MichaelBaranows
Contributor
I am sorry this has taken so long but I am writing as I work so it might be a little confusing and I might have left some parts out. I think this is the longest report yet and I probably have the least to talk about. My suggest is to get a drink and you might want to also want to read in shifts. I also at a picture of dad with his first speared fish. It is a photo but is above water.
Me and my dad went spearfishing for the first time together last Friday. I talked my dad into getting cert. with my last Feburary. But he wasn't too sure about about it at first but after the first time in the pool he has been wanting to go spearfishing. We have both made a few dozen dives over the last few months in freshwater trying to get used to our equipment and underwater world. A little over a month ago we were able to make our first rig dive in great conditions and see what we have been missing for years. Since then he has been busy working a shutdown at the plant not been able to make any dives while I have been diving with other people while they spearfish and I have been watching them hoping to learn a few things. They have even offered to loan me a speargun but I keep telling them that I am waiting to spearfish until I can do it with my dad cause we started diving together and I wanted to take this step with him also.
After working everyday for over a month my dad finally had a weekend off last week (8/27-28). We planning on going offshore for few dives but the day before while getting everything ready dad started the boat and we had broken waterpump so that put a holt on a trip Saturday and Sunday was called do to bad weather. I guess that God was just against us going diving last weekend.
So all last week I watched the weather and the seas looked like they were going to be nice to go offshore on Friday so both me and dad put in for a day of vacation from work. So Thursday afternoon I made a b-line to the house to load the boat and get ready for Fridays trip.
We leave the house around 600 so we would end up in Freeport a little before sun up and leaving the jetties around day break so we will be able to see once we are on the water. A little after 700 we are out the Freeport Jetties with somewhat smooth seas and only a few clouds on the horizon. At about 10 miles start to look like rain under a few of the clouds. So I start dodge a few clouds we get rained on a little but nothing to hard. Since I was heading to the East a little more than I had planned and was a good distance from the rigs I had planned to dive. I decided I would have to figure out a figure out a different place to dive. I noticed that was a little to the West of the V.A. Fogg in the area I had fished with some friends last week and I remember two rigs they we picked up a Ling and several snapper so I figured this might be a nice place to dive. So I cruised over there only to see that the first and bigger rig has signed posting "No Tie-Off". So we were off to the small tri-pod but it was still a rig and two weeks ago we caught several snapper and few Strawberry Group on the rig. When we get to the rig this is already a shrimp boat tied up to boat landing with probably 300' of rope. So I slide the boat in front of the other boat and dad hooks the rig hook onto the handrail. There is no current and the boat doesn't move enough to straighten out the rope. Dad is still sitting on the front of the boat to make sure the little current there is will keep the boat away from the rig.
To be continued...........
Me and my dad went spearfishing for the first time together last Friday. I talked my dad into getting cert. with my last Feburary. But he wasn't too sure about about it at first but after the first time in the pool he has been wanting to go spearfishing. We have both made a few dozen dives over the last few months in freshwater trying to get used to our equipment and underwater world. A little over a month ago we were able to make our first rig dive in great conditions and see what we have been missing for years. Since then he has been busy working a shutdown at the plant not been able to make any dives while I have been diving with other people while they spearfish and I have been watching them hoping to learn a few things. They have even offered to loan me a speargun but I keep telling them that I am waiting to spearfish until I can do it with my dad cause we started diving together and I wanted to take this step with him also.
After working everyday for over a month my dad finally had a weekend off last week (8/27-28). We planning on going offshore for few dives but the day before while getting everything ready dad started the boat and we had broken waterpump so that put a holt on a trip Saturday and Sunday was called do to bad weather. I guess that God was just against us going diving last weekend.
So all last week I watched the weather and the seas looked like they were going to be nice to go offshore on Friday so both me and dad put in for a day of vacation from work. So Thursday afternoon I made a b-line to the house to load the boat and get ready for Fridays trip.
We leave the house around 600 so we would end up in Freeport a little before sun up and leaving the jetties around day break so we will be able to see once we are on the water. A little after 700 we are out the Freeport Jetties with somewhat smooth seas and only a few clouds on the horizon. At about 10 miles start to look like rain under a few of the clouds. So I start dodge a few clouds we get rained on a little but nothing to hard. Since I was heading to the East a little more than I had planned and was a good distance from the rigs I had planned to dive. I decided I would have to figure out a figure out a different place to dive. I noticed that was a little to the West of the V.A. Fogg in the area I had fished with some friends last week and I remember two rigs they we picked up a Ling and several snapper so I figured this might be a nice place to dive. So I cruised over there only to see that the first and bigger rig has signed posting "No Tie-Off". So we were off to the small tri-pod but it was still a rig and two weeks ago we caught several snapper and few Strawberry Group on the rig. When we get to the rig this is already a shrimp boat tied up to boat landing with probably 300' of rope. So I slide the boat in front of the other boat and dad hooks the rig hook onto the handrail. There is no current and the boat doesn't move enough to straighten out the rope. Dad is still sitting on the front of the boat to make sure the little current there is will keep the boat away from the rig.
To be continued...........