The dive the hunt the fish

I headed offshore to do some fishing, SCUBA, and spearfishing on Saturday. We did some bottom fishing with little success but dove twice in about 65ft of water. The visibility was not great, only about 15-20 at best, but the spear fishing made up for it. I shot the two Sheep Head and the Amber Jack on the first dive. I passsed up Amber Jack and Sheep Head on the second dive hunting for the elusive Hog Fish and Grouper. I chased one Hog Fish but got a bad-angled shot on him and he got away. There wasn't a scale on the boat but we estimate the Amber Jack to be about 20lbs and the larger Sheep Head to be about 10lbs. It was a great day of recharging the batteries and enjoying a bit of nature...and taking some of it with me. Now we just need to cut Erica loose from the munchkins for a day for re-charging her batteries, but I'm guessing she'll pass up the spearfishing.

In case you were wondering I found out the Amber Jack is most likely the "white fish" you see on many seafood menus. Apparently more tonnage of Amber Jack is sold than any other fish. They are certainly big, abundant and fight like crazy. Having one at the end of a spear is a blast. Around here they call them a reef donkey because of the fight.