Hank49
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Where's the spear hole?
Didnt know Cuda could get this big
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SueMermaid
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I saw one nearly that big in Belize off of BBC. He made me scream underwater. They grow them big and mean there, apparently.
They appear on the menu in Bonaire, and I gotta tell you, they are yummy. But I think that bioaccumulation thing is true, so one would not want to eat a lot of it.
They appear on the menu in Bonaire, and I gotta tell you, they are yummy. But I think that bioaccumulation thing is true, so one would not want to eat a lot of it.
Hank49
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They're not mean in Belize, just in a bad mood because whatever they're eating gives them gas. I saw one actually passing gas off San Pedro.
SueMermaid
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You know, I have always wondered why I have never seen a fish fart. I guess they do.
I waste valuable company time wondering about things like this.
I waste valuable company time wondering about things like this.
Just curious, if you hate spearfishing, why were you hanging out on spearboard?
ScubaCollin:
Hank49
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SueMermaid:
It's a barracuda thing I think. This man I know has photographed thousands of fish all over the tropics and the only fish he's seen fart is a great barracuda in the Caribbean.
O2BBubbleFree
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cancun mark:
Or give the small guys a chance at some fun...
Doesn't a turnover in the breeding population help prevent inbreeding problems?
Just curious...
FredT
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Wet Spot, the guy in the picture isn't a real big man, but he either holds or has held records in many of the spearfishing categories in Louisiana. That is not the largest 'cuda I've seen out there by several feet, but larger ones are right rare and generally not in the "prey" category for ANYONE! Most folks lack both the stones and and experience to even try to bag a fish that size. Several divers who think they have the experience die every year from an "intense discussion" with fish that size, and larger, off the rigs.
Hook and line fishing is cheating. All a hooker needs to do is plant his feet and reel a while. Planting your feet in a neutrally buoyant condition doesn't work. Those rigs have a great many things for the fish to use as "pinball bumpers" that are covered with cookie cutter barnacles with the diver being the ball. The barnacles are known as cookie cutters since the plugs of your wesuit and skin removed by contact are the size of small cookies. Some have openings at the top of the shell over 2" across! Around the rigs a great many fish die as a result of having a trailing line from a hooker tangled with the rig. If we shoot one he'll generally die then, and we don't kill a couple dozen undersize fish by cranking them to the surface to get 5 "keepers". By-catch with a stainless steel shaft is effectively zero once a tyro learns how to see, and his total catch and by-catch will be under the day's species limit in any case. The experienced divers on the boat will see to that. As a general rule on the rigs undersize fish are safe from the divers, as bringing anything up under about 2' long is met with serious scolding about shooting "babies". Most fish species require a 3' minimum length to be "coonass safe".
While that fish may be a "breeder" there are hundreds his size and larger off there. He was no loss to the species. 'cuda are on the same "don't eat" list in the same places as grouper, snapper and the mackerel family, for the same reason. Large fish in the northern GoM are generaly safe eating. That 'cuda was probably eaten that day or the next as it was taken as part of a "Helldivers' Rodeo" tournament and there is a rather intense cookout and party at the weigh-in.
FT
Hook and line fishing is cheating. All a hooker needs to do is plant his feet and reel a while. Planting your feet in a neutrally buoyant condition doesn't work. Those rigs have a great many things for the fish to use as "pinball bumpers" that are covered with cookie cutter barnacles with the diver being the ball. The barnacles are known as cookie cutters since the plugs of your wesuit and skin removed by contact are the size of small cookies. Some have openings at the top of the shell over 2" across! Around the rigs a great many fish die as a result of having a trailing line from a hooker tangled with the rig. If we shoot one he'll generally die then, and we don't kill a couple dozen undersize fish by cranking them to the surface to get 5 "keepers". By-catch with a stainless steel shaft is effectively zero once a tyro learns how to see, and his total catch and by-catch will be under the day's species limit in any case. The experienced divers on the boat will see to that. As a general rule on the rigs undersize fish are safe from the divers, as bringing anything up under about 2' long is met with serious scolding about shooting "babies". Most fish species require a 3' minimum length to be "coonass safe".
While that fish may be a "breeder" there are hundreds his size and larger off there. He was no loss to the species. 'cuda are on the same "don't eat" list in the same places as grouper, snapper and the mackerel family, for the same reason. Large fish in the northern GoM are generaly safe eating. That 'cuda was probably eaten that day or the next as it was taken as part of a "Helldivers' Rodeo" tournament and there is a rather intense cookout and party at the weigh-in.
FT
I've seen bigger 'cudas off oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico. At least I thought they were 'cudas, but I was up high (heigth) on the platform.
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