Seafood You Harvest Yourself?

CraigC

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We are avid underwater hunters and speared quite a lot of fish when we used to dive a lot. Our favorites were hogfish, black grouper and mutton snapper. We also took red grouper and gag (grey) grouper on occasion. We also caught many spiny, Spanish, shovel nose and slipper lobster. I used to line fish when I was a lot younger. FW fishing is strictly catch and release.
 
When I lived in Port Arthur, the guy across the street from us had a 42-foot boat, and a son my age. We would go way offshore for three days to fish for red snapper. We would tie up down-current from an oil rig, which works as an artificial reef.

We would ice down the catch, and clean the fish on the way back to Port Arthur, tossing the guts and stuff over the stern, and the dolphins would follow us and eat what we discarded. Everything we caught and kept got eaten. The "trash fish" got tossed back in the water to live another day.

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