Figured I would start this thread for spearfishing specific stories.... I will periodically go back through the memory bank, photo albums and log books and spin ya a yarn.... Lets hear your tales from the deep!
Spearfishing Stories
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This was my first triple digit Grouper. I was down in Baja, Mexico, my first time diving on the Pacific side of the peninsula. This was the last day of the trip and we had already skull dragged a bunch of solid groupers further south down the coast. One of my goals on this trip was to whack one over 100 pounds. It had taken us all day to get over to this spot. We had to ferry all our gear across an estuary, and then drive some old beat up trucks down a 30 mile stretch of remote beach on an island. We met up with our Pangeros, local commercial lobstermen who have a remote camp at the tip of the island. They took us out to a spot they call “Cemetario” where they like to drop lobster traps and occasionally catch grouper on hand lines. It was about 100 feet to the bottom. I was the first to jump and the water was murked up, probably five feet of viz at most. I made my first drop, not knowing at all what to expect, and as I got down to about 40 feet the viz cleared up a bit. I landed on the piece, hard bottom around some ledges, and immediately spotted about 3 fish out on the edge of viz that all looked to be plus size models. I ascended back to surface and gave the rest of the guys my report. I breathed up and made a second drop, landed right in the same zone and the fish were still there. I took a shot on what i thought was the biggest one, got lucky, hit it in an aft section of the gill plate and somehow stoned it. The fish came up with zero issues, barotraumaed half up the water column, and floated right to the surface. The Pangueros flipped there shit when they saw the fish and immediately started making claims of it hitting 100 pounds. We cruised back to camp, and broke out the scale. It went 117 pounds. It was one helluva a way to cap out an already sick trip.
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My second trip to Ascension Island before they closed the flights to civilians. I had three clients with me, and they all had the same goal, whack a Yellowfin over 200 pounds. Del had done quite a few trips with me before this one, Panama, Baja etc. This was the first day of diving on our Ascension trip. Del stoned this 73 pound Wahoo in the morning and later that afternoon stoned this Yellowfin which I believe went 235 pounds on the scale. It was a helluva trip, with tons of sharks, Wahoos and big yellows. One for the books…
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The genesis of "Pretty People Shoot Pretty Fish"
The FE crew was in Walker's Cay, Peter, Wiley, Don, Trevor and Myself. First off, Walker's is amazing, the bottom and structure is incredible. With my limited breath hold, I like to send Wiley or Pete down first to locate fish for me. In this case, Wiley was looking in a coral head and when he swam up, he kicked some sand, and a Big Dog Snapper came out to investigate...so i dove down and shot it.
Turns out it was probably close to a record fish at the time, an absolute beauty. prompting us to comment that "Pretty people shoot pretty fish"
The FE crew was in Walker's Cay, Peter, Wiley, Don, Trevor and Myself. First off, Walker's is amazing, the bottom and structure is incredible. With my limited breath hold, I like to send Wiley or Pete down first to locate fish for me. In this case, Wiley was looking in a coral head and when he swam up, he kicked some sand, and a Big Dog Snapper came out to investigate...so i dove down and shot it.
Turns out it was probably close to a record fish at the time, an absolute beauty. prompting us to comment that "Pretty people shoot pretty fish"
One of many trips to the East Coast of Africa…This was a exceptionally good one. I think we had three Mahi over 40 pounds, countless Yellowfins and Wahoos, a Black Marlin over 200 pounds, some big GT’s, Long Nose Emperors, Job fish, and five Doggies over 150 pounds…. One for the books.
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My 2nd Gulf Grouper over 100 pounds… This one I shot in The Sea of Cortez while on a live-aboard trip. It was totally unexpected, shot it while diving a deep pinacle out in the middle of nowhere. It went 120 pounds on the cert. scale..
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To date, my greatest experience Spearfishing was with @Don Trump Jr. and @Wiley Watson in Turkey. We stayed on a friends boat and spearfished monster Bluefin. you can see the epic video here --->>
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What steroids were you taking in preparation for this trip? I can tell in the second photo that you must have been injecting peptides straight into your shoulder clavicles...
i'm on every kind of peptide i can find
Yeah, wow, insane trip that was.
