Headed out this Sun. after the front to Long Key. The drive down was pretty cool as we had about 50 ft viz on the road due to the heavy fog, kinda reminded me of my midnight drives up to Okeechobee for the annual duck hunts with my uncle. Well NOAA said it'd be under 10mph winds with some scattered showers, my bud had gone the day prior (Sat.) and encountered under 5' viz...but man I've been jonzin' to wet me gills so we decided to "travel light" and hit Long Key on the ski's. 6 on the am found us driving down the the fish stretch arriving about 8'ish- by then the fog fizzled and we were greeted with a beautiful day, zero wind, seas calm, I mean less than 1'...current was very light, viz was practically T-B everywhere we dropped. I had some new numbers I had picked up on the last adventure and I wanted to investigate it a bit more so me and the O'V drew up a game plan and plotted our way to the spots. WOW every place we hit had fish in the house, seemed the ocean was crawling with Gags, some shorty's, but most legal and healthy we filled our limit within the hour. We managed to shoot a few nice mules (Big Yellow Jacks) quite a few hogs, a decent sheepshead, and probably my personal best octupus. Damn them critters are masters of deception!. We were drifting a spot and my eye caught some telltale movement, that quickly registered as an 8-legged critter, next to a pretty big sea fan, I gulped some air and went down to get him in about 40', when I reached the fan I searched and he was nowhere to be found, I left my gun marking the spot and followed my floatline up. I was certain he was around so I just chilled on top waiting him out. He finally made a move....he was about 6" from my gun and about a foot away from the seafan, in other words he was right in front of my nose and I never saw him- took a gulp submerged and poked him...someone say SUSHI.
