Stupid question. Why do you poke the eyeballs out before you throw away?

That’s so the carcasses will more easily sink when being discarded.

Thanks CAL.

Nothing to report this weekend from me but I did let a good friend use her and they killed some fish.

Awesome

Finally had some slick seas. We pulled up on the first spot and triggers and red snapper were all up under the boat from the surface to as far down as you could see. Took a little while to get a .imit of snapper because of all the triggers.

We went yesterday and got a limit of 15ish pound snappers for eating and had some fun with some kings. All on spinning rods. I got brutalized by some 30 to 50 pound AJs that were unusually aggressive. They were in a mob chasing to the surface and blasting any live bait I tried. Even had a 50 lber eat a chunk of cigar minnow. I saw him coming but didn't dream he would eat that. I paid dearly for that misjudgement. I caught and released 4 of them and I am so sore now that I feel like I got beaten with a bat. I am too old for reef donkeys now.

Fun times!

Thanks for posting those they bring back great memories.A lot of fish board pics these days are mostly stuff we used to use for bait but those are solid fish.Back in the day I spent several years off shore pretty much every week-end weather allowed either fishing or spearing and it was one of the funnest periods of my life.I was lucky enough to hook up with some of the best bottom fishermen in central Florida, including two guys who essentially pioneered private boat non-commercial bottom fishing off of Port Canaveral, and we killed ,literally, tons of fish..I quit when they got tight on all the regulations, it was either that or go total outlaw. One of my old spearing buddies actually paid $30,000 for a commercial license just so he could continue to fish and spear on the week-ends the way we did before all the bull doo doo.

Did you drink any beer? Went on WeeMan's boat Saturday. 8 nice snapper and I caught a Cobia as a bonus.

I had a couple. Hard to drink when a 50 lb AJ is trying to pull your arms out of their sockets.