Weekend of freedive spearfishing, family, and my buddy the tortoise...

[Noah]

... took a break from boar slaying to take the fam and friends out on the water this weekend, thought I'd share some of the scenery with yall

Shot fish all morning before running out to the barrier island Egmont Key, cooked lunch on the beach and went for a hike around the deserted island.  Sat down on in the sand on the Gulf side of the island to reflect for a bit and saw something walking my way... pulled my phone out and shot some vid of this fellow beachwalker... he walked right by me, only occasionally stopping to graze on spriggs of grass, never even gave me a second look as he motored on by...  pretty damn cool I gotta say.



... I'll add some more in a bit

[Noah]

30 minutes of freediving in 25'... equals a lot of fillets HAHA 


"unicorn fish"    (he didn't want to turn so I just hit him right down the middle )

[BA-IV]

Pretty cool pictures.

[Noah]

My daughter Fin exploring the gun turrets overlooking the shipping channel built during the Spanish American war in the 1890's


Some really nice views out here...


The production line... still have about a hundred #'s left in the cooler to put away tonight 

[Kid7]

Nice... Ill send you my address.... be sure and get all the bones out!! Lol

[justincorbell]

All sheepshead? Or did i see a spade in the mix?

[justincorbell]

And hell of a haul noah, sounds like a good time.

[rdjustham]

hmmmmm.... 

[buford]

Y'all are in my back yard lol... When I get done with spec fishin' ill be out there with my spear .... Do y'all free dive or use tanks ? I use a life line just got it last year love it! nice pics !

[Noah]

Thanks yall, sure was good to get wet again, been too long.  All sheep, mangrove snapps, and hogfish/no spades although they were everywhere too!  Buford this was all freediving wrecks out in the middle of Tampa Bay

[grittydog]

Whats the best eating fish, that you shoot with the speargun? Can you shoot grouper?

[djhogdogger]

 I am so jealous. I LOVE the view. I wish that we had white sand and blue water at our beaches. Everything is brown here. 

[justincorbell]

Thanks yall, sure was good to get wet again, been too long.  All sheep, mangrove snapps, and hogfish/no spades although they were everywhere too!  Buford this was all freediving wrecks out in the middle of Tampa Bay

Noah, last year a free dove for the first time and had a blast, anyway more for practice than anything I decided to kill a couple big spades, well i killed em so i brought em home and fried them..........they were awesome, i couldnt cook it fast enough......if youve never tried one I highly suggest em.

[Noah]

Everybody I've ever known considers them trash fish lol, but I will try one next time!  As for the best eating fish by spearing... for me, American Red Snapper is damn hard to beat...  very, very hard fish to kill freediving but worth the trouble 



I rank Sheepshead above Grouper and Hogfish, all three are perty dang good though 

Hogfish


Gag grouper(much better than Red Grouper) and Permit, usually smoke the Permit and make dip out of it

[justincorbell]

Its funny that you say that, around here people say sheepshead are trash fish lol, crazy aint it

[rdjustham]

ummmm isnt gag closed?    

[Noah]

Are you seriously gonna make me type all that chit again?

[chads7376]

Same around here... We don't eat sheepshead. I've never tried it. Same goes for mullet. I believe their a popular table fare over there. Y'all also have much better looking water than we do over here don't know if that has anything to do with it.

[Reuben]

sheepshead is one of my favorite fish...but you need a good sized sheepshead to get two fillets...

[rdjustham]

Are you seriously gonna make me type all that chit again?

now you know i was gonna say somethin hahahaha