As monstrous as he looks in the pics he amazingly only weighed 77lbs on the scale that the guys had. Once again I need to get smacked for not following my own advice and bringing my own certified scale but somewhere in the 8 time zone changes I went through that week I think I lost my mind.
As I lined up for the shot on this guy he was just finning looking at me and then turned figuring out that I was something very, very bad. Too late.
The shot you can see in some of the pics was even with his eye and about 4 inches behind the top of the gill plate but at the downward angle must have just grazed the spine and came out the bottom edge of his opposite gill plate.
When I left him on the bottom and pushed hard for the surface 100+ feet above the fish was doing big hard circles on the bottom and by sheer luck and possibly the bungey float line combo I was using he didn’t get rocked up.
Heading out today again to the Gulf of Mexico with Big Yellowtail Snappers, African Pompano, possibly Red and Mutton Snappers on the menu. Going to give the groupers a break and cross my fingers that a big Cubera or some pelagics show up.
Enjoy the pics.
Cameron 
5 Responses to “Black Grouper 77lbs Freediving Cameron Kirkconnell”
What a trophy Black! He definately was more than 77lbs more like pushing 85+ ! WOW. Where did you shoot him again? General area, no GPS #s needed
That is still an incredible black, expecially for freediving!!!
nice fish kirk !
I guessed 80, pretty close. Absolutely incredible fish Cam, you have accomplished some amazing things in your life but thats gotta be near the top.
I think your scale is broken cuz that fish looks way heavier than 77lbs