Spear Fishing in FL

[Wayward Son]

I don't have a stake in his boat. I'm just one of his customers.

Here are a couple of the nicer fish I've shot diving with them over the past few months:

I took this cuda on the very first time out with them:

This gag was right after Christmas:

Travis (another guy who dives with us) with a black:

 

[Florabama]

I don't have a stake in his boat. I'm just one of his customers.

Here are a couple of the nicer fish I've shot diving with them over the past few months:

I took this cuda on the very first time out with them:

This gag was right after Christmas:

Travis (another guy who dives with us) with a black:

Do you like Cuda? I have never tried to eat them, but one of the guys I dive with regularly likes them and takes one just about every time we go. They sure do stink when he guts them, though.

 

[av8er23]

that kid on the incoming pic is pretty funny is that you son?

 

[Wayward Son]

Yes, we like to eat cuda. No, the avatar I swiped from a friend, dunno where he got it.

 

[Florabama]

Yes, we like to eat cuda. No, the avatar I swiped from a friend, dunno where he got it.

You should have plenty to choose from then. On just about every dive I make, I see 20 or 30 on each wreck.

 

[av8er23]

that is short for baracudda right.

 

[Wayward Son]

Prolly typical of what we see around PC. They go away when the water cools off, then come back once it warms. We're starting to see some agin, but it's hit or miss from one site to the next.

In FL, there is no size restriction or bag limit on cuda.

 

[ReefGuy]

I don't think I'd shoot a cuda. Too many teeth for me, althouh eating them this far south is still ok, as far as I'm aware. We have some nice sized ones around here.

Nice fish, BTW.

 

[av8er23]

are they a boney fish? how easy it it to clean one?

 

[Wayward Son]

Cuda? Nope, they make real nice fillets. Some people don't like to take them bc they stink. On the outside, the cleaned fillets don't stink.

I have a handicap that often becomes an advantage. I have never been able to smell anything. So I don't care what they smell like, if they eat good, I shoot them

Now, cuda can be toxic, but up here that's not a problem. No coral, they're safe to eat. Farther south if I were eat any, I think I'd limit myself to smaller, younger specimens that haven't had enough time to build up the toxin, but up here people eat them.

The meat is white & very firm. We have baked fillets, chunked it up & fried it, and I'm told it grills well but haven't tried that yet. I'm sure it would be good broiled, too.