For those of you that make trips to the beach for critters...
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lifesworksataol
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iam cert and have a boat also - i dont want to spend the money to go to the keys - but iam in for anywhere close - thanks :-D
jamcdougall
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Okay:
It seems we have a few that want to go;
Collecting in the keys can be real tricky as most of it is protected.
You have to be a real good navagator and able to prove where you got your catch.
Sabiastian is not that far from orlando(An hour an a half maybe)
How about a weekend camping trip and we chip in on expences for the boat?
How many will the boat comfortably take?
Some could be on shore collecting or diving ...
Lets just do it...
The more planning the more fun though...
Mac
It seems we have a few that want to go;
Collecting in the keys can be real tricky as most of it is protected.
You have to be a real good navagator and able to prove where you got your catch.
Sabiastian is not that far from orlando(An hour an a half maybe)
How about a weekend camping trip and we chip in on expences for the boat?
How many will the boat comfortably take?
Some could be on shore collecting or diving ...
Lets just do it...
The more planning the more fun though...
Mac
jamcdougall
New member
First Off:
How many we got?
A lot of questions have to be answered after we figure that
out.
This will take forever in a chat room!
I WILL HELP>
The key word there is ---HELP--
I have done this B-4 and wound up doing most or all the work.
This will be a group effort or I am out now.
The best way to put this together is to have a meeting at someones house or a local eatery.
JUST A FEW QUESTIONS TO BE ANSWERED.
Do we have a boat?
What will that cost?
How many people are actually comming...NO MAYBES
Where are we going?
Anybody got a good spot?
Will we be camping?
How many nights?
What food will we need?
What equipment is available?
Who all has a fishing Lic?
How about keeping the critters alive while we collect?
SOOOOOOOOO !
What Now?.............Mac
How many we got?
A lot of questions have to be answered after we figure that
out.
This will take forever in a chat room!
I WILL HELP>
The key word there is ---HELP--
I have done this B-4 and wound up doing most or all the work.
This will be a group effort or I am out now.
The best way to put this together is to have a meeting at someones house or a local eatery.
JUST A FEW QUESTIONS TO BE ANSWERED.
Do we have a boat?
What will that cost?
How many people are actually comming...NO MAYBES
Where are we going?
Anybody got a good spot?
Will we be camping?
How many nights?
What food will we need?
What equipment is available?
Who all has a fishing Lic?
How about keeping the critters alive while we collect?
SOOOOOOOOO !
What Now?.............Mac
jamcdougall
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I ASK:
Who wants to put together a collection trip and
PARTICIPATE IN PUTTING IT TOGETHER PM me or
email me at... reefkpr@earthlink.net.....
Mac
Who wants to put together a collection trip and
PARTICIPATE IN PUTTING IT TOGETHER PM me or
email me at... reefkpr@earthlink.net.....
Mac
DJChesnutRabbit
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If it's not too late, my wife and I would be interested in this trip.
-Rabbit
-Rabbit
DJChesnutRabbit
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We'd be interested. We went to Sebastian Inlet about a month ago looking around. It was alot of fun and would be cool with a group of people.
mfp4073
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I think I am confused. I had orginally posted this because I wanted to get a group to go over to the cocoa, merritt island, titusville area. But never heard about a trip over there. I still want to go do that, but only a day trip as I have NO time to take more than a day trip.
DJChesnutRabbit
New member
Sorry, I wasn't implying going anywhere in perticular, just that we did that. I'm cool with anywhere in Brevard co.
mfp4073
New member
Ok, I think first we need someone or several people to offer to take us and show us around their "spots". Do we have any offers for a tour guide?
Next we need to find when that person is available and dovetail with that. Then those people can take other "trips" in the future with people that could not make it the frist time.
Next we need to find when that person is available and dovetail with that. Then those people can take other "trips" in the future with people that could not make it the frist time.
Sebastian Inlet
Sebastian Inlet
Hi,
I'm one of the new guys (Jeff) that joined at the January meeting.
I dive off of Sebastian Inlet and have a number of spots marked out there.
The inlet itself has a protected tide pool area where you can find crabs and small fish. For shore bound collecting, you could find critters on both the north and south side. The north side has the large protected tide pool with a rock sea wall; the south side of the inlet also has some smaller tide pool areas. I would recommend planning the actual collecting during a slack tide. The incoming and outgoing currents can get pretty strong if you venture out of the protected tide pool.
On the river side of the inlet is a large sandbar with grassy channels. During low tide, parts of the sandbar are exposed, and loaded with hermits. You would need a canoe, kayak, or boat to get out there.
On the ocean side, there is a long worm rock reef line that stretches from south of Sebastian to Vero Beach. There are multiple lines in 8-20 ft. Since this is in the tidal zone, the visibility is usually minimal unless you have a few calm days in a row. We go lobster diving in this area quite a bit, and I've only seen one day of top to bottom visibility in the past three years. It's usually about 3 feet.
If you go further off shore, there's a 40' reef off of Vero, and lots of structure in the 60-80 foot range off of Sebastian. Again, visibility isn't like South Florida, but good enough to see what's in and around the area.
I've seen a wide range of critters out there: monster hermits, arrow crabs, shrimp, urchins, star fish, sea cucumbers, large spiney lobster (8lbs +), gobeys, angels, and other ornamentals.
I have a 24' center console that I keep over in Brevard (Suntree) with twin outboards. If you'd like to get a collecting trip together I'd be happy to join you.
Doing the inlet, sand bar, or near shore stuff (out to 40') is easy. I have four strokes and the gas burn is minimal. If a group wanted to do some of the deeper sites, we could split gas.
I have a SW license and usually dive nitrox. My boat has a GPS chart plotter, fish finder, VHF, and all the safety gear. It also has ~ 30 gallon live well that can keep most anything alive the whole day.
If we're just doing an inlet trip, I could take 6 people out and around the sand bars (you generally walk up to the tide pool areas). If we're diving, 4 divers is probably the practical limit with gear and tanks.
Two of the current residents of my tank came from a tide pool on the South side of the inlet ...
<a href="http://photobucket.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s47/jbascle/redhermit.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting"></a>
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Both of these guys started out as wee babies a few months back, and now they both easily doubled in size.
I also brought back a baby blue crab which promptly decimated most of my hermits and smaller fish. Note to Self: Don't do that again.
Sebastian Inlet
Hi,
I'm one of the new guys (Jeff) that joined at the January meeting.
I dive off of Sebastian Inlet and have a number of spots marked out there.
The inlet itself has a protected tide pool area where you can find crabs and small fish. For shore bound collecting, you could find critters on both the north and south side. The north side has the large protected tide pool with a rock sea wall; the south side of the inlet also has some smaller tide pool areas. I would recommend planning the actual collecting during a slack tide. The incoming and outgoing currents can get pretty strong if you venture out of the protected tide pool.
On the river side of the inlet is a large sandbar with grassy channels. During low tide, parts of the sandbar are exposed, and loaded with hermits. You would need a canoe, kayak, or boat to get out there.
On the ocean side, there is a long worm rock reef line that stretches from south of Sebastian to Vero Beach. There are multiple lines in 8-20 ft. Since this is in the tidal zone, the visibility is usually minimal unless you have a few calm days in a row. We go lobster diving in this area quite a bit, and I've only seen one day of top to bottom visibility in the past three years. It's usually about 3 feet.
If you go further off shore, there's a 40' reef off of Vero, and lots of structure in the 60-80 foot range off of Sebastian. Again, visibility isn't like South Florida, but good enough to see what's in and around the area.
I've seen a wide range of critters out there: monster hermits, arrow crabs, shrimp, urchins, star fish, sea cucumbers, large spiney lobster (8lbs +), gobeys, angels, and other ornamentals.
I have a 24' center console that I keep over in Brevard (Suntree) with twin outboards. If you'd like to get a collecting trip together I'd be happy to join you.
Doing the inlet, sand bar, or near shore stuff (out to 40') is easy. I have four strokes and the gas burn is minimal. If a group wanted to do some of the deeper sites, we could split gas.
I have a SW license and usually dive nitrox. My boat has a GPS chart plotter, fish finder, VHF, and all the safety gear. It also has ~ 30 gallon live well that can keep most anything alive the whole day.
If we're just doing an inlet trip, I could take 6 people out and around the sand bars (you generally walk up to the tide pool areas). If we're diving, 4 divers is probably the practical limit with gear and tanks.
Two of the current residents of my tank came from a tide pool on the South side of the inlet ...
<a href="http://photobucket.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s47/jbascle/redhermit.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting"></a>
<a href="http://photobucket.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s47/jbascle/sgtmajor.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting"></a>
Both of these guys started out as wee babies a few months back, and now they both easily doubled in size.
I also brought back a baby blue crab which promptly decimated most of my hermits and smaller fish. Note to Self: Don't do that again.
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