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The Caribbean Spiny Lobster season will close in:

Mon15Jun2009

June 13-14, 2009

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We chased some more birds around for another couple of hours to no avail until we decided to head back in. On the way out earlier that morning, I decided to put together my homemade flasher just in case we had an opportunity to jump in with a school and see if it would actually keep them around us while we would try to shoot a few. On the way back in we decided to stop and throw in the flasher just to see what it looked like. I must say, I was very happy with what I saw. If color and light reflection and refraction are what's supposed to bring in the fish, this homemade device should fit the bill. For now, it's just an assumption on my part, but it sure did look the part.

We were actually on our first spearfishing spot by 10a that morning, so we didn't spend too much time in our efforts for dolphin. The good news this weekend is that we finally found some decent snappers. At about our 3rd spot, we ran into a school of some very nice sized mangrove snappers. By about 1p, we had our limit in the cooler and were finally happy to get into the mangoes that we have been looking for over the past few weeks.

We decided to head out again on Sunday morning to see if we could get back into a couple of schools of mangroves like Saturday. By our second stop, we had a few in the cooler, but I wasn't feeling too well, so I offered to drive the boat for a while as I took a break. Something I ate on Saturday apparently didn't agree with me and I spent a good portion of the night suffering from nausea and the exertion of this morning's dives had me feeling the after effects once again. Before I got back in the water, my brother in law shot a beautiful 28 inch Red Grouper. At our second to last spot, where I was feeling like I could dive again, we ended up with a few very nice Cero Mackerel as well. It wasn't the most productive day we have had, but it did get fun with the Mackerel at the end.

We also had one last bit of excitement this weekend while we were finishing up all the dirty work of cleaning fish and picking up the site before leaving. We usually leave a rod in the water while we are cleaning fish since there are always tarpon rolling in the marina. This time we had a little luck and hooked and landed about a 25-30 pounder. I don't usually put up hook and line pictures in the pics section but these things don't happen all the time, so I thought I would. Check out the pic under this week's date here.

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