Went out with the boys yesterday. Mo and Tino are getting into it. Tino shot a small jack and Mo had a few shots on hogfish but missed. He was using one of Doc's older guns.
We were hunting some shallow spots that have small cuts going in through the reef. Dog snappers seem to like to hide in the holes in these places. I still can't figure this out. I see schools of dogs out on the drop offs in the bigger cuts. Very different behavior. I guess they all must go in and hide at night though otherwise they would be easy pickings for sharks?
It's fun though laying on the bottom in only 20 feet of water in between the spurs of coral.
There was a huge school of horse eye jacks that came in. 8-15 lbs or so. Must have been 500 of them. I dove to the bottom and moved real slow up to them and then surfaced from behind a spur. They were all around me and I could almost touch them Mo got all excited and came sprinting up behind me and spooked them .haha. But I didn't shoot any. I told Mo not to. He would have lost his gun.
Doc cleaned up as usual with snapper, trunk fish, trigger fish....Good eating.
I was thinking how I haven't been out hunting the deeper snappers since last December. It got to where that's all Jake and I wanted to do. But yesterday I realized why I really started getting into this. Watching the boys and playing in the shallows and still getting some nice fish. It's all about just being out there with good people and kids and having fun. ya man.
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