A unique website dedicated to fishing information from Florida's Northern Big Bend. This includes the area from the Econfina River west to the Apalachicola River
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Location, date, time, water conditions, weather conditions, bottom temp, visibility, species caught, etc.
Left Shields at 7:45 with Andre, JoeK and Sean. The early morning sloppy seas kept us shallow. We did dives in 28, 32, and 35 feet. By 10 am the seas were flat and the water was so clear our last 2 dives went like this..."Hey, there's a dark spot over there. Yep I can see fish, let's dive". Good thing as we now have a couple of new spots for next time. Back at Shields at 4:30. Water temps were around 72°. Vis was top to bottom vertically, and around 25- 35 feet horizontal.
Sean was high gun for the day. I did ok with my best hog to date, a grouper and 3 sheeps. Andre and Joe slayed the triggers and sheeps.
As an FYI, the brown "whale snot" algae is growing on everything. If you go grouper digging stay up off the bottom or you will get slimed. Most of the grouper we saw and killed were well off the bottom.
Anybody ever caught a hogfish on hook and line ? only one I ever saw was mounted hanging on a wall in a restaurant in Cairo...Recognized it from pictures I had seen Tom post on here...
sundown wrote:Anybody ever caught a hogfish on hook and line ? only one I ever saw was mounted hanging on a wall in a restaurant in Cairo...Recognized it from pictures I had seen Tom post on here...
Good dive, cool pics. Whale snot was'nt where I was Sunday,after bite shut down we went snorkling in 30 ft.,free dove down and did'nt see any at all It is cool how clear the water is as I watched fish swim up to my bait and take it
You’ve reached middle age when all you exercise is caution.
