vis is usually better in the winter but rain and heavy winds can kill
it.... Jupiter has had a great run on Grouper this year. 2.5 hours from
Orlando

you can dive at Disney Quest for I think $150.   I'd like
to see them panic when you start spear fishing in front
of their tourists.....   would almost be worth seeing.

My buddy and I go off Cocoa and Daytona quite a bit during the warm months.
We do the Damocles and Lead wrecks, 20-11' miles east of Port Canaveral in
80'. A few years ago I was left in awe starring at a 500 lb. Yellow Fin
inside the pilot house of the Damocles, at the time I only had a little
JBL...since then I've bought a bazooka. We've shot plenty of gags and
snapper out there. I hope to get a few bugs out of Pelican Flats (20 miles
of limestone ledges running N&S) before the seasons out. I've tried to find
the ledge several times back when I had the loran but Patrick Air Force Base
messed up the accuracy and I missed it every time. From what I hear there
are some jumbo lobsters down there.

Off Daytona it's about the same. We dove the Liberty wreck about six times
last summer, I shot a 50 lb. grouper (got away) an a plethora of 10-15 lb.
Lots of the bridge rubble and culverts to dive for the bugs. I heard a story
of a chick who pulled up a 13 lb. lobster which took off her finger nail
when she accidentally put it in its mouth.

I will say its hard core diving. The viz is never more than 25-40 (although
the April day I saw the tuna was unlimited) feet and it ain't real perdy but
the fish look real good on the grill.

The last time we went out was when cold water of the Artic current thing
came down. Fricken freezing, that day the viz was 10 tops...spooky. I was
sitting on the New Smyrna Beach board walk in the middle of July and the
wind coming off the ocean was almost chilly.

I live in South Orlando. Starting in April the water temp should be
tolerable enough to handle. My boat is only 20' but three of us can tear it
up ok.

Let me know here, my e-mail address is bogus.

----- Original Message -----
From: "erdem" <ultanir_99@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups: rec.scuba.locations
Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 12:39 PM
Subject: spearfishing near Orlando