Saturday Spear Slinging out of Pensacola

[Florabama]

Went out to the Avocet (a dredge barge in 115 fsw) and didn't see much. It holds a lot of fish but is so big it's hard to find them. I layed on the bottom under the stern until the other divers chased a nice black snapper under there and bagged him.

We moved into the Army tanks in about 85 fsw and started bounce diving them. Each one held nice fish and at least one shark. We all shot fish on the tanks. I got another black and a big trigger. The other divers got the big reds and another big black.

We ended up with a nice mixed bag of reds, blacks, grouper, trigger and sheepshead.

Nice day and best of all got to come back and watch college football that I had recorded. It just doesn't get any better than that.

Final Tally was
6 Red Snapper
3 Black Snapper
1 Lane Snapper
1 Grouper
1 Trigger
2 Sheepshead
Alabama 41/La Monroe 7
Auburn 7/ LSU 3
Florida21/Tennessee 20

 

[REII]

Sure looks like that was a nice day.

Good job guys!

TOM

 

[Florabama]

What was funny was that when we loaded all the gear and put the guns in the boat, we all were using the same size Riffes. We should have gotten a picture of all of us holding our Riffes by our fish and sent it to Riffe.

 

[seadoggirl]

Did you guys measure those snapper? The ones on the dock, are those red snapper, it is hard to tell? Good pictures (of cute guys). The fish are interesting too.

 

[Florabama]

Did you guys measure those snapper? The ones on the dock, are those red snapper, it is hard to tell? Good pictures (of cute guys). The fish are interesting too.

Cute! Whooohooo!

Yeah, we made sure to measure the fish. Not sure what's on the dock -- reds or blacks -- but we made sure they were all legal. We actually only threw back one fish -- a trigger that turned out to be too small with the new Florida regs.

 

[SuPrBuGmAn]

Nice catch, whats the new FL regs on trigger?

 

[Florabama]

Nice catch, whats the new FL regs on trigger?

You can't count the whole tail anymore. The measurement is to the fork or inside of the tail. Gray Triggers have about an inch or two of tendril coming off the top and bottom of the tail. You used to be able to count it, but not anymore.

 

[SuPrBuGmAn]

Ah, gotcha!......

 

[rigdiver]

What was funny was that when we loaded all the gear and put the guns in the boat, we all were using the same size Riffes. We should have gotten a picture of all of us holding our Riffes by our fish and sent it to Riffe.

Which Riffe do you guys use? Thanks for the story and pics.

 

[Florabama]

Which Riffe do you guys use? Thanks for the story and pics.

I have a Riffe C2x. It's about 48" long with three bands. All but one of the divers was shooting the same gun. The lone exception was a bit bigger Riffe.

I used to shoot a 42 AB Biller, but the Riffe is by far a better gun. You just have to get used to the unorthodox way it's strung.