hank

Windfinder.com had it all wrong yesterday. They said, 4-5 knots all day. We left the farm and it looked calm but got out a couple miles and the wind kicked up to about 20-25 kts. Then thunder and lightning started up to the west and south of us. Shit.
Couldn't get outside the reef, I started out, saw the waves and started screaming for my mama... so we went to a cut where there's a lot of mangrove snappers. We terrorized them for a while and got about 16 or so. Then the current kicked up so we went north to one of our favorite cuts.
The current was pretty strong so I was dropping the boys and picking them up inside. They saw a few nice fish but the vis was pretty bad. They got the two nice barracuda and Tino got the fish of the day, a 7 lb hog.
Nice day overall.
The old guy in the pic isn't me. haha. That's DuQuesnay. Ever hear white Jamaicans talk? They sound like Bella Lagosi in the old Dracula movies. haha.



Tino and his hog.

Dude george

nice haul Hank, ever hear white Americans talk? perspective hahahahahahahahahahahahahahah but Jamaicans cant hold a candle to Bajons(from Barbados)

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LunkerBuster

Stud hoggie.

Looks like you made the best of a challenging day.

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Hardline

Nice report Hank! Awesome pics. That's a nice hog!

Dan

Nice pics.

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hank

Had really dirty water today. Diving to 60 plus feet just to see if there were any fish. Weird day. There were fish but they were really skittish. Saw a big school of cuberas but they dove down over the wall.
We got a few and one decent one. One decent dog too.

Dan

Often these are Miami diving conditions. It took me a long time to adjust to this blind diving, I was used to hunting from the top. I still don't like it much and can only do a couple of hours like this over reef. When diving on artificial stuff it's not bad unless there's current, because the fish are either concentrated in one spot or are not there at all in which case we move on.

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Josediaz

Congratulations, pescastes almost all species of Caribbean snapper, Aguadera, parguete, guasinuco cebadal y pargo gallo.


deep sea fishing 60 '


I do not like the dirty water because I get seasick, take Dramamine to fish dirty water.

Issac leave a terrible swell here.


Greetings to Mr Bela is my favorite actor dracula, franki and igor.


Felicitaciones, pescastes casi todas las especies de pargo del Caribe, Aguadera, parguete, guasinuco , cebadal y pargo gallo.

no me gusta el agua sucia porque me mareo, tomo dramamine para poder pescar con agua sucia.

Issac dejo un mar de fondo horrible

hank

Yep. Nice calm day. Got out to our spot and found the fish. Jake hit a nice one, then another, then I got one, then a mutton, then another.....Jake was doing some really nice diving. He would disappear at about 80 feet but I was getting vectors on dark and light spots I could see so I knew where he was and could meet him coming up. Then, "thwack", I'd hear his gun.
We had a pretty full cooler....and lucky we brought two. I dropped down to about 65 feet, over a coral spur. I could see to my 1 o'clock or so that there was a fair sized cubera checking me out. I just kind of played dead, dropping and staying level to look small. She just kept coming....slowly I turned and she was headed right at me. I'm thinking,"ok, turn......turn and don't bolt". She did and gave me a really nice shot. I was thinking it was.....like 30-35 or so. It took off after the shot and I headed up, running line out on my reel. I got to the surface and started pulling. Lucky it didn't hole up. Slowly...slowly it came up. DuQuesnay swam over to me and watched. As it came up I could see it was pretty big and pretty dead but "Duke's" shot it again in the head.
ya man. As I swam by Jake coming back from the boat he starts hooting. 53 lbs. My best by about 8 lbs or so. Nice day.



This is kind of the ugly side. I hit it near the lateral line and it came out the gill plate on the other side.



Nice picture but it was a bit curled up from trying to jam it into my cooler.

Nate

Hell yeah Hank, great fish.