Another nice day freediving out of Miami with Pantoja, Freek, and two guys new to spearfishing. Water was warm although vis was a hazy 20-40' in most places. Currents played havoc with our diving, making us drift spots that we normally anchor. We spent the first part of the day deep but nothing really nice was home. We did hit a new spot in 100-120' that was full of massive muttons, these mutant fish were all 26-30 inches or more, but when you met them at 75 they headed for the bottom and the vis wasn't good enough to chase them all the way down. We'll definitely be back for them though.

We moved in for some shallow diving in 30-35' and found some muttons, hogs, and I grabbed the only 3 bugs that I came across all day, they are really being hit hard right now. Pantoja speared a nice black that was sharing a hole with some lobsters, he went 31" and had a scar from a previous spear, Pantoja made sure that he didn't escape a second time. Fish were a bit harder to find but we still managed a decent day. We drank a few cold beers on the way back in courtesy of Pantoja, thanks for everything bro! :toast:

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nice fish guys!

congrats on the cherna pantoja!

Nice fish, Kris & crew.

Sweet.
That's a nice haul !

One more.....
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Good report Kris, nice black Pantoja, it almost looks red.

nice!

that black looked like a red untill it got out of the hole, today I got another, I didn't have a camara but a guy who went with us did so , when he sends the pics I'll post them. I saw some big muttons but I stayed with the grouper that was much better.

nice guys!

Well done guys, nice fish as always, thanks for posting the report/pics. Glad you all had fun

Awesome fish guys.

Nice Aguaji Pantoja:beer:

And the winner is.... Rolo!! It is Aguaji not Cherna, y te llamas cubano Oto :p The truth is I had the names confused myself up to a couple of days ago and Pantoja straightened me out. I thought Aguaji was a GG but then I remembered "Guasa". So what's a Nassau then?

Actually I don't even think it's a black, maybe a Warsaw because of the yellow eyes and fin edges.

Nassau is Cherna Criolla.

You got it right. Nassau is cherna criolla. Rolo thanks . I'm waiting for the other pics to mailed but the don't finally come , the one I got yesterday I think was a bit bigger.

Fine catch!!

I'm waiting for the other pics to mailed but the don't finally come , the one I got yesterday I think was a bit bigger.Here's the pic.

Nice groupa!