Full Moon...Gone Mutton Hunting- Spearfishing Report

Yesterday was awesome!!!! Zero winds, 20% chance of rain, but after looking at the radars and calculating wind speed and direction I knew we would be safe running outa Homestead for some spearfishing fun. We were in search of muttons with this new moon. Rumor has it muttons start romancing on the first full moons of April, May and June...depending where in Florida you are spearfishing, so yeah those big muts are a bit less spooky and a bit more shallower than normal. We ran from Pacific to Star Reef, hitting some secret spots along the way...everywhere we went it was top to bottom down to 50'ish feet...the entire ocean was a lake, we saw maybe 5 boats, so it was a safe lake at that....but the muts them boyz was slim pickings.

Another reason for this trip was I checking/ballasting one of my HalfBreed spearguns, the newest addition to my speargun line. The Halfbreed is a Euro enclosed track hybrid speargun, to my knowledge the only one of its kind in the market. I'm gonna write a full report on this Euro hybrid speargun soon so stay tuned!

Anyways we were met with some great spearfishing conditions the entire day, other than in some areas the water was particulated with stingers...I dunno what they are, whether its broken up jellies (one of my buddy's theory) or something that floats with the sargassum seaweed, whatever it was stinging the hell outa us. We dropped on a few plates and a few humps and saw fish in all the houses! We hit some pretty "muttony" spots but none were around other than the 2 we shot. We saw a few blacks, that have smartened up, and did not present any high percentage shots so most got a pass. On our last drop we were on a hump that went from 17' to 40' and was stacked with mango's all around a big hole. I slowly dropped on a glide towards the hole, as the groupies dissipated, outa the hole comes a nice mangrove snapper rising up to meet me...before we could get aquainted I pierced his rump with a shaft from the HalfBreed speargun....strung up the 24"er, convinced the Euro enclosed track hybrid needed neither tuning or ballasting, this one banded gun is a beacon!

So we had a great day spearfishing, with a nice line up of great eating fish!

Till next spearfishing report, tight bands, straight shafts, and smooooooooth triggers!

Tone

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