Underwater photos

[FlyingClayDisk]

I dont dive, but I sportfish in southern CA, and worked one summer as a galley wench on a party boat, long ago.  

Here’s a story I heard, but ya’ll know how fish stories are, so with that disclaimer:

On a long-range trip off southern Mexico, a group were playing poker in the galley, exhausted from hauling in big fish all morning.  It was hot as heck, so the porthole window above the table was open.  There were people still catching fish right outside the window along the deck rail.   

Fish called wahoo, basically larger crazier barracuda, were on a hot bite.   A fellow was jig fishing with a chrome lure, which a fast fish can be chasing, that you arent aware of, if you are reeling in real fast.  so this guy was reeling to beat the devil, and lifted his jig right up out of the water as it reached the boat.  The wahoo jumped out of the water after the jig and just sailed right thru the open galley window.  

The poker player that was placing a bet, didnt miss a beat, when he said, “Yeah, and I’ll raise you a wahoo!”

LOL!  I don't even care if it's true...it's funny as hell anyway!!



ETA - BTW, we called Wahoo's "Cobia's". Pretty sure it's the same fish, just different ocean.

[FlyingClayDisk]

Once saw a giant dusky grouper. You have them in Florida too! At first I thought it's a bull shark but then it came up going for a turtle I was watching. It opened the mouth but aborted, a child would easy fit into it. I bet one could ride these like horses underwater if you had means to hold on :D. Yeahaaa. I wouldn't want to have them bite me though. I read on wikipedia when I went for the english name, that they can get up tp 450kg in weight. 

Yeah, maybe WonderCow and my wife are overreacting when it comes to fish in the sea!



Groupers.

COOL!!!  That's a whole bunch of really, really, GOOD EATS right there!!!! 

Back in the early 70's my buddy and I caught the FL State record Grouper like that in the Gulf off the coast of Marco Island just north of the 10,000 Islands area.  It wasn't that big though, something like 395 lbs.  Just about sank our 16' boat bringing it back to the marina to get weighed.  LOL!  They were called "Jewfish" back then, but of course that's totally politically-incorrect now days.  Sold it to a local restaurant for about $2 bucks/lb, which was a LOT of money in those days!  Got free fish sammiches for a month from the place too!

That's an awesome picture though!  Only picture I have of ours is a Miami Herald news clipping (which is around here somewhere, but Gawd knows where).  We thought we were so cool for that.

[TDDA]

Once saw a giant dusky grouper. You have them in Florida too! At first I thought it's a bull shark but then it came up going for a turtle I was watching. It opened the mouth but aborted, a child would easy fit into it. I bet one could ride these like horses underwater if you had means to hold on :D. Yeahaaa. I wouldn't want to have them bite me though. I read on wikipedia when I went for the english name, that they can get up tp 450kg in weight. 

Yeah, maybe WonderCow and my wife are overreacting when it comes to fish in the sea!



Groupers.

COOL!!!  That's a whole bunch of really, really, GOOD EATS right there!!!! 

Back in the early 70's my buddy and I caught the FL State record Grouper like that in the Gulf off the coast of Marco Island just north of the 10,000 Islands area.  It wasn't that big though, something like 395 lbs.  Just about sank our 16' boat bringing it back to the marina to get weighed.  LOL!  They were called "Jewfish" back then, but of course that's totally politically-incorrect now days.  Sold it to a local restaurant for about $2 bucks/lb, which was a LOT of money in those days!  Got free fish sammiches for a month from the place too!

That's an awesome picture though!  Only picture I have of ours is a Miami Herald news clipping (which is around here somewhere, but Gawd knows where).  We thought we were so cool for that.

While looking up the English name for Riesenzackenbarsch, how we call them, I read too that they are called Judefish. I wonder why! Maybe because it is kosher to eat? Is it? My first guess would be something like that.