i see the ray, and make a dive, lined up on the next biggest cobe (the other one took off, and prob died) and the safety somehow got switched on, after flipping that off, as the fish were swimming off i made a quick line up and missed an inch low and grazed the ray. (i will now seriously consider removing the safeties on my guns) made one more drop on that reef found nothing and returned to the first spot. i made a drop on the rubble just down current from the wreck and spotted a way, way over legal black in the opposite direction from which i intended to go, as i got excited and my brain shut off i tried dive bombing him, and you know what happened, phwooo! gone. i go down to grab a chum bag sitting on the reef, and almost lose a finger to a green moray. so i switch with les, who so diligently and fantabulously (yes, fantabulously!) held the camera all day, and he made a dive to the bag. while on the top of the wreck he sees the ray with 3 cobia on it swim below part of the wreck. so he surfaces to share his sighting and shane asks ME if i want my gun. so i say "give it to les", and at just after that, les yells "yea wat about me???" so he grabs a gun and makes a drop to find them, but too late, he returns to the surface to share that he just saw the biggest margate of his life, dwarfing shane's current club record of 8 lbs (8 lbs?) shane and i simultaneously ask why its still down there. so another dive is made, and i watch les enter the wreck with the gun, and leave....alone. "DAMN!! big ass margate, huh??"..."nope big ass wreck" lol. between the lost cobia and the new addition to the wreck, i dont know what we heard more about the rest of the day. so a donation shaft is found, and of course it was bent. so shane had shitty luck the rest of the day, but still managed to put some fish on the boat. noon time rolls around and we move south. once again stealth diver patrick flops overboard, and not a minute on the spot surfaces with a trigger, and since noone else was in the water he puts that gun on the boat and take my RA 90 and puts another trigger on the boat before we can even get the first on in the cooler. i guess that flip flop into the water really does something for those fish. after moving the boat and dropping anchor les and i get the head cam prepared and les puts on his european biker hoodie, to do some modeling OMG!!! i haven't laughed so hard in a very very long time!!! it was really an experience! i load the "pump action Rob Allen" haha (highly recommended gun) and jump in. didnt see very much except les work hard to feed the family with his beast of a porgy! i moved on and saw the biggest triggerfish of my life, but stayed out of range for the 90. a few baby gags made an appearance, but nothing shootable. little later les got some footage of a kingy and permit, and i saw a school of decent spanish a ways off. and i got a schoolmaster. we moved to the trench and first drop down, i look around, brush up some sand, and see a good mutton off to the left, so i took the shot and put it on the boat. we moved back north to the second reef we hit and shane picked up a hog. patrick got another trigger at some point, but i never even saw it get put on the boat. we hit another risky drop, and shane put a really nice schoolmaster on the boat, and patrick strung a cuda. on the way in we had to drag some kid snorkeling off the jetty out of the current, back to the rocks, and then headed in. cleaned our fish, watched patrick get taco bell on our way west for fish dinner and private screening of footage. i think i'm missing some stuff, but the guys will fill in the blank spots. and i'm sure some jokes too boot. i like writing long stories, b/c i know when i can dive there is someone who cant and would love o read about it. when i cant get out, i love reading other stories. keep an eye out for this stuff on our dvd to come __________________ SpearMonkeys Inc. DEMO video Palm Beach Freedivers Florida Freedivers (they got it all!!)

10-09-2006, 12:03 PM	#2
Im1chunkymunky Scooter misses the ocean Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: west palm beach, florida Posts: 925	Re: it's about time i wrote a report! ask shane (not patrick, my bad) for a "Jesus dive" demo! it's awesome! __________________ SpearMonkeys Inc. DEMO video Palm Beach Freedivers Florida Freedivers (they got it all!!)

10-09-2006, 01:20 PM	#3
DiveGal Today's the day! Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Melbourne, FL but wish it was Jupiter Posts: 3,725	Re: it's about time i wrote a report! WOW!!!! Sounds like you had an awesome day! Great story... __________________

10-09-2006, 02:33 PM	#4
El Cid Frozen member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Spokane, WA Age: 28 Posts: 1,211	Re: it's about time i wrote a report! Oh man, that report was classic!!! Sounds like a great day of spearing all around, with just enough fish on the stringer but plenty of broken hearts to make you wanna go again!! You guys gotta let me tag along at Thanksgiving, y'all have the funniest stories!

10-09-2006, 02:40 PM	#5
primalpete Registered User Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Delray Beach Age: 25 Posts: 1,261	Re: it's about time i wrote a report! how you been dave? I bet its cold up there by now. Im already freezing my royal rastafarian neenies off here in tally.

10-09-2006, 03:27 PM	#6
SeaBass shamwow Join Date: May 2004 Location: Boca Raton/Fort Lauderdale Posts: 628	Re: it's about time i wrote a report! Damn pete wait untill winter actually comes, you'll have nipples that can cut glass!

10-09-2006, 04:33 PM	#7
primalpete Registered User Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Delray Beach Age: 25 Posts: 1,261	Re: it's about time i wrote a report! damn i just cant wait. Im getting my 3 mil wetsuit before i come back home for winter break.

10-09-2006, 05:35 PM	#8
El Cid Frozen member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Spokane, WA Age: 28 Posts: 1,211	Re: it's about time i wrote a report! Pete, it's not too bad up here, I'm going to have to break out the 4/3 come November but for now I'm suckin it up. Got some cool pics of a crazy weekend that I'm gonna put up here...I've developed a new training method to improve breath-hold time!

10-09-2006, 06:14 PM	#9
Im1chunkymunky Scooter misses the ocean Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: west palm beach, florida Posts: 925	Re: it's about time i wrote a report! elcid- we'll take you out! when this colder water comes the cobia will be crawling...i've already shot 3 and the water has barely cooled down. we have been seeing ALOT of nice fish!! i was shooting my inaccurate gun today and missed what was either a 10-15 lb cubera or mangrove..if it was a grover that coulda been world record (was hiding between 3 jewfish, so i couldne see very well)....i was livid!! __________________ SpearMonkeys Inc. DEMO video Palm Beach Freedivers Florida Freedivers (they got it all!!)

10-09-2006, 08:44 PM	#10
Hector Registered User Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Deerfield bch Age: 34 Posts: 1,168	Re: it's about time i wrote a report! Good stuff guys, sorry bout that cobe justin.

10-09-2006, 09:57 PM	#11
Im1chunkymunky Scooter misses the ocean Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: west palm beach, florida Posts: 925	Re: it's about time i wrote a report! it happens dude..today the guy holding the camera for us got footage of a bigger one that what i hit...he was pissed he didnt have a gun, and i was pissed he didnt tell me __________________ SpearMonkeys Inc. DEMO video Palm Beach Freedivers Florida Freedivers (they got it all!!)

10-09-2006, 10:36 PM	#12
Seahuntress The Spinster Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: PRIVATE RANCH Age: 53 Posts: 1,021	Re: it's about time i wrote a report! Great story,and photos!! __________________ If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of Spearguns

10-10-2006, 11:54 AM	#13
23six Kalea Kai Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: South FL USA! Age: 42 Posts: 818	Re: it's about time i wrote a report! Overall, it was a good day...I got a lot of useable footage including the above Cobia/Goliath melee and even some head-cam stuff. Looking forward to more days like that.

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