Wednesday's forecast called for a sunny day, with winds in the low 10, seas under a foot, we figured a couple of windless days and a nice sunny day was gonna make our spearfishing Tavernier Key trip quite "bright", but come Tuesday night the wind picked up and our latest NOAA findings were reading 15 mph winds, carrying over to Wednesday morning, then laying towards the later middle of the day. This particular Tavanier spearfishing trip, had a pretty large crew, so everyone was "Are we going spearfishing to Tavernier?" " hows the visibility going to be?" " is it worth the trip?"...needless to say I was under the gun, and had to make a call- Spearfishing to Tavernier Key...Yay or Nay.
Yay, and here is why, generally when its raining the wind lays down (unless you get a hurricane/tropical storm setting), when you have a day or to of rain, the next day is usually pretty calm, even if it picks up (windwise, as in our case) the night before, even if the forecast changes (increased winds as in our case), even if its pretty windy first thing in the morning, once that sun comes up, expect the wind to lay! One thing to always keep in mind is that a forecast is just that, a forecast, its based on records from the past then applied "today" sometimes you need to read more into it, and apply some of your past experiences to get the "micro-picture" of your area. So how was the weather on our spearfishing Tavanier Key trip?
Morning, say about 10mph winds blowing outa the west (forecast called east), it increased to about 15, as we were arriving to Tavernier Key, then around 9am it went down and by 11 the ocean was more like a lagoon, the sun bright, the water tempt was in the high 70's (perfect for a 1.5mm, I used my 3mm top only) ...and the viz...ahhh the viz...viz in Tavernier Key was pretty bad (for Tavernier) we had about a milky 15' -25' in most areas, the water was very particulated and lots of small jellyfish and jellyfish piece.
We cruised to a few small spearfishing ledges in Tavernier we had marked, and a few big rock piles we had spearfished off of on our last Tavanier Key visit. We also hit some new spearfishing locations in Tavernier, that were amazing, we counted 15 hogs in just one spot! We also saw quite a bit of just undersized gags, I saw what was about a 34" gag in about 50' that I did not shoot, to avoid getting hit by a boat. This Tavernier spearfishing adventure had a a bonus in that I was able to try my new prototyped slip tip. This slip tip is the same one we have been tinkering around with for over a year and we finally got one made up and were fortunate enough to use it. The damn thing worked like a charm, fresh outa the box, on the first "prototype run"...so stay tuned for a full review on this never before seen, new slip tip concept! (ooooo sounds like a cool commercial)
So our spearfishing Tavernier trip was a success the weather cooperated, the fish did too. Although the viz was pretty shabby we managed to fill a cooler full of fish, including a nice mackeral I shot at about 20' with my custom speargun, a graphite enclosed track bubinga wood/carbon fiber 130cm custom speargun (this was a gun I was testing for a client prior to shipping)
Till next spearfishing report, tight bands, straight shafts, and smooooooooth triggers!
Tone
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