drewzim
07-17-2011, 07:13 PM
Fished the cbbt this weekend with tfer drewzim and his brother Dave. Today we made room on the boat for dive gear:thumbup: We arrived at our first wreck and set the hook so we could try catching something on hook and line. After catching a few sea bass and blues we decided to try and move. Went to pull the hook and it wasn't budging. Geared up and went over to get the anchor off and decided to bring my gun with me just incase. We were shallow, 35ft max depth. I hit bottom and saw the anchor was stuck on a cable. Water temp was a very nice 75* and had 20+ vis on bottom. The last of the incoming made for favorable conditions. The wreck was swarming with life including: taug, sea bass, flounder, spades, rays, star fish, crabs, sheepshead, blues, triggers ect. I spent a few minutes looking around then took 3 nice sheepshead to 12 lbs before unhooking the anchor and surfacing.
We then went sharking a few miles from the wreck and caught 5 small sharks all about the same size @ 3-4 feet. I couldn't get my mind off some of the keeper flounder I saw so we went back to hook into a bigger piece of the wreck to try my luck. It's amazing how the conditions changed in just a few hours. I hit bottom at 30ft and was greeted with a strong outgoing current which dropped the visibility to less than 10 ft. The anchor missed the wreck by 15ft so I tried to secure it to the wreck but the current was too strong for me to move it over. The anchor was also not holding well in the sand so the boat was slowly drifting away from the wreck. Text book would have had me aborting this dive but i knew Andy and Dave were above aware of the drift and saw No real harm at 30ft so I continued on and shot my first flounder. I forgot my stringer so I returned to the dragging anchor line and tied off my first flounder. Went back for another and saw a group of ten of so chilling in the sand. Shot the biggest one of the pack and went looking for the anchor and couldn't find it. It was all I could do at this point to keep up with the current and with no anchor line I decided to make a free ascent and come up. Ended up being about 40 yards from the boat and could barely get back. Ended up with 2 nice flounder and 3 she eps. Awesome dives. I could see bottom from the boat at the tower on Friday but didn't have my gear with me. Sorry for the poor grammar I'm on the way home in the car.
We then went sharking a few miles from the wreck and caught 5 small sharks all about the same size @ 3-4 feet. I couldn't get my mind off some of the keeper flounder I saw so we went back to hook into a bigger piece of the wreck to try my luck. It's amazing how the conditions changed in just a few hours. I hit bottom at 30ft and was greeted with a strong outgoing current which dropped the visibility to less than 10 ft. The anchor missed the wreck by 15ft so I tried to secure it to the wreck but the current was too strong for me to move it over. The anchor was also not holding well in the sand so the boat was slowly drifting away from the wreck. Text book would have had me aborting this dive but i knew Andy and Dave were above aware of the drift and saw No real harm at 30ft so I continued on and shot my first flounder. I forgot my stringer so I returned to the dragging anchor line and tied off my first flounder. Went back for another and saw a group of ten of so chilling in the sand. Shot the biggest one of the pack and went looking for the anchor and couldn't find it. It was all I could do at this point to keep up with the current and with no anchor line I decided to make a free ascent and come up. Ended up being about 40 yards from the boat and could barely get back. Ended up with 2 nice flounder and 3 she eps. Awesome dives. I could see bottom from the boat at the tower on Friday but didn't have my gear with me. Sorry for the poor grammar I'm on the way home in the car.