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Bob Diaz | SpearBlog 2008 | June 01, 2008 | Print

Winds: 10-15  E
Seas: 2-3 feet
Surf Temp: +/- 82F
Viz: 5-10 feet
Got a little bit of a late start on Saturday. Thinking high tide was coming early in the morning, we decided to target the afternoon low tide. Unfortunately the charts were off by a couple of hours and in addition to passing up high tide for no good reason, we ended up swimming against an outgoing tide for about an hour and a half before getting a break. The viz was terrible at its best and most of the time you couldn't even see the fish until they just about under you. The only good thing was they couldn't identify you any sooner than you could identify them. The only ones that were extra spooky because of the viz were the groupers. They would barely give you a look and boom! they would head up current where I couldn't follow. I did end up with a couple of nice mangoes (check out this week's pics), but I sure wish I could have dove that morning high tide. I can't help but think that the water would have been somewhat cleaner (besides, I prefer fishing high tides anyway).

 

The one fish there seems to be an ample supply of this summer is the hogfish. Only a few of really considerable size, but tons of legals. We try to be as picky as we can given the supply and only pick out the biggest ones we see. I can barely remember the last time we actually limited out on hogs even though there's more than enough of them to do so almost every time we go out lately. We like to think we will get the ones we let go when they get bigger (what fisherman doesn't tell himself that?).

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