How'd you do this weekend?

We dove Friday and Saturday this weekend out of Venice. Friday was pretty much a wash out. We made 3 dives but thunder storms prevented us from carrying out our plan. On dive #2 me and my buddy went down to 120' and didnt see much besides small AJ and snapper so we started up and I noticed him take off towards the surface. I look up and see a nice Tarpon (~80 lbs) He just a good shot on him and SCHWACK! he sticks the tarpon and goes for a ride. When he did this, a 8' bull shark came in the rig to see what was going on, that was pretty cool to see. He only stayed for a few seconds. I am swimming around looking to shoot a Mangrove when I see a tarpon pass me and head away, I took a really long shot and presumed I missed. When I pulled my shaft back I noticed I had a scale on the end. The one my buddy shot happened to pull off when it got leverage with the rig and thats the one that swam by me



On the next dive, we shot 2 sheepshead and a Jack Creville, BUT there was a ~250 lb Jewfish on the rig. He was massive and amazing to watch. Talk about make you feel small.

That night, somehow Rok's son scored us 2 lbs of fresh Yellowfin Tuna. We ate good off of that!



On saturday we were not really targeting fish but lobster. Although we still carried our guns just in case. On the 1st dive I shot a 42 lb Amberjack (not big but I wanted to make sure I'd come home with meat)



We ended up only catching 4 lobster on the trip, somewhat disappointing.

On the last dive 3 other Hell Divers on a different boat shot 3 nice AJ's (2 60 lbs, 1 close to 80 lbs)



All in all it was a great weekend of diving








BTW if you havent noticed there are Jellyfish EVERYWHERE, and them mother fricker HURT! They arent just on the surface, we got stung 200' down! There were literally hundreds of thousands on 1 rig we dove