Monster Cubera / Dogtooth Snapper

[Ryank]

We went out a couple of Sunday's ago and we Line caught Dozens of grouper, two were legal keepers that Rob caught, and a Nice 24" Mango that Renee caught , I had to go down to check out the bottom, and aside from a 15' hammerhead that kept destroying their tackel, and a few hundred Cuda's and assorted mangos, and grouper, I came across this ole boy. This new camo suit works awesome, and for those of you who think spearfishing is easy. This was the hardest fought battle of my life. I had to shoot him twice, Go into the scariest place I have ever been on a dive, one I was concerned I would get out of. Took every ounce of energy and muscle and a bit of blood loss on my part,to get him under control, bring him to the surface, and thanks to a group of guys on a 24 Shamrock, they dragged me my boat after my wild ride. He weighed out at 61 lbs.
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[cdavisdb]

Nice fish! You don't see many Cubera's that size. Where were you (roughly)?

and I KNOW it ain't easy!

Connor

[Tarpun]

Great fish !!! Bet it was some wrestling match. I didn't know they lived in you neck of woods.
Did you camo your Savage FLY or is it just the pic? Dave

[76Red18]

Nice snapper! Mangroves included. Suprised that sob didn't try to chase you off his reef Must have been the camo North or South of Marco????

[bbh57]

Did you get him around here?

[Ryank]

We were 32 miles due west of Anclote 65-70' of water, over hard broken botom, and some rubble. We had a massive Chumslick going out, and that seemed to bring in mass quantities of fish. There were sharks, tons of Cuda, Aj's and cobia all around.

[gofastsandman]

We went out a couple of Sunday's ago and we Line caught Dozens of grouper, two were legal keepers that Rob caught, and a Nice 24" Mango that Renee caught , I had to go down to check out the bottom, and aside from a 15' hammerhead that kept destroying their tackel, and a few hundred Cuda's and assorted mangos, and grouper, I came across this ole boy. This new camo suit works awesome, and for those of you who think spearfishing is easy. This was the hardest fought battle of my life. I had to shoot him twice, Go into the scariest place I have ever been on a dive, one I was concerned I would get out of. Took every ounce of energy and muscle and a bit of blood loss on my part,to get him under control, bring him to the surface, and thanks to a group of guys on a 24 Shamrock, they dragged me my boat after my wild ride. He weighed out at 61 lbs.
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I`m sure you guys have seen Blue Water Hunters. Jimmy lives here. I think you guys are all nuts. Nice fish Ryan! I`ve always wondered what divers learn about fishing techniques while observing their behavior. Nudge.
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[Ryank]

pardon my typing i just had shoulder surgery and am out of it and hurting like hell they removed half inch of collarbone and fixed torn labrum and rotator ,, any how I see how fish act and it is amazing . Red grouper storm in like wolf packs on dead bnait and then sit there with it in there mouths chewing gently with their front teeth, usualy the angler tugs and the bait pops out.or if they chew long enough to feel the hook or only the head is left they will let that slide out.
Gags etc will grab it and gently swim away a safe dist from other fish. Live bait is more effective in that they have to grab and swallow. Dead / cut bait they chew a lil while and that is those hits that always feel like you almost had em. With dead bait, If u can set the hook on the initial tug your chances are better.Its crazy how funny a sinker looks suspended 2' above the bottom. Thius why I like to use about 36" of 40lb fluoro, and a really sharp hook. I hope this sheds some kind of light on what I have seen.

[gofastsandman]

pardon my typing i just had shoulder surgery and am out of it and hurting like hell they removed half inch of collarbone and fixed torn labrum and rotator ,, any how I see how fish act and it is amazing . Red grouper storm in like wolf packs on dead bnait and then sit there with it in there mouths chewing gently with their front teeth, usualy the angler tugs and the bait pops out.or if they chew long enough to feel the hook or only the head is left they will let that slide out.
Gags etc will grab it and gently swim away a safe dist from other fish. Live bait is more effective in that they have to grab and swallow. Dead / cut bait they chew a lil while and that is those hits that always feel like you almost had em. With dead bait, If u can set the hook on the initial tug your chances are better.Its crazy how funny a sinker looks suspended 2' above the bottom. Thius why I like to use about 36" of 40lb fluoro, and a really sharp hook. I hope this sheds some kind of light on what I have seen.

Hear the rotator is not pleasant.
I`ve been using pink flouro for the same reason I use pink line. First color to disappear. I like the gold offset circle hooks from mustad.
I`ll try to make this easy on your shoulder.
1 snapper and grouper pick up livies and run. Y/N
2 yt mutton and red tap tap tap {chew?} dead Y/N

I love to setup behind the driftboat with livies with lots of chum. They give them the free bird seed to bring em up , and then they can`t resist the livies.
Doing this tomorrow.
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[eggsuckindog]

crazy fish in that depth and I bet it a was a war - were you on the tug by any chance by the depth??

hope you don't mind me posting that on other forums its just amazing