St. Marks 04-29-2007
Posted: April 30th, 2007, 8:28 pm
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.
Final tally:
8 grouper
10 sheeps
6 triggers
1 hog
1 grunt
2 rock bass
A few pics...
Sean with his HOD. You can see the structure underneath him. That is 35 feet.
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.
Final tally:
8 grouper
10 sheeps
6 triggers
1 hog
1 grunt
2 rock bass
A few pics...
Sean with his HOD. You can see the structure underneath him. That is 35 feet.
