09-03-2021, 11:05 AM
(08-24-2021, 11:52 AM)oncemoreuntothejimbreech Wrote: If you get a chance to go to the Keys try to go when the shrimp are running. You can fish during the day and go shrimping at night.
https://www.shrimpnfishflorida.com/howtocatchshrimp.html
Montauk is known for its shark fishing. I learned to scuba dive not far from Montauk. The day we were to work on our navigation the seas were too rough so the instructor moved the dive site to a bay with a muddy bottom. Visibility was less than a foot. Great to work on navigation because you couldn’t see shit. I started to notice what looked like pot holes on the bottom. I got curious and decided I’d take a closer look. My face was about 3” away from a huge mouth with more needle like teeth than I could count. That’s when it bolted off the bottom and scared the shit out of me because I thought it was going to eat my face. It was a goose fish.
https://njscuba.net/marine-biology/marine-fishes/ocean-bottom/goosefish/
We had been warned they occasionally like to latch onto a diver that swims too close and if the do, swim to the surface and they’ll let go because they don’t like being off the bottom.
I had a summer job in Maine as a scuba diver. Too poor to afford a dry suit. That water is cold! Especially when you’ve been down for about an hour. About 10’ below the surface you can feel yourself swim through the thermacline where it gets even colder. By the time the dive was over I’d be shivering so hard I couldn’t hit the head trying to take a piss. That’s when they asked me, “You don’t piss in your wet suit?” Northern divers.
I've eaten monkfish before. Our local Kroger had it for a stretch and the seafood dept guy was pushing it hard. It wasn't bad at all. Kind of buttery flavor. I had zero clue they looked like that. Honestly, if I saw that and didn't know what it was, it would probably scare me more than most sharks. That thing is right our of a horror movie.
