Conditions were great yesterday!



We rounded the jetties and ran 55 miles out. We had some early morning misses on a stubborn bull dorado. Sharks moved in and they scattered along with the chicken we were targeting. We pulled to a rig where we jumped in for a dive.

Spearguns in hand Yan and I cruised down and both quickly shot a couple of mangroves each. During the dive we both saw a nice kingfish patrolling the perimeter. Upon returning to the surface we were greeted with that king we saw.



Cody had the fish we spotted in the cooler! He was laughing explaining how he had to fight the fish for 5-10 minutes, gaff it by himself and communicate with a work boat trying to come in that arrived while we were down.



We stayed in the area free diving before moving back into another rig structure.



We arrived at the next rig greeted by monster red snapper below the mangroves. Made sure to note the rig for next month.

We had some bird land in the water right next to us. It appeared completely exhausted & unable to get out after it landed. We rescued it.



I'm sure that bird was relieved. He rode in with us 50 miles back to Galveston. He just hung out the entire time perched on the spear gun or dock rope that was in the stern. We fed him shrimp, bread, Ozarka water.

He became our good luck charm as we landed the ling, several more mangroves and triggers after his rescue.



We ended up with 2 kings to 40lbs, 1 ling, 3 trigger fish & 8 mangrove snapper for the day.

Seas were 1' all day. Washing machine was not horrible going through and ended / started about 8-9 mi off shore.











It was a fun Friday on the water with a great crew.

Looks like a blast. I always wanted to spear fish.

Nice day of fishing

Looks like an awesome trip!

Great trip!!! Enjoyed the pictures

Awesome!

Good trip. When gas went crazy several yrs ago I decided to limit most of my fishing to inshore. I like to fish more than ride several hrs in the boat.

yall kept a king . damn times must be rough

Coe, yall only went out 8-9 miles. Hell when we going. I get the boat back this saturday after they fix the freakin reverse.

Washing machine?

Gotcha