Trip 6/21

Quoted from Spearboard.com "SPEARIT gets us on the Good Stuff !! What a fantastic way to spend Fathers Day wkend. Bergo, Marc, my son Richard and myself drove together from Bumf*#k Eygpt, [Maryland], to Carolina Beach to go hunting the offshore ledges on Spearit w/ Capt Tom Collins for Sat & Sun.
30 miles out Spearit got us hooked up on some remote ledges @ 90-105 FSW. BLUE BLUE water !! I was pumped. I couldn't believe what I saw as I decended. Grouper every where. I put a few nice ones on the HOD & there he was Bugzilla. He escaped, but I got another nice one.
Capt Tom motored miles away to another ledge for the 2nd dive. This time, I lost a shaft to mr. grouper, then lost another and my 2nd shaft. I was depressed. Then peeking under the under cut areas of the ledges praying for my shaft, wow! Enormous bugs scurrying in and out of cover. What a glorious habitat we were on. 60 feet of vis and unlimited supply of booty. Lucked out & found 1 of my shafts back under a ledge w/ a grouper on it as I grabbed @ the moving, darting Bug herd.
Back on the boat Capt Tom tells me "The best thing you can do w/ the green stick is throw it away. These Bugs are just too damn big." Well I saw them, no beer talk from this man, he knows how to put you on exactly what you want.
Sunday we went out in big water, made another fantastc dive [ speared a 9 lb Hog ] but headed inafter 1 dive as the waves just got bigger. 6-8 foot seas on the way in, probably should have not gone out, oh well its always calm underwater.    
We found Spearit charters on Spearboard and booked not knowing anything about them. What a treat it was to hunt w/ these guys." WADE

Trip 4-25

Departing early Sunday, solid 2 - 4 foot seas subsided to near calm conditions by later in the day. Hit three quality spots ranging from 130 up to 80 feet a little more inshore. Water temps were a balmy 70 degrees offshore and toward the lower 60's inshore (80 foot).

Now for the report, as a boat we picked up our recreational limit on lobsters, total on fish, 4 Hogs, 3 Gag Grouper, 1 Scamp, 1 Yellowmouth & a variety of smaller species.

All in all, a great day...these pictures are of the first dive, same spot.

Trip 1-3

Took 3 Divers out to in search of "Cold Front Gag Grouper." Left New River Inlet 08:30 running S/SE with the seas about 2ft chop. Ran 33 miles till we found 60deg water so I put them on a ledge that was marking good fish. 111ft of water with about 5-6ft of relief. It was a productive dive with all 3 getting fish and I could have filled cooler with black bass on hook & line (the biggest I've seen in about 15 years). Vis was real snotty on descent but cleared out real good on the bottom to 40-60ft. I was going to move to another ledge further offshore to try to get some reds and scamps (we quickly approacthed the rec. limit on gags) but they said the fish were there so I just moved down the ledge about .15 of a mile for the second dive. By the second dive, the wind was building, 15-20knts S/SW seas 4ft whitecapped chop. Second dive about the same, plenty of gags, no bugs and only two small hogs (probably around 10lbs) too small to shoot. Not a bad day overall, ended up with 8 gags(1 18.9lbs, 1-16, rest over 10lbs), some black bass, caught 1 King Snake and Bonita on the light line. Back at the dock tied up at 14:45.