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Yesterday, which I'll call Black Tuesday a friend of mine and I enjoyed a few hours on the water. Being as it was Tuesday we knew the fish would be more abundant then on the weekend, when they seem to know it time to head from the deaths. We hit a honey hole and saw lots of snook and tarpon. Then we hit a bluewater marker in 110 ft. It was blue and teaming with bait fish but no pelegics. So we moved to the third reef, the vis was still outstanding, I went in first at a know grouper spot, but I found myself confused because I didn't recognize the area. After a few minutes I focused on a 15-20 black grouper heading away from me. I started to pursue, he was cleaver, zig zagging from sand to reef and he even flushed another grouper from under a ledge. To make a long story short he and the other evaded me from about a 1/2 hour. Then I saw him again out away from the ledge and popped him in 52 ft of water. Since it took a lot of hard work to track and find him before I dispatched him I pet him and congratulated him on being a worthy opponent. Later I weight him in at 15 lbs.

I began to drift the ledge in 50 -55 ft. and was slightly over the sand when I saw a pair of table shaped rocks coming up I could see that the second rock had relief under it and decided to take a look. After breathing up I dove down and about half way down a grouper decided to come out from under that rock but he was to late my Daryl Wong gun was already aimed at that very spot and before he could return to the safety of his house, he received a shaft thru his gill plate. About 15 minutes later I recovered him after getting a second kill gun and untangling the line off the bottom. Later weighted in at 21 lbs.