The Caribbean Spiny Lobster season will close in:

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  • June 8-9, 2013 - Really, you shot her there?!?!

    Seas:
    2-4'
    Winds:
    10-20 ESE
    Viz:
    45-50'
    Temp:
    81F

     So we head down this weekend without too much in the expectation department since it had been raining with 20-40 mph winds almost incessantly the entire week. While at work on Thursday, I take a quick glance at the forecast to see there was still a small craft advisory in effect and a call for 2-4' seas on Sat increasing to 3-5 on Sunday. Heading home from work Friday in what seemed like my umpteenth torrential downpour this week, I'm not too encouraged as the rain was supposed to have subsided by today in the aftermath of Andrea, our first tropical storm in the region of the now a 7 day old hurricane season. Pummeled all week by record rainfall and high winds, it seemed like the only thing the weather was going to be good for was drinking (ok, it doesn't sound that bad when I phrase it that way)...

  • May 18, 2013 - My Grouper Opening (and work related disasters)

    Seas:
    2-4'
    Winds:
    10-20 ESE
    Viz:
    20-45'
    Temp:
    78F

    It was a little upsetting for me to realize as I sat down to compose this week's blog that I hadn't even gotten around to composing my usual "Foreward" blog at the beginning of this year. It was even sadder for me to think that it was because I hadn't been in the water since December 26. So in efforts to combat my sadness and keep up my word count on my blogs (like anyone else is counting - or even reading) this one turned out a little long (which is particularly odd since I only got to dive one day... but more on that in my excessively wordy blog). Enjoy!

    So I wasn't able to dive for the official opening of Atlantic & Gulf grouper on May 1 (or any time thereabouts), so I was hoping for something good on this, my opening day. We all wake up early on Saturday morning and after helping to put in a friend's boat to make sure everyone had a means to dive (we couldn't all fit in one boat now, could we?) we pile into the Angler to head out to #69 (insert sexual pun here...). My brother-in-law had arrived on Thursday so he had an extra day to shoot before the rest of us got there and he had told me he left a grouper at this spot so we hoped it would still be there today.

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